by Kristia Solete | Jul 14, 2017 | Disaster Response, Stories
Ten-year-old Rainifah just got home from school enrolment when she heard loud explosions and gunshots near their house in Marawi City. Her school, later on, became part of the battlefield. “I started crying when I heard gunshots near our house,” Rainifah...
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 25, 2017 | Stories, Testimonies
For the last 15 days, Efren and Alice Eramis worked every day for Operation Blessing as a volunteer offering advice and help at the Maria Cristina Gym, Balo-i, Lanao Del Norte. They would come from Iligan City proper from 11 am, pass through multiple checkpoints, and...
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...
