Yolanda Memorial and Learning Center to rise in Tacloban

THE REGIONAL Development Council has approved the construction of the Eastern Visayas Yolanda Memorial and Learning Center to serve as an educational venue and reminder of the super typhoon’s devastation, and of disaster mitigation and climate change adaptation. The project, proposed by the Tacloban City government, the Departments of Tourism, and of Science and Technology, would cost an estimated P602 million, including the operation and maintenance expenses during the first year of full operations. The project’s one-hectare site — at Barangay Suhi in Tacloban, where at least 8,000 Yolanda survivors are relocated — will have three buildings, a museum and knowledge center and a research laboratory. — The Freeman