It may not be immediately clear, but this is a photo of a fishing boat destroyed by the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in 2014, Ruby (international name: Hagupit). This super typhoon hit the Philippines in early December and forced the evacuation of millions of Filipinos. It made landfall in the Visayas, hitting many of the areas that...
Meet the Calvadores family of Garawon, Eastern Samar, who lost five family members to Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013. On the same month a year later, father of the family Edwin received a tricycle from British American Tobacco. This lets him to go back to his original livelihood of delivering bread for a bakery in the town...
Millie Kilayko, NVC President, posted about one of NVC’s Eastern Samar beneficiary communities when Typhoon Ruby made landfall in the province: “My heart bleeds at this sight. I could not help but shed a few tears. Two weeks ago, I took a photo of this sari-sari store in Brgy Garawon, Hernani, Eastern Samar. The colorful balloons...
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