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In Maguindanao, internally displaced women are empowered through agri-entrepreneurship
Hasana Sampayan and other project participants listen to their barangay captain during a community assembly. —PHOTOS COURTESY OF HASANA SAMPAYAN
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May 6, 2024February 28, 2025Diversity

In Maguindanao, internally displaced women are empowered through agri-entrepreneurship

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“I remember during Ramadan last year, at iftar—just as we were about to break our fast—suddenly we heard an explosion. We dropped and ran, carrying our food with us,” Salha Salik, who now lives in Shariff Saydona Mustapha, recalled in Tagalog during a phone interview. “It’s unpredictable here,” said Salik, 35. “Ever since I was...

10 years after ‘Yolanda’: When need met generosity through the Star of Samar
Samar fishermen and the boats they received. —PHOTO COURTESY OF GONZALO AND DIANA SY-QUIA
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November 7, 2023November 7, 2023Environment

10 years after ‘Yolanda’: When need met generosity through the Star of Samar

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“There was no electricity, no fuel, no internet, or any other way to communicate. There was a severe shortage of all kinds of commodities.” This was how the lawyer Byron Bocar, who was in Eastern Samar when Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) made first landfall in Guiuan in the early hours of Nov. 8, 2013,...