Cebu City fire leaves 50 families homeless
AT LEAST 50 families were left homeless yesterday after fire destroyed their houses in barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City.
AT LEAST 50 families were left homeless yesterday after fire destroyed their houses in barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City.
Police say an ailing homeless man attached a note seeking help to his dog’s harness and sent the animal out in hopes someone would read the message.
At least 54,000 families in areas devastated by Typhoon “Pablo” are still homeless two months after the storm destroyed their homes and sources of livelihood, according to a foreign official helping in an international effort to provide aid to the storm survivors.
Following the signing of agreement last Sept. 5, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) and the Missionaries of the Poor (MOP) broke ground last Nov. 21, 2011, a 4,500-sq.m. lot where a home for the elders and persons with disabilities will be built.
The Cebu City government will be working on giving its homeless people a decent shelter above their heads in the next five years.
BAGUIO CITY—The success of the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program will always draw suspicion from people who meet homeless families living in Metro Manila’s streets or the mentally ill drenched and shivering in Baguio’s rains. This is a sector of the very poor who could not be included in national household surveys that help [...]
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