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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that foreign donations for Yolanda victims unaudited FALSE

By VERA Files | Dec 09, 2021 1:58 PM

Based on its 2014 report, COA created audit teams that focused on the sources and receipt of foreign aid, the release of local funds by the budget department and other offices, the inter-agency transfer of funds, procurement and logistics, and the distribution of goods and services.

COA, Noynoy Aquino, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

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Wiser and stronger after surviving typhoon Haiyan

By Luis Liwanag | Nov 25, 2021 1:22 PM

Time has not erased from the mind of Nick and Doris “Chai” Quieta what happened on November 8, 2013. Nor has it healed the pain and suffering that typhoon Haiyan brought to their families and that of more than 7, 000 others who perished in that tragedy.

Haiyan, Leyte, November 8 2013, Tacloban, typhoon Haiyan, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: These photos are from Super Typhoon Yolanda, NOT Rolly

By VERA Files | Nov 03, 2020 7:15 PM

They were captured by Reuters photographer Erik de Castro on Nov. 10, 2013.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: This townhouse is NOT a Duterte housing project

By VERA Files | Aug 18, 2020 6:32 PM

It’s a two-storey townhome in a private subdivision in Cebu, priced at P2.17 million.

Aquino, Duterte, Housing, Yolanda

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Buried relief goods NOT for Typhoon Yolanda victims

By VERA Files | May 29, 2020 1:10 AM

This post is false. Don’t believe it.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Netizens MISLEAD with 4-year-old report on alleged Yolanda fund ‘corruption’

By VERA Files | Oct 17, 2019 1:43 AM

The report is over four years old.

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Four years on, Yolanda victims still lack decent homes

By Maria Feona Imperial | Nov 09, 2017 12:25 PM

Survivors are still clamoring for decent and livable homes amid government’s continuing efforts to rebuild communities.

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Sex traffickers prey on ‘Yolanda’ children

Nov 10, 2014 6:00 AM

Text and photos by AVIGAIL M. OLARTE TACLOBAN CITY – On the bed is where she could end it, she thought. She’s 16, he’s six months old. Alyssa (not her real name) was sold for sex one night last year. On board a docked ship in Leyte, in a locked room, a Japanese repeatedly raped […]

Children, Tacloban, Trafficking, Yolanda

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3 faces of post- Yolanda Tacloban PNoy didn’t see

Nov 08, 2014 7:03 PM

By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON TACLOBAN, Leyte –President Aquino marked the first anniversary of the super typhoon Yolanda (international name, Haiyan) one day earlier in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, where the typhoon made its first landfall early morning of Nov. 8, 2013. It was in Tacloban in Leyte that Yolanda wrought the most damage. Leyte residents […]

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Advocates urge adoption of child-friendly policies after disasters

Nov 08, 2014 9:22 AM

By JAKE SORIANO A YEAR after the country was struck by the deadliest typhoon ever to hit land, child advocates are pushing for measures aimed at protecting the rights and welfare of children in the aftermath of disasters and other emergencies. “It is important that we take this opportunity to push for policy change to […]

Children, Disasters, Haiyan, Yolanda