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  • Aid Worker Diary: Overcoming grief and loss after Typhoon Bopha
    13 February 2013 - 10:53am
    ‘When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life a thousand reasons to smile.’ That’s the motto 25-year-old Marietes Dayaguit lives by after she was forced from her home when Tropical Storm Washi swept through Mindanao in 2011 causing massive flooding and destruction.  Tes...
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  • The Philippines: Displaced families struggle to rebuild lives
    8 June 2012 - 11:05am
    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...
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  • The HC Interview: The Philippines
    26 April 2012 - 4:13pm
    The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. One third of its population of 94.9 million people live below the poverty line and are vulnerable to the typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that plague the country. In 2011, there were 21 natural disasters in the...
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