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‘Ondoy’ women survivors still struggling to get back on their feet

#HerStoryOurStory Fellow #HerStoryOurStory, In the News September 30, 2019May 21, 2020climate, climate change, disaster, environment, Ondoy, women 0 Comment

Written by: Jhesset O. Enano, Philippine Daily Inquirer

(Last of three parts)

MANILA, Philippines — From on top of a cabinet at the second floor of their house in Marikina City, Nora Cencil and her three young children watched in fear as the brown and murky floodwaters threatened to inundate their perch.

‘Ondoy’ spurred new laws but passivity still the norm

#HerStoryOurStory Fellow #HerStoryOurStory, In the News September 28, 2019May 21, 2020climate, climate change, disaster, environment, Ondoy, women 0 Comment

Written by: Jhesset O. Enano, Philippine Daily Inquirer

(Second of three parts)

Sept. 26, 2009, seemed an ordinary Saturday in Marikina City.

Around 11 a.m., Jackeline Parilla, three months pregnant, briefly noted the floodwaters outside her home in Barangay Industrial Valley Complex, a stone’s throw away from Marikina River. But within minutes the waters rose and spilled into her home and others nearby, and reached the level of her waist.

10 years after: Memories of Ondoy still fresh

#HerStoryOurStory Fellow #HerStoryOurStory September 26, 2019May 22, 2020climate, climate change, disaster, environment, Ondoy, women

Written by: Lauren Alimondo, Sun Star Baguio

Manila, Philippines- The wrath and damages brought by typhoon Ondoy that hit the country on 2009 remain for women in a village in Marikina city. Mothers cling to hope that it will not repeat.