Community-based Disaster Management Conference 2021: “During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gaining Strength while Overcoming New Challenges” The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center Foundation Inc. (CDRC) recently convened a National Conference on Community-based Disaster Management (CBDM) titled “During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gaining Strength while Overcoming New Challenges.” It was held on June 05, 2021, at the Cocoon Boutique...
CDRC conducts virtual tabletop exercise for the ‘Big One’ The Philippines frequently experiences seismic and volcanic tremors since it is located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. In recent months, we experienced a series of earthquakes that shook various parts...
Sheba Babac is an active DPC member of Tanza-Timawa 2, Iloilo City and thus sees how her fellow urban poor strive to survive every day. Furthermore, their experiences have enabled them to grow and cope with other problems that they are, and will be, facing. Tanza-Timawa 2 is a community inside a cemetery, which is...
Vivian Asong, locally known as Nay Viv, was the DPC member chosen by PCDR to be trained on CBDM Training of Trainers last March 9-13, 2020, along with the EnCap 2 project staff. Nay Viv was chosen for that activity because she is an active urban poor organizer and leader under the Katilingban sang Imol...
