July of this year, the Build Power and Resilience (BPR) Team facilitated a Disaster Risk Reduction Orientation (DRRO) in Barangay 37 Reclamation Area, one of the barangays in downtown Tacloban hardly hit by super typhoon Yolanda. In attendance were members of the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee (BDRRMC) and members of Kusog, CEC’s […]
The Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) conducted a Disaster Risk Reduction Orientation (DRRO) in three barangays in Basey, Samar. With the aim of equipping farmers with knowledge on disaster risk reduction and management, CEC delivered the DRRO in Sitio Rizal of Barangay Bulao and Sitio Guinpong-doan of Barangay (where?). The activities were participated in by […]
Super typhoon Yolanda (named after a woman) killed thousands of people in Eastern Visayas and in the entire country, many of whom were women. Women who were fortunate enough to have survived continue to struggle hard to rise above the difficulties of Yolanda aftermath—the trauma, the lost homes, and the rising cost of living among […]
