Tag: #taal eruption
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AFP, PCG in full force to save displaced Taal victims
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have coordinated with the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to help evacuate residents in Batangas who were displaced by Taal Volcano’s eruption, officials disclosed on Wednesday, March 30.
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Pandemic poses additional challenge to Taal evacuees
The Covid-19 pandemic is seen as an additional risk to nearly 3,000 residents in Batangas who were crammed in only 12 evacuation centers after the explosion of Taal Volcano, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Sunday, March 27.
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Over 1,000 Taal eruption-affected families await permanent relocation — DSWD
Most persons displaced by the Taal eruption in January 2020 have returned to their homes but 1,057 families are still waiting for their permanent relocation, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Friday, Feb. 4.
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Robredo asserts typhoon relief not election-related‘: 'We’ve been always here’
Typhoon relief operations have nothing to do with the upcoming elections because the Office of the Vice President (OVP) has always been present in every calamity, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, Dec. 26.
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Young frontliner faces fear in many shades: From Taal eruption to COVID
• When the ashfall covered her neighborhood, she thought things would get better soon, and then the pandemic came
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Batangas pastor grows all Bahay Kubo veggies after Taal eruption for his family’s survival amid pandemic
Due to the perils of the pandemic on public health and food security, the number of individuals who started farming went up. Among those who established a survival garden is Revelation Villarino Palado, a senior pastor at the New Life Christian Ministries church in Talisay, Batangas.
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PH’s first air quality monitors to be deployed to Taal-affected communities
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) bared on Monday, July 12, the deployment of locally made air quality monitors to communities affected by Taal’s unrest in provinces of Batangas and Cavite.
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COVID-19 threat adds to predicament of weary Taal Volcano evacuees
The threat posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become an additional burden to thousands of people in Batangas who fled their homes following the phreatomagmatic (magma and steam-driven) eruption of Taal Volcano.
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Retired corporate worker is now a full-time farmer
A lot of people become farmers in retirement. One of them is Thelma Murillo, a retiree who is now a full-time farmer after working in the corporate world for more than 30 years.