BALSA Mindanao (Bulig alang sa Mindanao/Help for Mindanao) is a broad Mindanao-wide network of church and church-based organizations, schools, disaster response NGOs, local executives, professional groups, youth and students, women, partylists, and concerned individuals. It is a citizen-led response to the immense humanitarian crisis brought about by Typhoon Sendong.[read more…]
Another Sendong victim kills self AN EVACUEE who was reported to be suffering from trauma brought by Tropical Storm Sendong committed suicide...Posted 2/23/12 11:17 AM
Bukidnon's forest denudation the ‘primary culprit’ CAGAYAN de Oro would most likely suffer the consequences by the unabated deforestation of Bukidnon's used-to-be lush mountains and wanton conversion of its upland... Posted 2/17/12 4:28 PM
Video teaser of the Sendong tragedy that hit Iligan City last December 16-17 2011 which left more than 400 persons dead and many more missing and countless of houses washed away by flashfloods.
Elvira, a wife and mother who once lived in bliss with her husband and two children lost [view more]
everyone and everything in the Typhoon Washi, locally known as Sendong, that hit Mindanao a week before Christmas. This is a story of a woman who rose bravely from her loss. Pleading for actions to find her missing child and holding herself boldly to move on, she lives her life by helping others who suffered the same pain.
