Disaster Profile

The Philippines is one of the most typhoon-impacted countries globally, with about 20 tropical cyclones traversing the country’s area of responsibility each year. 

Typhoons, also known as tropical cyclones and hurricanes, are among the deadliest disasters in the world.

On November 8th, 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, made its initial landfall in the Eastern Samar region of the Philippines.  Haiyan swept through Eastern Samar and Leyte, leaving a devastating trail of destruction. 

Typhoon Haiyan is considered the strongest typhoon that has hardly hit the country. 

The typhoon’s fury affected more than 14 million people across 44 provinces, displacing 4.1 million people, killing more than 6,000 and leaving 1,800 missing. In addition, Typhoon Haiyan damaged 1.1 million houses, destroyed 33 million coconut trees (a major source of livelihoods), and disrupted the livelihoods of 5.9 million workers. Overall damage is estimated 5.9 million.

The situation for the settlements in Northern Tacloban was a mixed of different barangay coming from the downtown Tacloban, after the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan thousand of people lost their lives and their livelihood. The government order the survivors to transfer to the resettlement because they were based in areas considered prone to to geohazards.

The livelihood of the people before Haiyan is mainly fishing, fish vending and small store and considered to have low-income population, however when they were transferred to the northern resettlement they lost their livelihood and they became more below the poverty line, thus this situation is still rampant people tend to involve themselves in the use of drugs, gang wars within the community,online prostitutions etc.