Febelyn Drilo | Maisulao village, Calumpit municipality

I am a housewife with three small children. It’s difficult because we have to continue living in our home even when it’s full of floodwater. If the children fall into the water, we just lift them up. We raise our beds to sleep. The water was up to chest-high last week. This area used to be all farmland with plants, but now its gone.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel




A woman in a pink dress stands i a knee-deep water in her flooded house, with their belongings piled up high.

" I hope we can get help with the problem of rising water, which has been here since Typhoon Emong. The water has been increasing; it’s not disappearing any more. That’s the change I’ve seen here."
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