Like Cateel, Baganga is also an old town, thus there were still a few old wooden houses there, pre-Pablo. Not anymore. From Bislig, where we were assured of concrete and landslide-free road, Baganga is around three hours and 20 minutes father down south through the … Continue reading Baganga at last (More Pablo wastelands)
Category: typhoon Bopha
Wasteland
I returned two days later, travelled the almost 300 kilometers to Cateel, Davao Oriental in the company of some telecoms officials from the Smart Communication who were bringing in volunteers from the Telecoms sans Frontieres (TSF) from Bangkok to set up a public calling station … Continue reading Wasteland
The wastelands of Pablo
By now, the world has had a glimpse of the horrors typhoon Pablo has brought on our shores. It was our first ever typhoon, the Davao Region had for so long not experienced a typhoon, except a typhoon No. 1 signal a couple of years … Continue reading The wastelands of Pablo

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