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Super typhoon Haiyan: what happened to the survivors?
Updated: Sun, 9 Nov 2014







Philippines remembers thousands killed a year after typhoon Haiyan

				
					More than 6,300 people died a year ago when typhoon Haiyan smashed into the country
				
				


















							
							

							
								A year after deadly typhoon, Philippines women weave their magic

							
						


					
						A group of women are stitching their lives back together by weaving colourful reeds used in handicrafts sold by the world's top retailers
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Thu, 6 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								A Filipina's story of birth and survival in a cave during Haiyan

							
						


					
						“I didn't want the baby to come out because the conditions in the cave were not good. I had labour pains for five days.”
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Thu, 6 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippines' typhoon orphans struggle with trauma a year on

							
						


					
						When a torrent of water separated the family, Joshua, 13, survived by holding onto a coconut tree
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Wed, 5 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Glints of hope emerge in typhoon-hit Philippines city Tacloban

							
						


					
						Entrepreneurs bring innovation and hope to city where a year ago corpses lined the streets and looters ran amok
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Wed, 5 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Typhoon Haiyan survivors rebuild lives with farming, pigs, stores

							
						


					
						Haiyan slammed the Philippines one year ago and destroyed the livelihoods of an estimated 5.6 million people
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Wed, 5 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								FACTBOX-Typhoon Haiyan one year on

							
						


					
						A year after the disaster, fewer than 100 of 14,500 promised permanent homes have been built in Tacloban
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Wed, 5 Nov 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								One year after super typhoon, Philippines approves rebuilding plan

							
						


					
						Fewer than 100 of 14,500 promised permanent homes have been built and thousands still live in danger zones
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Thu, 30 Oct 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								A year on, typhoon-hit Philippine city fails to rebuild homes

							
						


					
						Just 100 of 14,500 promised homes have been built in Tacloban city since Typhoon Haiyan
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Tue, 28 Oct 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Marathon walk to storm city spotlights Philippine climate risks

							
						


					
						Hundreds of activists hope 38-day walk will raise awareness of threat from higher seas, extreme weather
					
					


					
						By Imelda V. Abano | Thu, 2 Oct 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippines plans $3.9-bln effort to relocate typhoon victims

							
						


					
						The plan is to rehouse some 200,000 families displaced by last year's super typhoon that killed 6,100 people
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Fri, 1 Aug 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippine province proves mass storm deaths can be avoided

							
						


					
						Deaths can be prevented provided there is the will to make people do what is necessary to save their own lives
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Wed, 23 Jul 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Filipinos lack climate protection on the ground, despite laws

							
						


					
						Local governments are short of funding and know-how to implement laws and policies to reduce climate impacts
					
					


					
						By Imelda V. Abano | Wed, 28 May 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Typhoon season threatens Philippines Haiyan survivors

							
						


					
						Some 380,000 households need critical, urgent assistance with shelter, the United Nations said
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Thu, 8 May 2014

					
					














							
							

							
								Building back better after devastating Typhoon Haiyan

							
						


					
						With over 1 million homes damaged by Typhoon Haiyan, there is urgent need for shelter. The Red Cross, through a two-hour long demonstration, is showing survivors they can build back better and inexpensively
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Mon, 27 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Healing Philippines child typhoon survivors through art

							
						


					
						With many of the nearly 6 million children affected by super storm Haiyan having lost friends and family, aid agencies turn to games, song and art to help them move beyond the trauma
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 24 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Haiyan survivors worry over resettlement sites, homes, jobs

							
						


					
						People who had lived in areas now considered too dangerous are worrying about whether they will find jobs at government resettlement sites, and whether they should rebuild in ‘no-build zones’ and risk having their homes washed away again
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Wed, 22 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippines mulls disaster insurance for local governments

							
						


					
						“Filipinos are known to be a resilient lot. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of our infrastructure, schools, our cities and even our economy,” says Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change
					
					


					
						By Imelda V. Abano | Wed, 22 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippines urged to climate-proof cities, coastal areas

							
						


					
						A study of 12 at-risk cities in the Philippines urges them to prepare ahead by making infrastructure safer and investing in social buffers   
					
					


					
						By Imelda V. Abano | Wed, 22 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								Two months after Haiyan, funding for shelter urgently needed

							
						


					
						Shelter activities are one of the lowest funded under the U.N.’s $788 million post-Haiyan response plan
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Tue, 7 Jan 2014

					
					













							
							

							
								A New Year's resolution for Typhoon Haiyan survivors

							
						


					
						As the hard slog of rebuilding the central Philippines after Super Storm Haiyan begins in the new year, this correspondent is hoping the recovery will be well-funded and managed
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Tue, 24 Dec 2013

					
					













							
							

							
								Philippine typhoon survivors struggle to salvage Christmas

							
						


					
						Across the centre of the mostly Catholic Philippines, people are scraping together whatever they can to celebrate Christmas, nearly seven weeks after the storm. Some are struggling to cope with their grief
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Tue, 24 Dec 2013

					
					













							
							

							
								Aid agencies launch $791 mln plan to help Haiyan survivors

							
						


					
						The strategic response plan will provide 3 million survivors with direct assistance including food, shelter and water and sanitation services.
					
					


					
						By Thin Lei Win | Mon, 16 Dec 2013

					
					













							
							

							
								For Haiyan survivors, Christmas brings hope amid the rubble

							
						


					
						PHILIPPINES-TYPHOON/ (PIX):For Philippine typhoon survivors, Christmas brings hope amid the rubble
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Mon, 16 Dec 2013

					
					














							
							

							
								Philippines still in ruins one month after Haiyan

							
						


					
						Filipinos try to move forward with their lives one month after enduring the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan
					
					


					
						By Reuters | Sun, 8 Dec 2013

					
					
























































 







Children hold signs asking for help and food along the highway, after Typhoon Haiyan hit Tabogon townReuters





Residents clear the road of a fallen electric post after Typhoon Haiyan hit Daanbantayan townReuters





Residents hang clothes on wires from a fallen electric post after super Typhoon Haiyan hit Daanbantayan townReuters





A man carries water as he walks on a flooded street during nightfall after the Super typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central PhilippinesReuters





A family looks out of a destroyed window in their home after the Super typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central PhilippinesReuters





Residents rush to get food packs during a relief distribution after super typhoon Haiyan hit Iloilo provinceReuters





 








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                                    Children hold signs asking for help and food along the highway, after Typhoon Haiyan hit Tabogon town

                                  
                                      









                                  
                                    Residents clear the road of a fallen electric post after Typhoon Haiyan hit Daanbantayan town

                                  
                                      









                                  
                                    Residents hang clothes on wires from a fallen electric post after super Typhoon Haiyan hit Daanbantayan town

                                  
                                      









                                  
                                    A man carries water as he walks on a flooded street during nightfall after the Super typhoon Haiyan battered ...

                                  
                                      









                                  
                                    A family looks out of a destroyed window in their home after the Super typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in ...

                                  
                                      









                                  
                                    Residents rush to get food packs during a relief distribution after super typhoon Haiyan hit Iloilo province

                                  
                                      












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