ROTARY CLUB OF MANILA JOURNALISM AWARDS
2006 National Newspaper of the Year 2011 National Newspaper of the Year 2013 Business Newspaper of the Year 2017 Business Newspaper of the Year 2019 Business Newspaper of the Year
BusinessMirror
www.businessmirror.com.ph
A broader look at today’s business n
Sunday, December 6, 2020 Vol. 16 No. 59
EJAP JOURNALISM AWARDS
BUSINESS NEWS SOURCE OF THE YEAR (2017, 2018)
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2018 BANTOG MEDIA AWARDS
PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY
DATA CHAMPION
P25.00 nationwide | 2 sections 12 pages | 7 DAYS A WEEK
RESIDENTS travel via a small boat to their homes in San Miguel, Catanduanes, after receiving their kits from Save the Children.
SCAR UPON SCAR ROBINA and Adrian at their home in Catanduanes.
EDDIE and Maryjane, with their sons Sowee and Denver, pose for a photo with the items they received from Save the Children.
LEARNING modules are left out to dry in Catanduanes after getting soaked by heavy rains brought by Supertyphoon Rolly.
Children have been deeply impacted by the series of recent powerful typhoons, compounding the already severe socioeconomic and public health crisis from the Covid-19 pandemic. Their scars, piling on each other, are barely healing. By Estrella Torres
M
Photos by Lei Tapang and LJ Pasion
ORE than a month since Supertyphoon Rolly, the world’s most powerful storm in 2020, hit the Bicol region, thousands of children and their families still live in makeshift homes, facing hunger and missing out on education as their learning modules were washed out by floodwater.
“Our house was destroyed because we are poor,” said nineyear-old Maria (not her real name), one of thousands of children left homeless in the town of Malinao in Albay when Supertyphoon Rolly (international name: Goni) made landfall. Maria said the sound of raindrops and roofs being torn made her and her siblings cry. Moreover, seeing her learning modules being washed away by flood broke her heart. “I hope to receive learning materials,” said Maria, who wants
to pursue her dream of becoming a policewoman. “I want to help those who are hurt.” The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on November 11 that more than two million people were affected by Supertyphoon Rolly in the Bicol region, 450,000 of whom are children. The typhoon also left more than 170,000 houses partially damaged or destroyed, and the damage to agriculture has reached P5 billion. Continued on A2
PESO EXCHANGE RATES n US 48.0460
A SAVE the Children staff member surveys the destruction caused by Supertyphoon Rolly in Tiwi, Albay.
n JAPAN 0.4627 n UK 64.6507 n HK 6.1988 n CHINA 7.3445 n SINGAPORE 36.0219 n AUSTRALIA 35.7366 n EU 58.3471 n SAUDI ARABIA 12.8095
Source: BSP (December 4, 2020)