President Marcos inspected the newly built “Bayanihan Village” in San Remigio, Cebu—a modular housing project completed within a week to provide immediate shelter for families displaced by the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the province on Sept. 30. During his visit on Oct. 10, Marcos...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Thursday, October 2, announced that it is mobilizing family tents and emergency supplies for thousands of families displaced by the powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Northern Cebu, following a direct call from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The quake, which...
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has mobilized immediate relief operations to assist communities devastated by the powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Cebu and nearby provinces earlier this week. Acting on the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., PCSO General...
DAVAO CITY – Responders hope to find more survivors after a three-year girl was rescued on Friday, February 9, three days after the landslide in Barangay Masara in Maco, Davao de Oro. RESPONDERS conduct search and rescue operations in Maco, Davao de Oro, on February 7. ( Office of the Provincial...
DAVAO CITY – A young girl was rescued from last Tuesday's landslide in Maco, Davao de Oro, on Friday morning, February 9. RESPONDERS conduct search and rescue operations in Maco, Davao de Oro, on February 7. (Armed Forces of the Philippines-Eastern Mindanao Command/AFP) The Provincial...
DAVAO CITY – Responders are racing against time on Thursday, Feb. 8, to find more survivors in the massive landslide that hit Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro on Tuesday night, Feb. 6. SOLDIERS retrieve a landslide fatality in Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro. (AFP Eastern Mindanao Command)...
The burden of healthcare is being shouldered by women. This was according to a volunteer-based organization in the Philippines serving indigent Filipino cancer patients and this is their story. Cancer patients at the corner of OPD Building in East Avenue Medical Center (Photo courtesy of PFBCI /...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – The provincial government of Albay is still thoroughly conducting search and rescue operation to locate the four passengers of the Cessna 340 aircraft which was reported missing on Saturday, Feb. 18, and found on Sunday, Feb. 19, at the crash site near Mayon Volcano in...
A rescue worker digs to reach a boy under the rubble of a collapsed building in the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 8, 2023, two days after a deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. A leading United Nations official called for the facilitation of aid access to rebel-held areas in...
CIANJUR, Indonesia -- Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 268 people appealed for food and water Wednesday, as rescuers picked through devastated villages with hopes of finding anyone alive fading. Residents move to a safer place after a 3.9-magnitude aftershock in Cugenang,...
Survivor's Tale By Rhodora E. (The author is a teacher who lives in Davao. Her identity is not fully disclosed to protect her.) “Every day, we have a chance to practice the small deaths, for each moment is a small death leading to a new life”, says Bob Edelstein. My physical “deaths” were...
SURVIVORS TALE By GLENDA D. RELOVA (The author is a nurse and a social worker by profession. She is the assistant secretary for the Operations Group and Statutory Programs of a government agency. ) Mahatma Gandhi once said “Where there is Love there is Life.” My survival story revolves around...
