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GUIUAN - Generally, being woken up at the crack of dawn to your neighbour hammering away frantically does not make for a good morning. Here in Guiuan, well, it's still quite startling but once you remember where you are, it's actually quite comforting.
TACLOBAN - You can condition your body for a large number of things. Athletes condition their hearts and lungs to perform to elite standards. Competitive eaters condition their stomachs to be able to take more food.
In October 2016, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) convened a regional workshop on coordinated community engagement in humanitarian action.
TACLOBAN - In humanitarian emergencies, everyone needs to have a coping mechanism. When you are plunged into situations of such despair, you need something to keep you going – physically and emotionally.
Disaster of Epic Proportions
Disease fears
Relief Workers Risk Their Minds
A overview of where we worked and what we did throughout 2018.
One week since Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) crashed into the Philippines and relief efforts continue to expand to provide critical aid to the affected population. Access to affected areas is improving as debris is cleared and roads and bridges repaired.
With 11.3 million people affected and 673,042 people displaced, there is no understating the severity of damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda).
The end of 2013 saw the response capacity of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) tested as never before.
In addition to the long-running Syria conflict, three more emergencies were declared in rapid succession as Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Visayas region of the Philippines an