PILAR, Siargao Island – Since late last year, many residents in the village of Mabuhay would wake up as early as 2 a.m. to queue up and beat others to the only water pump station serving their community of 144 households. The onslaught of the Super Typhoon Rai (local name Odette) last December 16, 2021, […]

Four days after Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall, a truck carrying clean water and jerry cans arrived in Cagayan today for immediate distribution by Oxfam and the Cagayan Valley Disaster Response Center (CVDRC) to isolated communities in Rizal, Cagayan. This immediate response is informed by rapid assessments made by Oxfam and local partners that clean water […]