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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Tropical Storm Washi (Philippine name: Sendong) brought record rainfall in Mindanao and the Visayas, estimated at 10-25 mm per hour within its 400 km diameter, triggering flash floods and landslides. Washi affected at least 739 barangay (villages) in eight cities…
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CARE was implementing an emergency response project in Central Luzon Region in response to tropical cyclone Falcon (international name Meari) when two successive typhoons, Pedring (Nesat) and Quiel (Nalgae), affected the same region, as well as Ilocos, Cordillera, Cagayan Valley…
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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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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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