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November 13, 2013
CARE and ACCORD staff are currently on the ground to assess the needs and provide life-saving aid to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. CARE’s Sandra Bulling has been deployed to the outskirts of the coastal town…
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April 2, 2013
Johari Cali is a playful boy with a shy smile. He is a Grade 4 pupil at the Mandulog Elementary School. He lives in Purok 21 of barangay Mandulog. Purok 21, together with Purok 18 and…
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April 2, 2013
Jalila Anugod, at 19 years old, is a widow with a 6-month old baby girl. Her husband died months ago. Jalila lives with her in laws who helped her support her baby. She was all smiles as she crossed…
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June 3, 2012
During the handover activities of the ASCEND Project, stories were plentiful of important lessons learnt, and of changes of great consequence. Talk about the end of the project, about exit strategies and responsible handover started as early as the inception…
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June 3, 2012
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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June 3, 2012
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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June 3, 2012
“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 municipality that is frequently battered by strong typhoons….
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June 3, 2012
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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June 3, 2012
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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June 3, 2012
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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