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Emily Irabagon | San Miguel village, Calumpit municipality

It’s hard. We’ve been submerged for almost seven months. If the water is high, we can’t get out to stock up on food. You can’t get out unless someone takes you. And the students here barely have school. I’ve grown old here; I’m 65 years old. When it flooded here in the past, it went straight down.

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A 65-year-old woman stands in her flooded room, the picture of The Last Supper behind her. "But when it floods now, it goes up and down until we’ve reached seven months of mud and water. They shouldn’t cut down the trees on the mountains and block water channels that let the water flow straight out."
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Maxima Garcelis | San Miguel village, Hagonoy municipality

I’ve been here in San Miguel since I was born and now I’m 76. I worked as a house helper, but now I just take care of my child since my eyesight has gotten blurry. We don’t have anything high or a second floor, so we have to lift everything up. When we were young, the only thing we worried about was a typhoon.

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A 76-year-old woman stands inside her flooded house, with pictures of her children on the wall behind her. "The only time we saw water before was if we went to the river. My message to the world is for this water to stop entering the houses and the streets. We end up with nowhere to sleep, nowhere to move our things."
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