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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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Josie Lopez | San Miguel village, Hagonoy municipality

It’s scary, especially when the water comes at night without you noticing. All of your things get wet. It’s frightening. Before, we didn’t experience flooding like this. Now it just suddenly happens. We really end up submerged. My understanding of climate change is that, in the past, things weren’t like this. Maybe it’s because the climate keeps changing.

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A woman stands in her flooded kitchen, "When it’s supposed to be hot, it rains. When it’s supposed to be rainy, it becomes hot. The changes are quite obvious. I hope we find something within ourselves so this doesn’t continue."
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