by ALKFI | Jun 2, 2020 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
As of May 31, 2020, the “Pantawid ng Pag-ibig” campaign of ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Foundation (AFI), with the support of its sponsors and partners, raised over Php 400 million in cash donations and pledges. The project to date has fed over 750K Filipino families in the...
by ALKFI | Apr 14, 2020 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
Isa sa mga naging aksyon ng pamahalaan upang malabanan ang COVID-19 ay ang pagpapatupad ng Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) sa buong Luzon. Ngayong tayo ay nasa ika-apat na linggo ng ECQ, isa sa mga suliranin na patuloy na hinaharap ng karamihan ay ang mainam na...
by ALKFI | Mar 24, 2020 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
As of this writing, the government imposed a Luzon-wide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), described by the World Health Organization as a pandemic after it killed nearly 8,000 and infected 197,000 worldwide. I response to this...
by ALKFI | Feb 7, 2020 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
“Bumagsak po iyong bahay namin. Buti nalang wala pong tao doon noong lumindol,” (Our house was destroyed. Fortunately, nobody was in there when the earthquake struck). Caren Joy looking at their dilapidated house. With tears in her eyes, Caren Joy Casupanan narrated...
by ALKFI | Feb 6, 2020 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
It takes two to three hours for Warik Pan, a twelve-year old student at Sapang Uwak Elementary School in Porac, Pampanga, to travel home from school on foot. With no access to electricity, she uses a portable battery-powered flashlight to do her homework at night....
by ALKFI | Sep 23, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
She endured years of attending to a stage-based class due to scarcity of conducive classrooms. Each class has over fifty students. Two classes are going on at the same time. Merlyn Cebuco, 15, is a senior high school student at White Kulaman Integrated School...
