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who shares a dwelling in Manila with another household.“Last month my husband does not have any work … as all of the construction contracts have been completed.” Despite their desperate situations, the various communities we visited had another unifying factor: an unbelievable sense of generosity and kindness. Families offered to share food when they had little and welcomed foreign faces and probing questions into their homes without flinching. Their resilience, too, is incredible. In August, a typhoon swept through some of the slums we visited in Manila. Houses were flooded and damaged, work was delayed or canceled for many breadwinners, but the people rebuilt. Then in November, Typhoon Haiyan, which some claim is the strongest storm in recent years, devastated much of Leyte, including Javier. The recovery process in the provinces of Leyte and Samar will be a long and difficult one. While I was able to report on the disaster from Tacloban City in an article for this paper last month, I wasn’t able to make contact with Mayor Javier or any of my contacts in Leyte. But Schiffer had, and Mayor Javier reported that “destruction is everywhere,” and thousands of his constituents are homeless. The hotel VA and I stayed at was destroyed completely. It took nearly 36 hours to clear a single lane of the road so help could come in from Tacloban — and when they did, one medical team saw 2,800 patients on the first day. So the province is in even more dire trouble than when I first visited, but Schiffer says distribution to the area, as well as subsequent trips by VA training staff, will continue as scheduled. Though malnutrition is just one of a myriad of problems the people of the Philippines are faced with — especially in the wake of Haiyan — VA’s programs and the efforts of their on-theground partners appear to be continuing unabated.
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Master of Education (MEd) HEALTHY HANDOUT: (ABOVE) A child opens his mouth to receive a multivitamin in Our Lady of Sacrament, Cebu City. (BELOW) A girl eats a typical breakfast of plain rice and dried fish in her house in Javier, Leyte.
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