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...
by ALKFI | Aug 14, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
In celebration of the National Disaster Resilience Month, ABS-CBN Foundation- Sagip Kapamilya, an emergency humanitarian assistance program, recently signed an agreement with Manila Water Foundation. This partnership aims to help Filipinos who are vulnerable on...
by ALKFI | Aug 6, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
Her family struggles to obtain food every day, thus, going to school with an empty stomach is just a normal thing for her. Even if scarcity of food means eating once a day, it never hindered Warik Pan, a sixth grade pupil of Sapang Uwak Elementary School in Porac,...
