Topic: Typhoon Haiyan
Tacloban, one year later
November 10, 2014 ·
It was a painful and difficult story for Josephine, 15 years old, and her father Jose to tell. I sat on a small plastic chair in their small, one-roomed house that they built from the wreckage of Haiyan (Yolanda), the greatest typhoon ever to hit land. Josephine sat close to her father who was aged beyond his years. When I arrived in their little home made of plywood sheets with Francis Bermido Jr., the Preda executive director, Jose was repairing an electric motor. It was his only source of livelihood for his surviving children.
Read More...EIGHT MONTHS AFTER TYPHOON HAIYAN
July 18, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen In the middle of the rubble and dirt of the aftermath of the most devastating typhoon to hit the Philippines last November 8, 2013, we found children still able to smile, standing as they did with ragged torn T-shirts and dirty faces and legs in the mud. They were covered in […]
Read More...Path to Freedom
July 15, 2014 ·
by: Father Shay Cullen July/August 2014 Far East Magazine (Magazine of the Columban Missionaries) As if the upheaval, death and destruction of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) was not enough suffering for up to a million survivors, we are trying to protect the children and orphans among them from exploiters and traffickers. For example, Reggie, 17, is […]
Read More...Tacloban police rescue 5 minors from suspected traffickers
May 26, 2014 ·
BY RAPPLER.COM POSTED ON 05/21/2014 MANILA, Philippines Tacloban City police detained four people for allegedly trafficking young girls coming from families affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) just before Holy Week on April 2014. A Tacloban City policewoman and an officer from the city’s Social Welfare and Development Office (SWDO) intercepted the five children, aged 10 to […]
Read More...Anti-trafficking seminars and child protection seminars conducted for parents and children in Tacloban city Mar-Apr 2014
May 23, 2014 ·
Click Here >>> Anti-trafficking seminars and child protection seminars conducted for parents and children in Tacloban city Mar-Apr 2014
Read More...Education team continues awareness raising and anti-trafficking seminars in Tacloban Feb. 2014
May 23, 2014 ·
Click Here >>> Education team continues awareness raising and anti-trafficking seminars in Tacloban Feb. 2014
Read More...Preda team conducts child protection seminar in Tacloban city, Jan. 2014
May 23, 2014 ·
Click Here >>> Preda team conducts child protection seminar in Tacloban city, Jan. 2014
Read More...PREDA launches anti-trafficking awareness building seminars and therapy for survivors.
May 23, 2014 ·
Click Here >>> PREDA launches anti-trafficking awareness building seminars and therapy for survivors.
Read More...Puppet Show and Relief Operation at Tent city Evacuation Center, Pasay Dec.10,13
May 23, 2014 ·
Click Here >>> Puppet Show and Relief Operation at Tent city Evacuation Center, Pasay Dec.10,13
Read More...CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US
May 20, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc The sights, sounds, and smells that assailed me as I was walking through the devastated chaos and destruction of Tacloban city in the Philippines last year, soon after the most powerful storm ever to hit land, made me realize that this was the future. This utter devastation wrecked by a […]
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