BFAR gives bancas, fishing gears to Yolanda-hit fishermen in Eastern Samar
GUIUAN, Eastern Samar- Two hundred motor engines and another three hundred fishing boats were distributed recently by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to fishermen coming from different towns of this province.
About 143...
80 families taking shelter at fish port complex to be moved out to...
TACLOBAN CITY- Families now temporarily living at the destroyed fish port building of the city would be given priority for transfer at the bunkhouses.
This was vowed by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala during his February...
SM Foundation extend assistance to its scholars in Eastern Visayas
TACLOBAN CITY- The SM Foundation extended assistance to all of its scholars in the region who were all victims of the supertyphoon Yolanda.
However, out of the 20 scholars of the foundation, one of them...
Lacson employs “bottom-up approach” to speed up rehabilitation of Yolanda-hit areas
TACLOBAN CITY-Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery (PARR) Secretary Panfilo Lacson revealed that he has implemented a bottom-up approach to hasten the recovery of areas devastated by the supertyphoon Yolanda.
This after the post-disaster needs...
Akbayan to build houses for Yolanda victims in Tacloban
TACLOBAN CITY- At least 15 housing units are to be constructed in village of Cabalawan by the party-list group Akbayan.
The construction of houses intended for the victims of supertyphoon Yolanda would be undertaken under...
Climate change gave us Yolanda, official said
TACLOBAN CITY-Philippine Climate Change Commissioner Naderev “Yeb” Saño admitted “it’s no rumor anymore” that climate change has also contributed to last year’s supertyphoon Yolanda which leveled central Philippines and killed over 8,000 persons.
“We have...