Clutching Philippine and American flags, hundreds of pupils from this typhoon-devastated town greeted officials of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) who came to their school on Friday to distribute some P1.2 million worth of school supplies.
The Philippine Army sent about 50,000 shoeboxes containing school supplies to two Mindanao provinces on Thursday, its grandest Project Shoebox yet.
A tattered United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) tent and makeshift buildings cobbled from scavenged materials are the new classrooms for some 400 elementary pupils at Andap village here as the new school year opens Monday.
The government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (Iacat) on Saturday said it had sent a team to the Caraga and Davao regions following reports that human trafficking syndicates were preying on the communities there affected by Typhoon “Pablo.”
The government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (Iacat) on Saturday said it had sent a team to the Caraga and Davao regions following reports that human trafficking syndicates were preying on the communities there affected by Typhoon “Pablo.”
The government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (Iacat) said Saturday it sent a team to the Caraga and Davao regions in Mindanao following reports that human smuggling syndicates were preying on communities affected by Typhoon Pablo.
For survivors of Typhoon “Pablo,” election also means payback time. In Poo, an islet off the coast of Barangay (village) Kinablangan here, residents said they would not vote for candidates and politicians who are involved in logging and mining activities.
Victims of typhoon Pablo here do not believe that the outcome of the election would change their situation. Neither do they expect that they can leave the tent city after new officials have been elected.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Southern Mindanao said it would establish makeshift voting centers in areas hardest hit by Typhoon “Pablo” because flattened school buildings, used as voting centers in the past, were still to be rebuilt.
Romeo, 69, has already accepted the fact that his house and coconut farm were destroyed by Typhoon “Pablo.” Besides, he admits, almost everyone in his neighborhood in the village of Bobonao suffered the same fate.
The Commission on Elections is to put up makeshift voting centers in areas hardest hit by Typhoon Pablo last December as school buildings that were flattened still have to be rebuilt, a local election official said.
Villagers protesting the alleged hoarding of rice for
Typhoon “Pablo” survivors by the province’s governor barricaded a street here for at least three hours on Tuesday, demanding the release of the rice.
Villagers protesting the alleged hoarding of rice for Typhoon “Pablo” survivors by the province’s governor barricaded a street here for at least three hours on Tuesday, demanding the release of the rice.
