by Kristia Solete | Jul 10, 2017 | Disaster Response, Stories
Seven-month pregnant Aira thought that she would give birth to her 5th child and raise all her four children in the once peaceful Marawi City. But today, they are in Balo-I, Lanao del Norte as evacuees following the attack of Maute terrorist group during the Marawi...
by Kristia Solete | Jun 29, 2017 | Disaster Response, Stories
Laarni needed to run for her life, not allowing her to grab any stuff for school. It was on the morning of May 24 in Padian, Marawi City when Laarnie urgently needed to evacuate to a safe place when the Marawi crisis began. Along with her 14-year-old sister, elder...
by Kristia Solete | Jun 22, 2017 | Disaster Response, Stories
To survive, they ate porridge out of the scanty rice left in their kitchen and drunk from the rainwater they had collected in their backyard. Estrillita, 35, a mother of nine, managed to stay alive for 12 days in their house in the town of Mokado Colony, Marawi City,...
by Kristia Solete | Jun 20, 2017 | Disaster Response, Stories
High-impact military explosives destroyed hospitals, city buildings, houses, and other structures during the Marawi crisis. It has resulted in billions of peso in damages. Damages caused thousands of lives to fall ill, or worst, to die. Emalyn, 37, was caught in the...
by Kristia Solete | Jun 9, 2017 | Disaster Response, Uncategorized
Their memories of the warfare may not be harming them physically but the trauma they had experienced may haunt them for a lifetime. During this difficult time, the children have always been the most vulnerable. WATCH THIS VIDEO: Meet Jamael Polog, 12 years old. On May...
by Kristia Solete | Jun 9, 2017 | Disaster Response
Hugging is a no-no practice in the Maranao culture [source: Guevarra, M. (2017, June 7). Marawi with a smile. Retrieved from www.manilabulletin.com]. But setting aside our tribes and provinces, we are all Filipinos and we have the same goal of living in peace and...
