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Lost lives, lost homes, lost livelihoods
Parts of Capiz province were inundated during Typhoon Tino’s onslaught in the Visayas on Nov. 4. —PHOTO FROM THE CIVIL DEFENSE WESTERN VISAYAS FB PAGE
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November 12, 2025November 12, 2025Opinion

Lost lives, lost homes, lost livelihoods

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One day in the 1990s after rivers of lahar streamed from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo and buried many homes in Pampanga, I was peering through a second-floor window below my eye level. The ground was warm beneath my sneakers as I stooped to look into a bedroom with a double bed and its tousled...

We need mental health care in times of calamity
Aftermath of the landslides that claimed lives in Little Kibungan, Puguis, La Trinidad, Benguet, in October 2009 —CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
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August 2, 2024August 2, 2024Health

We need mental health care in times of calamity

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During extreme events that upend our collective life, we should also be concerned about each other’s mental, spiritual and psychological health aside from the urgent need for food, clothing and shelter. After all, emergencies require attention to both the corporeal and the psychological.  The intensity of the southwest monsoon rains exacerbated by Supertyphoon “Carina” (Gaemi)...