By DEE AYROSO
Tags: #UlyssesPH
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.
‘#UlyssesPH worse than Ondoy’ – Marikina residents
“This is worse than Ondoy. The pandemic still rages on, which makes it even more difficult for us.” — Marikina resident
Netizens use social media to ask for help, donations for #UlyssesPH victims
Netizens utilized the social media to disseminate posts of families who are in need of help or needed to be rescued.
Non-profit school for Marikina’s poor submerged in flood water
Relita Malundras said it was heartbreaking to see school supplies and learning materials being swept away by the rampaging flood. Most of these were donated to the school years ago and have been used by generations of students.