Abel Binoya | San Miguel village, Hagonoy municipality

It’s been flooded for six months in our street, since Typhoon Emong hit Bulacan. It was not like that before, the water would only last about a week, even if it was a big flood. I work as a tricycle driver and you can’t pick up any passengers because it’s flooded everywhere. When it floods, it’s really difficult.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel




A man standing in water in his house.

 The weather has really lost its direction, and that is the effect of climate change. Here in the north we used to have rain in August for half a month, fifteen days of rain, fifteen days of sunshine. Now, that pattern is gone.
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