LCDE Compound Damages (PICTURES)

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found." 

-Pema Chodron

Main LCDE office. The debris in the foreground is whats left of the tree-house
that sat just along the gate.

Office interior left side.

Office interior right side. The mezzanine (second floor) collapsed as did
the whole wall on the back.

The kitchen, dining and parking area. All vehicles fortunately only suffered
minor damage and are still fully operational.

Staff house (left) and Training center (right). Not much was left worth
salvaging inside both structures, which included personal belongings
of staff members.

Training center interior. 

Training center front entrance.

Training center roof.

Staff house. What caused the most damage to the roof was the coconut tree
that fell on it during the storm, as the resulting puncture in the roof
caused the strong wind to enter and peel it off.

Staff house interior.

Items that of some use which we were able to save.

LCDE front wall.

Staff house and training center.

LCDE main compound.

Weathering the storm

We made it out in one piece (minus the office), the damage wrought here was mind numbingly massive but still here we are conducting relief operations amidst it all! Updates will be rolling in very soon.

Padayon ha Pag-gios, Padayon ha Pag-serbi!

For more on our relief efforts visit our partners website: Citizens Disaster Response Center

Articles of Interest (LOCAL): Recent Updates on the State of Education in our Country

Sometimes we will be unable to post full articles here due to copyright laws, so we will provide direct links to the articles instead. The short video we also included below should sum up our current educational state in a nutshell, which in truth is quite abyssmal. -LCDE Staff

Tuition, other fees up in 1,257 schools

(Source: The Philippine Star, May 28, 2013)

To read about this article click HERE.

Infographic: 10 things about K to 12

(Source: Rappler, May 29, 2013)

To read about this article click HERE. 

What? 2011 too!?

In relation to the article below, the Philippines happens to be also one of 2011's most disaster hit countries as we soon found out in this article (Philippines tops list of disaster hit countries in 2011), which is definitely a worrying trend. This is one list we do not want to be on. For now we leave you with this video of tragic disasters on the Philippines from 1990 to 2010, some natural and some man-made. - LCDE staff

                                       

Article of Interest (LOCAL): Philippines is most disaster-affected country in 2012

Philippines is most disaster-affected country in 2012

Source: CDRC-Phil

The Philippines topped the list of countries with the highest mortality rate due to natural disasters in 2012.

 The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC), a non-government organization based in the Philippines, cited the records of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which showed that 2,360 people were killed due to natural disasters in 2012. Coming in second was China with 771 deaths.

  CDRC is a partner of CRED, a World Health Organization collaborating center based in Brussels, Belgium, which maintains the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database).

CRED also reported that in terms of the number of people affected by natural disasters, the Philippines came in second to China. There were 43 million people affected in China; and 12 million in the Philippines.

CDRC’s Deputy Executive Director, Carlos Padolina, said that the Philippines’ ranking was due to Typhoon Pablo (Bopha), the largest disaster that occurred in 2012. Pablo killed over 1,000 people in Southern Philippines.

 Meanwhile, citing its own data, Padolina revealed that a total of 471 natural and human-induced disasters occurred in the Philippines in 2012. Compared to the 2011 data, 2012 posed a 9% increase in the number of disaster events recorded by CDRC.

 CDRC monitors both natural and human-induced disasters that occur in the Philippines.

 “Majority of these disasters were caused by flood with 143 incidents and 7.8 million people affected. The high number of flooding incidents can be attributed to the Southwest Monsoon which inundated much of Luzon in August of 2012,” Padolina said. “However, the major cause of mortality rate last year was Tropical Cyclone,” he added.

 Padolina also pointed out the increasing trend in the number of affected people in the last five years. He said the strong typhoons that the Philippines experienced in recent years have contributed a lot to this trend.

Download CDRC’s complete Philippine Disaster Report 2012 here.