Photos and stories from the field

Ms. Glenda Claborne is now on her fourth mission with MSB

The Philippines is located along the typhoon belt in the Pacific and is affected by an average of twenty typhoons a year, with the biggest and deadliest, in most recent memory, being Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in Nov 2013. One would expect that with this geography, climate, and experience with natural disasters, not to mention being a lower middle-income country, that the Philippines would already have a well-established disaster risk reduction and management system making it unnecessary to call for help from other countries.