Impact stories

We had a strong house. But during the typhoon, it fell down. We ran out to escape. I was carrying my two children. We ran to a cave. When we got there,

Gabriel Fernandez del Pino is a shelter and reconstruction advisor with CARE International UK who is working as part of CARE’s emergency relief team responding to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Mr. del Pino has worked in several large scale disasters…

Expert Q&A on Typhoon Haiyan Relief: Athena Gepte, age 24, coordinated the first wave of food distributions after Typhoon Haiyan decimated large parts of the island of Leyte in the Philippines. She works for CARE’s local partner ACCORD. Here, she talks…

“Bangon Ormoc!” It’s scrawled on walls that Typhoon Haiyan has stripped of metal railings. It’s written on plywood stacked against bent electrical poles. It’s on T-shirts. In the city of Ormoc, nearly brought to its knees by massive typhoon destruction,…

It was the most terrifying moment in our lives,” says Fay Camallere, a woman from the typhoon-stricken city of Ormoc in the Philippines. “I felt death was coming.”Fay had felt death coming before. In 1991 at age 13, she was walking home from school when…

David Gazashvili is CARE’s Emergency Team Leader managing the response to Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. David is in Ormoc, western Leyte, one of the hardest hit areas, and talks about the logistical challenges of such a massive relief…

When Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines on Friday, Lourdes Hermilda had been with her husband and two children, counting down the days until the birth

The news reports really makes me cringe, when they show Filipinos as aggressive and that insecurity is the main theme. Yes, there are frequent lootings. Yes there are stores and shops being stripped bare of all items. But people are so desperate. They…

Sandra Bulling, CARE International Emergency Communications Officer, is with CARE’s Emergency Team in the areas affected by the Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.