Members of various groups stage a protest rally against the government’s slow response on the need of typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) survivors, claiming some of them continue to suffer from hunger and poverty five years after the disaster.
Yolanda by the numbers:
Affected persons in 9 regions — 16.1 million (or 3.42M families),
of which 92% or 14.8M (3.14M families) were in the 3 Visayas regions
Casualties — 6,300 dead, 1,062 missing, 26,688 injured
Damaged houses — 1.14M totally damaged; 589,404 partial
Total damage and estimated amount of losses — P132.4 billion
Source: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) final report on typhoon Yolanda
