Cirilo Lopez | San Miguel village, Hagonoy municipality

I’m a tricycle driver, but right now I can’t drive as the water is too deep. I’m left with no choice but to stay at home. It’s extremely difficult … you don’t know what to do first, especially when you have children with you. First of all, climate change is the destruction of the atmosphere.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel




A man in red shorts stands in his flooded kitchen.

"Secondly there is corruption. That won’t be eliminated. Before, there were many trees here. You wouldn’t be affected by high tide. Now, the trees are slowly disappearing. The careless disposal of trash is also a big reason."
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