Save the Children Philippines stressed that seven years since the enactment of the Comprehensive Emergency Program for Children, Filipinos have yet to see its effects.
Prioritize children’s welfare during calamities — child welfare group
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Students condemn Duterte’s ‘criminal negligence’
“Filipino youth’s strike back against Duterte’s criminal negligence today could also be seen as a parallelism to the Czechoslovakian students’ fight against the Nazi occupation.”
No calm before the storm: How foreign environmental plunder triggered disastrous PH typhoons
The national government is not only guilty for its criminal neglect of the Filipinos ravaged by the typhoons. It is also guilty for deliberately defunding the 2012 Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project NOAH), which was supposedly aimed to develop technologies and enhance efficient disaster mitigation plans.
Probe reported dumped rice, relief goods in Leyte – Haiyan survivors
“This is a scandalous squandering of an important commodity and need at a time when the region has been officially proclaimed by the national government as the poorest in the country.”
The bamboo curse
By JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC Bulatlat.com Resilience is the curse of the bamboo. Suffer the storm, swim through the floods. Bear the stench of corpses and the hunger that does not go away with praise. Forget the greed that levels mountains and changes wind and seas. Forget the president who walks out, Forget the aid…
Disaster Philippines
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Nearly 2,500 people — 2,360 to be exact — died in 2012 in natural disasters in the Philippines, says the nongovernmental Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), putting it ahead of all other countries in the world including China, which was second with 771 deaths. But because “only”…
Groups slam Aquino government for blaming the poor for the floods
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The lack of disaster preparedness, wanton logging and mining activities, dam owners’ greed, failure to de-silt Laguna Bay and other waterways, and unplanned urban development – these are the main reasons for the heavy flooding,” – KMU
Politika ng relief operations, pilantropiya’t redempsyon
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Nagiging standard routine na itong kalakaran: magpapabaya ang gobyerno, iaasa sa at mamamayagpag ang pribadong negosyo (kasama ang iligal na pagmimina’t pagtrotroso, at kalabisan ng real estate developers) ang pagpapaunlad (re: komersyalisasyon) ng infrastruktura at publiko serbisyo, magkakabagyo (kailangang labis ang efekto sa Metro Manila para magkaroon ng pambansang dimensyon…
Having to rebuild their lives again after the floods
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Getting no support from either the national or local governments after Typhoon Ondoy in 2009 inundated their homes, they were able to, piece-by-piece, rebuild their homes and their lives. And now again, their homes and meager belongings were swept away by the floods.
Monsoon blues
Monsoon blues (Photos by Ace R. Moradante and Medel V. Hernani / davaotoday.com)
Kapit-kamay, Tulong sa Bayan relief operations sa Angono
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com Intoy, ipinagkaloob ng tatay sa mga nasa evacuation center ang iyong mga pinagliitan: ang sapatos na unang sumapo sa iyong bigat noong pinag-aaralang mamaybay at lumakad ang mga bolang nagpatahan sa iyong iyak at nagpatalbog sa puso ko ng iyong inosente, malulutong na tawa at halakhak ang mga damit na…