By: Leyte Center for Development, Inc. (#LCDe) 22 May 2019 San Isidro is a fourth class municipality in Leyte, some 105 kilometers northwest of Tacloban City. Majority of the more than 31,000 people here derive their income from farming and fishing. Life is difficult for most of the population who are tenant farmers and fisher...
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Eastern Samar Earthquake 2019
Situation Report No. 1 25 April 2019, 7:00am Leyte Center for Development, Inc. (#LCDe) Background: On April 23, 2019 around 1:37 PM, a magnitude 6.5 #earthquake jolted the Island of Leyte and Samar. According to PHIVOLCS, the strongest shaking was registered at PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale (PEIS) VI (Very strong) in San Julian, #Eastern Samar;...
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TS #UrdujaPH Situation Report # 1
Samar and Leyte after TS Urduja Situation Report # 1 21 December 2017 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY On 12 December 2017, a low pressure area formed east of Mindanao into a tropical depression. Intensifying into a tropical storm, Urduja (International code name Kai-Tak) made landfall on 16 December over the province of San Policarpio, Eastern Samar. Because...
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My experiences as an intern in CDRC
Sitting alone on my flight to Manila, I wasn’t sure that an internship in a completely unknown NGO in a country I had never been to before, was the best decision I had ever made. But I was already on the plane, which meant that there was no turning back. I was offered two other...