In the early hours of 12 June, Melanie Taguon was woken by her eldest child and found her house in Central Mindanao surrounded by raging waters. She immediately carried her smaller children to higher ground. Her seven-year-old son, Kenneth, was able to swim out of the house through the flood water. But within an hour, the...
The World Humanitarian Day (WHD) 2012 campaign is being hailed as the most successful yet due to its massive social outreach, which resonated in the world’s most disaster-prone region: Asia and the Pacific.
This year’s campaign, which was launched in advance of WHD (19 August), made social media history by...
Six months ago, more than 400,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao when Tropical Storm Washi hit the area. Some people moved in with family members, while others lived in emergency evacuation centres. At the height of the crisis, about 70,000 displaced people lived in 55...
Kaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and the Moro Islamic...
The local authorities in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the Philippines have taken the lead in the cluster system as the humanitarian community continues to help people who were forced from their homes by Tropical Storm Washi. The cluster system is aimed at improving the delivery of humanitarian aid after...
24 September 2012 - 12:17pmIn the early hours of 12 June, Melanie Taguon was woken by her eldest child and found her house in Central Mindanao surrounded by raging waters. She immediately carried her smaller children to higher ground. Her seven-year-old son, Kenneth, was able to swim out of the house through the flood water. But within an hour, the...
6 September 2012 - 2:23pmThe World Humanitarian Day (WHD) 2012 campaign is being hailed as the most successful yet due to its massive social outreach, which resonated in the world’s most disaster-prone region: Asia and the Pacific. This year’s campaign, which was launched in advance of WHD (19 August), made social media history by...
15 June 2012 - 2:49pmSix months ago, more than 400,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao when Tropical Storm Washi hit the area. Some people moved in with family members, while others lived in emergency evacuation centres. At the height of the crisis, about 70,000 displaced people lived in 55...
8 June 2012 - 11:05amKaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and the Moro Islamic...
31 May 2012 - 2:42pmThe local authorities in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the Philippines have taken the lead in the cluster system as the humanitarian community continues to help people who were forced from their homes by Tropical Storm Washi. The cluster system is aimed at improving the delivery of humanitarian aid after...