The Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits, Inc. (ECOWEB) and partners call for more community led solutions and better complementation of efforts for rebuilding lives and livelihoods of population heavily affected…

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Joining Hands for Mindanao: Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods After the LPA Inundation

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Atoyay, Socorro, Surigao del Norte They are not even neighbors. They don't belong to the same barangay, although all of them…

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The Women of Atoyay

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Ilihan, Matam-is, Del  Carmen, Surigao del Norte Jayson Mullet, 32, a businessman and resident of Ilihan, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte,…

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Tubig

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Lawigan, Barangay Salog, Socorro, Surigao del Norte “Mora’g buhawi (like a hurricane),” was how barangay chairman Jorlito Bayeta, 62, described…

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MORA’G BUHAWI

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Purok Liaonan, Caob, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte Liaoyan as a project site was discovered by accident, or perhaps by chance.…

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Dayo sa Isla (Strangers in the Island)

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Barangay Santa Cruz, Socorro, Surigao del Norte made it to the national news days after Typhoon Rai/Odette made landfall here on…

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Cash to address immediate needs

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Uba, Barangay San Carlos, Dapa, Surigao del Norte At night, when standing on top of a hill in Ayotay, across…

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GIHUKASAN

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Quarry, Barangay San Antonio, Libjo, Dinagat Islands Libjo is a fifth-class municipality in the Province of Dinagat Islands.  It is…

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Ecological Warriors in a Mining Community

On the 100th day since #TyphoonOdette (RAI) hit the country that affected a total population of 3.2M Families and 11 Regions (Source: UNOCHA - TY RAI SitRep No.7), #ECOWEB is…

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100 DAYS OF SURVIVOR AND COMMUNITY-LED RESPONSE TO TYPHOON ODETTE

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Tonggo, Barangay Santo Nino, Jandig, Maribojoc Sitio Tonggo, a steep hill on top of a small mountain range, offers a…

Continue ReadingDiez Plete Para Langit (Ten Pesos Fare to the Heavens)

Diez Plete Para Langit (Ten Pesos Fare to the Heavens)