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 including the Haiti earthquake and floods in Pakistan. The following is a short interview with him from November 19, 2013.
I am not a lucky man. Since I can remember, my life has been a succession of trials and struggles. Coming from a poor family and having to live one day at a time, never knowing what tomorrow will bring.
“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 means: “Stand Up.”
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 powerful flash
On November 19th, people around the world celebrate World Toilet Day. This day aims to break the taboo around toilets and draw attention to the global sanitation challenge. Uwe Korus, Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability Coordinator for CARE International, currently supports CARE Lebanon in its Syria Response.
Abdulwahad is standing behind the counter of a small shop in Mafraq. Socks, shoes, blankets and scarves are hanging on rusty hat stands. Hair ties, nail polish and pens are piled in little baskets made out of bast.
When 14-year-old Khaled left his home town Dara’a in the south of Syria nine months ago, life as he knew it ceased to exist. His family house was burnt down as were most of the buildings in his village.
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 have lost everything.
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