Months later after typhoon Odette, several communities in Southern Leyte are still reeling from the damages they sustained from the storm. Barangay Tigbao is one of the remote villages in Libagon City in Southern Leyte and also one of the hardest hit by the typhoon Odette when it struck the country in December last year....
Elizabeth Yayen She is a 64-year-old woman from Barangay Magara in Roxas, Palawan. She lives with her husband, who is a person with a disability, and their grandchild. They make pawid from nipa palm leaves (kanipaan) and earns PhP150-200 a day. Their house was totally damaged and her family got separated during and after the...
“Luoya namon ani, unsaon naman namo ang among pangabuhian?” (We’re so pitiful. How are we going to survive?) – An expression of undeniable distress by Diego Arong, a 45-year-old fisherman and farmer, whose motorized boat got destroyed during the wrath of Typhoon Rai (Local Name: Odette). Diego’s fishing boat was his main source to make...
Situation Overview Typhoon Odette (Rai) hit the eastern Philippines on Thursday, 16th of December, ravaging islands and coastal communities in the eastern part of the country and carving out a path of destruction, flooding in towns and cities across the country. Its nearly three weeks after the devastation of the typhoon Odette which made a...
