DAVAO CITY – A major quake measuring 7.2-magnitude on the Richter scale rocked Mindanao before Saturday noon, triggering the issuance of a tsunami advisory off the coasts of the Philippines and neighboring Indonesia.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded the (...)
Independence, a significant step of People’s Organizations (POs) towards empowerment:
In the past 3 years, humanitarian and community development works of MIHANDs in the island of Leyte resulted concrete evidence of community empowerment. Begins in a simple relief response after the super (...)
More than 100 injured in Hong Kong and 2.4 million flee in Guangdong. Heaviest casualties in the Philippines in Benguet province.
Tropical storm Mangkhut continued on its destructive path on Sunday as it hit the southern coast of China, killing two, after leaving at least 64 dead in the (...)
Urgent Appeal for Humanitarian Assistance for the Families Affected of Armed Conflict in Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
On December 24, 2017 at around 10:00 in the evening, about 61 Teduray families in Sitio Makun, Barangay Limpongo of Datu Hoffer Municipality in Maguindanao province (...)
Lanao del Norte MiHands Incident Command Center Updating and Planning. MiHands is a movement of at least 50 grassroots organizations for humanitarian actions against disasters convened by TRIPOD and RDRRAC since 2013. This is only a partial report on ongoing activities, it does not cover the (...)
We are reproducing below several Al Jazeera articles on the disastrous consequences in Mindanao of typhoon Temblin/Vinta. ESSF has received and endorsed a call for financial solidarity from Mihands coalition. For more information, please go to article 42742: Typhoon Vinta/Tembin – New Disaster (...)
We are reproducing below an Al Jazeera and a Guardian articles on the disastrous consequences in Mindanao of typhoon Temblin/Vinta. ESSF has received and endorsed a call for financial solidarity from Mihands coalition. For more information, please go to article 42742: Typhoon Vinta/Tembin – New (...)
We received an urgent call from Mihands after typhoon Vinta / Tembin struck Mindanao from East to West on December 22.
ESSF collaborates regularly with the coalition Mihands in the event of humanitarian disasters. We endorses this call to give it an international reach.
We are ourselves (...)
3 in 1 Relief Operation
It’s hard for anybody to say something about the current updates on actual situation of Marawi City because until this moment no official information disseminated aside from the sanitized reports of the government or the military in particular who was holding the main (...)
It’s already three (3) months but no one could say the real truth about the status of Marawi today except the concrete evidence that until this date the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) still on their location in different areas in Iligan City and other places. Some says that the stage of (...)
VolunteerTales|What Sendong Taught Me
Michael Quirante, 25, knows too well the harsh realities of experiencing a disaster. After all, he was one among the fortunate people who survived 2011’s world’s deadliest storm, tropical storm Washi or locally known as Sendong. He heard how the rain and the (...)
On Sicogon Island in the Philippines, farmers and fisher folk were displaced from their land and fisher folk were displaced from their land and livelihoods after the Typhoon Yolanda. Opportunistic land grabbing after a climate disaster is yet another example in which those least responsible for (...)
We are posting below examples of humanitarian situations and activities run by the Ranaw Disaster Response and Rehabilitation Center, (RDRRAC) in Iligan, since the beginning of the Marawi siege, May 23, 2017. RDRRAC is a member of the Multi-stakeholders Initiatives for Humanitarian Action (...)
Thousands in quake-hit Surigao in southern Philippines seek refuge on the streets as aftershocks hit the city.
Thousands of residents of a quake-hit city in the southern Philippines sought refuge on the streets as aftershocks hit the region on Sunday, two days after a quake killed six.
The (...)
Summative Background:
Three (3) years ago, the Multi-stakeholders Initiative for Humanitarian Action against Disasters (MIHANDs) formerly the Mindanao Humanitarian Action Network against Disasters (MiHANDs) arrives in the island of Leyte to contribute its humanitarian intervention to selected (...)
Several provinces affected, with hundreds of thousands abandoning Christmas celebrations to reach emergency shelters.
A typhoon has lashed the northern Philippines, killing at least six people and forcing more than 380,000 in several provinces to abandon Christmas celebrations at home and move (...)
Yolanda (Haiyan by its international name), the strongest typhoon touching land ever registered, devastated the center of the Philippine archipelago in November 2013 . In July 2016, two years and eight months after, when I landed on Tacloban airport, life had returned to normal. The churches, (...)
PRESS STATEMENT 07 November 2016
Urge Yolanda fund audit, Scrapping of Tide Embankment Project Among other Urgent Demands TACLOBAN CITY. An alliance of Yolanda survivors and their partner non-government (...)
Houses are destroyed as communities take shelter from sustained winds of more than 225km/h.
One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Philippines destroyed houses, tore roofs off schools and ripped giant trees out of the ground on Thursday.
Super typhoon Haima hit the northern (...)
Three years after the typhoon destroyed more than a million homes and killed 6,000 people, the Philippines has fallen far short on house-building pledge.
When Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the city of Tacloban in the central Philippines almost three years ago, Arsenio was one of the lucky ones – (...)
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