Making rubber band bracelets may just a hobby for many children but not for two young kids who managed to raise $100,000 for "Yolanda" victims in Leyte.
Jerby Santo, a former radio DJ in Tacloban, Leyte, who was working in Cambodia when Super typhoon Yolanda struck Eastern Visayas on Nov. 8, 2013, is back in his hometown to help in rebuilding efforts.
They faced the unspeakable, but they were not afraid to speak about it.
This bright morning, Mitch Albom will emerge from the cool shadows of an airplane and finally get a glimpse of what he came here to see—the ruined city of Tacloban in Leyte. And he has come not to sign books or sell them—he’s come to give them away.
Cupid’s arrow has found its mark in the grieving hearts of two persons in the crucible of death and destruction in the wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda in Palo, Leyte.
Roughly two months after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” caused death and destruction of horrifying proportions to Leyte, Samar and other parts of Central Philippines, the task of rebuilding lives and their land looks daunting.
I have this image of myself as a five-year-old, a white handkerchief tied around my tiny wrist, the other end tied to my mother’s.
An initial framework for action has been drawn up by foreign and Filipino experts to repair and reconstruct precious heritage churches in Central Visayas, mostly in Bohol, severely damaged during the recent massive earthquake and Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
Palo Archbishop John Du will officiate Sunday at 3 p.m. the concelebrated Memorial Mass for those who were killed when Supertyphoon “Yolanda” swept through the province on Nov. 8.
Last week, a young man named Jake went up to me at the Tacloban airport. (I found out that 38 members of his family died from the wrath of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”)
