HILABAAN ISLAND, Eastern Samar – The dusk has just set in. The village is starting to get dark. And families are busy preparing for dinner.  As soon as she finishes cooking, Leona Bertumen, 55 years old, leaves her house and roams around the community in an alert mode with her eyes trained at specific houses.

The Philippines ranks as one of the countries worst affected by the climate crisis, including the devastating typhoons that have intensified with global warming.

Oxfam Pilipinas on Tuesday urged the Philippine government to shift heavily towards the use of renewable energy as the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released last night. “The latest IPCC report on climate change mitigation just goes to show that even countries with low greenhouse gas emission contributions should be shutting […]

For the last 4 months, Uri Bandao has remained productive despite the difficult situation her family and at least 160 others have endured at an evacuation camp in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao province. Prior to their displacement due to clashes between government forces and armed men, the 46-year-old mother of 6 and wife of a “payong-payong” […]

With a number of communities and local tribes in Mindanao driven off of their land due to armed conflict, thousands of residents have repeatedly been displaced in provinces like Maguindanao. In one town in Maguindanao, an indigenous tribe had to seek refuge in a makeshift evacuation camp due to land disputes. Like a number of […]