Ladrera

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Of the six provinces in Eastern Visayas, the province of Western Samar has recorded a 18.89 percent prevalence rate of underweight children last 2015. According to National Nutrition Council Nutrition Officer II Rina A ...

I was afraid," the 40-year-old Filipino says. Sun immediately went online to search for Ladrera's family, and left messages and photos on various websites. A few days passed but there was no news. That's when Ladrera told Sun she wanted to go home.

As thousands of traumatized typhoon survivors struggled to escape the stricken city of Tacloban, Gina Ladrera was desperate to get back in. It had been five days since Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines coast, obliterating everything in ...