Judy Ann Reambonanza (middle) from Sentro para sa Ikauunlad ng Katutubong Agham at Teknolohiya (SIKAT), together with Mariphel Salgado (left) and Rechcin Concilles (right), proudly recalls and demonstrates how to apply knot-tying techniques to transport a person. This is part of the skills they acquired from the Water, Safety, Rescue, and Survival Techniques (WASAR) training.

Asnairah Tahir has been a bakwit (internally displaced person) all her life. She is a resident of Mamasapano, Maguindanao, one of the battlegrounds in the Philippines between government forces and armed groups, and even for rivalry among family clans called rido.

When the 2008 conflict between Armed Forces of the Philippines and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters broke out, Melan's family and other hundred families were forced to evacuate to a safer place in Datu Odin Sinsuat. Their temporary shelters had no decent comfort rooms, and access to safe water is scarce.

Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Noraida Abo With or without emergencies, Noraida Abo seldom stays at the office of the United Youth of the Philippines-Women (UnYPhil-Women), a local women’s rights organization she currently heads in the southern region of the Philippines.  Her organization is also providing life-saving aid such as cash-for-food, water, sanitation […]

In 2003, Oxfam in the Philippines carried out a gender audit among its partners to assess the extent to which gender equality is effectively institutionalized in the policies, structures, decision-making, and budgets. Some time thereafter, when Pampanga Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN) needed recruit a project assistant, they decided that they would be offering the […]