The United Nationalist Alliance on Tuesday courted votes in Compostela Valley, which is recovering from the devastation wrought by recent natural disasters, but shunned evacuation centers.
Palm oil plantations in Mindanao have been added to a growing list of factors to blame for some of the worst cases of flooding that struck the island and for disasters of magnitudes unknown to the island in the past, like the storms “Sendong” and “Pablo.”
Police have filed charges against organizers of the Jan. 15 protest rally by more than 5,000 typhoon victims in Montevista, Compostela Valley, who are demanding more aid and a stop to logging.
The United Nations launched an appeal Friday for more international aid to help nearly a million people in the Philippines as they recover from last year’s deadliest typhoon in the world.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman denied that the bunkhouses that her agency is building in typhoon-devastated areas are overpriced.
The Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) stepped up relief efforts in typhoon-lashed Mindanao, distributing 5,600 family emergency shelter kits to remote and hard-to-access areas.
SMART Communications and Philippine Red Cross Iloilo have once more joined forces to assist the typhoon victims in Iloilo.
The roads have been cleared of fallen trees and debris. People in Davao Oriental have started to, literally, pick up the pieces of their homes shattered by Typhoon “Pablo” a few weeks ago.
Nearly one million people remain in need of food assistance while relief organizations grapple to provide shelter to thousands amid funding gaps a month after a powerful typhoon swept through provinces rarely hit by storms in Mindanao.
From the municipal grounds, a group of women hurriedly walked to Saint Mary’s College after seeing a truck loaded with relief goods. They returned empty-handed.
The amount of damage to crops and infrastructure brought by Typhoon “Quinta” in Western Visayas has reached at least P136 million.
The past few Christmases in this country have seen a rising number of Filipinos being displaced by typhoons and related calamities due to the worsening climate change phenomenon experienced around the globe.
Sen. Loren Legarda has called on President Benigno Aquino III to sign immediately the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act amid reports of human traffickers preying on women and children in the typhoon-stricken areas of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental.
