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Building resilient communities: disaster risk reduction in the Philippines

Tony Cunningham, Thu, May 31 2012 12:43 PM

Last month we took Tony Cunningham, Shadow Minster for International Development, to the Philippines to see how UNICEF is helping children on the ground after the devastation of Tropical Storm Washi. Here's his blog for us about the things he saw, the people he met and why preparing for disasters is so vital in the Philippines.

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Peer to peer: young people help children recover from disaster

Andy Brown, Tue, Feb 14 2012 5:30 AM

Seventeen year old Kim sits with a group of young children in a child-friendly space at an evacuation centre in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines, one of the towns worst hit by Tropical Storm Sendong last December. The centre is in a barangay (village) covered court. It’s crowded and humid, with the smell of sweat.

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Shelter from the storm

Andy Brown, Mon, Sep 20 2010 3:29 PM

UNICEF UK’s Andy Brown visited the town of San Pedro in the Philippines, following the 2009 typhoon and floods. He went back in 2010 to see how the situation had improved. This is an account of his first visit.

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