For broadcaster Bernadette Sembrano-Aguinaldo, now is the time to clean up with the weather finally being good after days of heavy rains.
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Last week, an earthquake struck Luzon and heavy rains caused flash floods again in Metro Manila.
A major worry for people during the rainy season, especially if floodwaters get inside their homes, is damage to appliances.
Thanks to its innocence, a child seems able to blind itself blissfully to the ugliness of tragedy and disaster, whether it’s a war, as shown in the award-winning Italian film with that precise title, or the more familiar experience of storms and their inevitable consequence—floods.
In the days of flooding that paralyzed Metro Manila and Luzon, young people lost no time in using the power of visual communication and graphic design to help those severely affected by the calamity. Their works here rally the people to help.
They were two children, a girl and her younger brother, expert swimmers. Their house was destroyed when cataclysmic floods struck Iligan City in Mindanao last December. Their parents perished, along with two other siblings.
Following the recent floods, the Department of Health has warned against the outbreak of certain diseases. One of those which people have to watch out for, aside from respiratory ailments, is diarrhea, especially among children.
Last week’s heavy monsoon rains revived memories of “Ondoy” in 2009, which had broken records, with a month’s worth of rain falling in just six hours.
