In Bontoc and other parts of Mountain Province, the spirit of community cooperation still prevails. Community members work together in planting or harvesting in one’s ricefield, moving to another member’s ricefield the next day, until all the ob-obbo members’ ricefields…
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Leonora Silawan, Noel Casungcad, Jose Molin, and Generoso Aguila from Barangay Balatasan have sold a lot of crabs during the recent fiesta of Calabanga municipality. A month before, they bought 103 pieces of crabs weighing about 200 grams each on…
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Mainstreaming DRR-CCA into local governance is good governance “The sweetest reward is a resilient community.” This is how Mayor Evelyn Yu summarized her experience working with CARE and partners. She is the municipal mayor of Calabanga in Camarines Sur, a…
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The shoreline along the east of Cagsao, a coastal village in Calabanga, Camarines Sur, is thickly covered with mangrove trees of almost 2 meters high. In less than three years, these trees will be fully grown for the community to…
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Paltic Elementary School, in Dingalan municipality, lies at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains facing the Pacific Ocean. In 2004, the school witnessed a massive landslide that claimed hundreds of lives and properties in the village. Following the disaster,…
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Barangay Chairperson Elizalde Miones, “Kap Zaldy” to many, takes his turn in tending the sari-sari store. He records in a logbook every sale of rice, sugar, cooking oil and other prime commodities. He belongs to one of the 11 teams…
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The bells rang at rapid intervals. Women, children, youth, elderly, and men are making their way to the identified pick-up points within the village. Bringing with them some food, drinking water, clothing, blankets and sleeping mats, they wait for the…
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Four tropical cyclones hit the Philippines within one month, causing untold suffering and losses among several million Filipinos. On 26 September, tropical cyclone Ketsana swept across the main Philippine island, Luzon, bringing a month’s worth of rain in just 12…
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The ASCEND project is a merger of CARE Nederland’s ACCORD-3 and Christian Aid’s BDRSIP-2. ACCORD-3 aims to consolidate and build sustainability in the DRR capacity building of targeted high-risk communities, schools and local government units. BDRSIP-2 aims to scale up…
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Tropical cyclone Meari (local name Falcon) triggered heavy flooding in Central Luzon and four other regions in Luzon Island. Some 1,700,085 persons coming from 370,459 families were affected by this flooding event. Direct economic costs as a result of the…
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