The sea has always been Charito Badong’s lifeline. Fishing allowed the father of seven to feed his family and earn enough money to send his children to school. But when devastating Typhoon […]
Adopt-A-Fisherman helps survivors
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Resilient Filipinos still struggle a month after typhoon
MANILA — Despite a massive mobilization of assistance from countries around the world, a representative for a U.N. relief agency says emergency aid remains “in the red” in the Philippines one month […]
Searching for loved ones in typhoon’s devastation
MANILA, Philippines — An international aid effort that included helicopter drops from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington ferried food and water to areas that have seen little of either since a […]
Four Haiyan stories of fear, the fight for survival
Four people caught in Typhoon Haiyan in recall the horror, the fear, the fight for survival brought about by Typhoon Haiyan. A GRANDMOTHER’S LOSS Narcissa Abordo, a 65-year-old grandmother from Tacloban, awoke […]
Doctors overwhelmed by sick, needy in Philippines
MANILA — Hundreds of injured people, pregnant women, children and the elderly have been crowding into a small building behind the control tower of this city’s airport, one of the few places […]
Desperation grows among Philippine survivors of Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — Drenched by rain and increasingly desperate, typhoon-stricken Filipinos rushed fences and pleaded with guards Tuesday at the battered airport serving as a tenuous lifeline to an international aid effort confronted […]
Philippines sifting through horror in Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced a huge relief effort Monday as bodies lay in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police guarded stores to prevent people from […]
Philippine typhoon: Tales of heartbreak, courage; hunger, anarchy
MANILA — Each story is more heartbreaking than the last; tales of the courage and good fortune it took to survive amid utter destruction, balanced in many cases by the last glimpse […]
“Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’
Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’ Click To View Photos MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to […]
Typhoon Haiyan- Eyewitness
MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to be “a lovely town — very local, not many foreigners. We […]
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