Impact

3 Months on Guardian

June 6, 2016
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On 8 November a ship transporting concrete was pushed ashore by winds that reached 195 mph flattening everything in its path. Residents are mostly reconstructing shelter near to their old homes and for millions of people, there is no choice but to build back worse, with very little help from the government. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Shops and small stores are opening three months after Typhoon Haiyan. In a badly-hit part of Tacloban, a shop offering phone credit has already been built and is well stocked. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Along the typhoon’s devastating path more than 33 million coconut trees were destroyed by 195mph winds. It will take between six to eight years for the coconut plantations to grow back. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Joel and his partner May-May live in a house on stilts above the water in Anibong Bay that Joel built using wood salvaged from the storm wreckage and a tarpaulin provided by Oxfam. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Joel Vilamor (26), a fisherman who lost his boat and fishing equipment during the typhoon now earns a living selling scrap metal that he finds along the shore in Anibong Bay.  (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Houses on stilts have been built using wood salvaged from the storm wreckage and tarpaulin provided by Oxfam in Rawis, Anibong Bay, Tacloban.(Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Girls wash their clothes on a stretch of coast in Tacloban where homes were flattened by the storm surge and ships crashing onto the shore. Oxfam has reached almost 550,000 people with relief in the first three months of the response, including clean water to more than 200,000 people by supporting the government to repair and fix broken pipes. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Children play in San Jose, Tacloban three months after the typhoon. Residents have been warned not live within 40 metres of the sea but many have nowhere else to go and erect shanty houses along the shoreline. (Photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

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