Devastated lives & villages
By Julius D. Mariveles
A WEEK after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated Tacloban City and 44 other provinces of the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, PCIJ Multimedia Director Julius D. Mariveles and a team of journalists visited the affected villages. He returned home with a bundle of photos that spoke of the wrath of Yolanda more than words could describe.
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A boy plays at the Astrodome, one of the largest evacuation centers in Tacloban City, the largest city in eastern Philippines. This photo was taken a week after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philippines) struck the city and 44 other provinces in the country on Nov. 8, 2013. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A man builds his own temporary house on the grounds of the Astrodome in downtown Tacloban City over a week after super typhoon Yolanda leveled thousands of homes. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Tacloban City as seen through the window of a plane about to land at the almost destroyed airport. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A Royal Australian Air Force C-130 cargo plane unloads volunteers who will be doing rescue and relief work in Tacloban City. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A Royal Australian Air Force C-130 cargo plane flies over the devastation in Village 88 on its way to the Tacloban City Airport. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Thousands of Tacloban residents who wanted to flee the city after the typhoon struck wait for their turn to board the humanitarian flights of the Philippine or American air forces’ cargo planes bound for Manila. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Boxes of relief goods arrive at the airport that has become a city unto itself. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A volunteer conducts an inventory of the relief packs being unloaded from a truck. The relief packs came from a church in Canada, and consisted of sleeping mats, slippers, and bottled water. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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The relief truck cometh and people, including this grandmother and her grandchildren, run toward it. It was a Sunday, more than a week after the typhoon hit Tacloban City, and only the third time that relief goods were distributed. It was also the first time that the distribution work turned ‘systematic,’ according to an aid worker. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A village official supervises the distribution of relief packs to residents in Fisherman’s Village, one of the barangays nearest to the airport that were hit hard by the storm surge brought by Haiyan. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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The living cover their faces as the stench of the dead still hangs in the air more than a week after Haiyan sent walls of water crashing down on Fisherman’s Village in Tacloban City. Weeks after the typhoon struck, residents say a lot more bodies remain buried beneath the rubble. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Francisco Llena says he held on to pipes on top of a building across the road after the storm surge slammed on Village 88. Photo by Julus D. Mariveles
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A woman looks for what remain of her belongings in Village 88 in Tacloban City, a week after Typhoon Haiyan slammed through 44 provinces in the Philippines. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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This was what remained of Radyo Diwa after super typhoon Yolanda struck its building and facilities, and sent it off the air. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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“I know that it might also be hard for (our Manila office or officials) to send help because there are no banks, no ATMs. That’s what I have been telling my co-employees. I hope that help will come our way.” Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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The message says it all. This picture was taken a week after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philippines) devastated Tacloban City in eastern Philippines, along with 44 other provinces in the country. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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More than a week after the storm, bodies remain uncollected. Health department personnel bagged the bodies and left them by the roadside in Diit Village, Tacloban City, where a slaughterhouse is located. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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The Bantay Dagat speed boat remains docked in the middle of the road in front of dyVL Aksyon Radyo-Tacloban a week after Typhoon Haiyan hit 44 provinces of the Philippines. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Radio station dyVL has weathered many storms but went down on its knees when Yolanda came. It has turned into a refuge for people in the neighborhood. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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Almost leveled to the ground, this was what remained of radio station dyBR, after Yolanda slammed through 44 provinces in the Philippines. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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DyVL production chief Luisita Quebec, left, and Nino Padilla of dzRH-Manila and dyRC Cebu anchor the daily live feed of dzRH from Tacloban City. Days later, dzRH set up a temporary broadcast center at the Tacloban Grandstand. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A cry for help is spray-painted on the wall of one of the houses in Barangay 59B in Tacloban City. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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“The ships have no use for the fuel, we can use it to live,” says a resident. He and his friends siphon off diesel fuel from the moored ships and sell these for more than P100 per liter on the streets. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A woman who just had her injured eye treated, tends to her space inside the Redemptorist Church in Tacloban, one of the largest evacuation centers in the city. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A child fixes herself a juice drink from relief packs inside the Redemptorist Church as her siblings sleep in a corner of the church that has become their temporary home. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
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A boy brings home a pile of firewood taken from the debris of houses leveled by the storm in Anibong, Tacloban City. Photo by Julius D. Mariveles
Acknowledgment:
“Christian Aid funded this project/report as our contribution to the interest of the public’s right to know how the Yolanda funds are managed and used, and that the findings and recommendations are meant to feed into the policy discourse on Republic Act No. 10121 (The Philippine Risk Reduction and Management Plan of 2010) review and the Yolanda budget process.”