Photo Gallery: Mercy Relief Project in Visayas and Mindanao

The 9-month project of CDRC with Mercy Relief ended in January this year. CDRC and its Regional Centers (PCDR, PB, DIRECT and CPRS) successfully implemented the two main components of the project: Community-based Risk Management, and Community-based Natural Resource Management and Food Security. Activities ranging from trainings to tree planting were launched in five provinces, [...]

Photo Gallery: Flashflood in Leyte

Photos of the recent flashflood in Leyte. Sent by CDRC’s Regional Center, Leyte Center for Development (LCDE), who also suffered from the flood.

Philippines is third among countries most frequently hit by disasters in 2010

The Philippines ranked third in the list of countries most frequently hit by natural disasters in 2010, the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center reported. Carlos Padolina, CDRC’s Deputy Executive Director, cited the records of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) which showed that the Philippines was hit 14 times by natural disasters [...]

CDRC’s partner in Japan now accepting donations for quake and tsunami victims

CDRC’s partner in Japan, Civic Force, is sending at least ten trucks everyday to the affected areas. They have established goods and food distribution system, and is working with several NGOs operating in the field. For donations, you may contact Jang Woo, email at lee@civic-force.org or deposit your donation to: 【Bank】　 Bank: Mitsui Sumitomo, Aoyama [...]

More than 147,000 people affected by floods in Central and Eastern Visayas

Some 147,288 people or 29,430 families in 460 barangays have been affected by floods in Regions VII and VIII. Nine people were also confirmed dead due to floods and landslide. The city government of Tacloban and the provincial government of Leyte both declared a state of calamity following massive displacement of affected communities. Leyte and [...]

Philippines on Tsunami Alert Level 2

Tsunami Alert Level 2 was raised in the Philippines on Friday afternoon after a powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan, the biggest to hit the country in 7 years A four-meter high tsunami is expected to hit 19 provinces in the Philippines around 5:00 p.m to 7:00 p.m today. These provinces are Batanes Islands, Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, [...]

March is fire prevention month

Fire Prevention Month has been observed every year since 1966 per Presidential Proclamation No. 115-A, but fire continues to cause destruction in the lives and properties of thousands of Filipinos. 2011 has just started but CDRC already recorded 27 fire incidents. In 2010, as in previous years, fire outnumbered other disasters. There were 123 recorded [...]

Photo Gallery: Caritas Switzerland monitoring visit

Caritas Switzerland representative Ms Erna Kaeppeli visited CDRC project sites in Pangasinan and Albay from February 23-26, 2011. She saw the Typhoon Pepeng-affected communities of Alay Bayan Inc. in Bayambang, Pangasinan where shelter and non-food items were distributed, and the Typhoon Reming rehabilitation areas of Tarabang para sa Bicol in Camalig, Albay. ABI and TABI [...]

Photo Gallery: Medical Mission in Las Navas, Northern Samar

CDRC, and its Regional Partner in Eastern Visayas, the Leyte Center for Development (LCDE), conducted a medical mission and a relief delivery operation for the communities affected by floods and armed conflict in eight baranggays in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Some 894 families or 4,949 persons benefited from the mission.

Photo Gallery: Flood Preparedness Project in Albay

The project, “Enhancing Flood Preparedness and Helping the Survivors of Super Typhoon Reming Help Themselves” is nearly at the finish line, achieving great leaps and strides since its humble start in 2008. Here are recent photos of various activities launched by the Disaster Preparedness Committees in eight communities at the foot of Mayon Volcano: nursery development, community tree [...]

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