Marvin Torres Gianan, Calizon village, Calumpit municipality

I am a tricycle driver so I have a hard time with the rising water. The combination of the high tide and the flood is terrible. It’s difficult to work. Saving stuff is really hard. The water is rising faster now. In this region we have often had floods, but now with the typhoons so frequent, they are worse and take so much longer to subside.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel




A man stands in water inside his flooded house, with holy pictures and a Merry Christmas banner on the walls.

"We have had water here since Typhoon Emong in July. We know now what is going on because it’s in the news – many have become corrupt, and the funds for flood control construction have disappeared."
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