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The gift of sunshine after the rains

Marikina residents doing their laundry. Photo by Luis Liwanag of VERA Files
What a joy to have two days of sunshine after several days of heavy rains.

Floodwaters are receding and relief goods can now be delivered to areas once inaccessible.

Please click here (VERA Files) for Luis Liwanag’s article and video “For Marikina residents, life goes on”

My friend, Marilyn Robles, was able to heave a sigh of relief when informed yesterday that upon the request of the director of Region 3 National Disaster Response Coordination Center, an Army truck from Camp Olivas in Pampanga had delivered food and water to her bedridden brother, retired Police General Ed Manaay, who was trapped during the height of the flood (water was neckdeep )in his home at Olivas subdivision, just behind the Philippine National Police Region 3 headquarters.

Click here (VERA Files) also for Vinvent Go’s “Malabon’s forgotten evacuees.”

After the depressing rains, just to be able to dry out our laundry under the sun is a blessing much appreciated.