Thanking before some 19 representatives of various international development organizations, DSWD Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman reported that as of December 12 of this year, the agency has already distributed some 3,009,076 rice and food packs to 280, 968 displaced families of typhoon Yolanda. It has also given out non -food items to the victims, such continue reading : Secretary Dinky Soliman says three M food and rice packages already distributed to disaster victims.

Tacloban City, Leyte – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said that it is now sorting the damaged relief goods that were recently transported here from Cebu City on board MV Carmen. The food packs, which contain rice, canned goods, noodles and coffee, were damaged in transit. However, there are several relief goods continue reading : DSWD asks LGUs to report damaged goods

Mark Tupaz (not his real name) is 13 years old and has never been in school after his first grade. “Waray kami kwarta pan-eskwela,” (“We have no money for education.”) was all the boy could say. All his life, he has been helping his mother earn a living by doing laundry work for somebody else. continue reading : Finally, a chance for education !

Like the grasses in their plain and uncomplicated existence, which survived the wrath of super typhoon Yolanda, they too shall thrive. Above is a statement from the teary-eyed Flora del Monte, 42 years old, a Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program partner beneficiary of Bgry. 88 in San Jose District, Tacloban City. Flora’s family is one of continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya partner beneficiaries fight the terrors of Yolanda

Sto. Niño SPED Center, one of the 37 temporary shelters in Tacloban City for the victims of typhoon Yolanda, accommodates 44 families from Barangay 6 and 6-A. One of them is the family of Leonardo Abobo, Jr., a beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program who has survived the said tragedy. Leonardo, who has just continue reading : Hope in an evacuation center for typhoon Yolanda victims

Supertyphoon Yolanda caused great devastation to the city of Tacloban,  forcing  some 3, 243 families to flee from their homes and stay in evacuation camps.  Others remained in their totally – wrecked houses while the rest,  to Manila or Cebu or elsewhere. To date, there are 39 evacuation centers in the city.  The DSWD takes continue reading : INSIDE EVACUATION CAMPS, WOMEN TELL THEIR STORIES

Innocent she may seem,  but she understands fully how it is to be of help to her mother who is a single parent to four children. Jovelle is among the 106 school-aged children who evacuated to Kapangian Central Elementary in Tacloban City. Noticeably, she is a disciplined child as she remains inside the classroom where continue reading : Insights of a child from Pantawid Pamilya to Yolanda