Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez and wife, Councilor Cristina G. Romualdez, led in welcoming Margareta Wahlstrom, the United Nation secretary general state representative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction during her visit to the city on March 2, 2014.
Wahlstrom arrived with Climate Change Assistant Commissioner Naderev “Yeb” Saño to have an ocular inspection of the city which bore the brunt of the supertyphoon’s wrath.
With Mayor Romualdez, the UN official went around the city at the UNDP funded Global DIRT (Disaster Immediate Response Team) for the biggest deployment of cadaver retrieval operations which is still ongoing, over four months since the November 8,2013 killer typhoon.(Photos By: TIME CANES/GAY B.GASPAY-TISAT)
