CARE makes history after organizing the 1st Leyte Cassava Congress in collaboration with the Global Affairs Canada, Fatima Multi-Purpose Cooperative (FMPC), Philirootcrops and Philippine government agencies at the Visayas State University. The event, attended by over 300 people, brought small-scale cassava farmers closer to government agency officials and other service providers for additional support, and […]
Story by Dennis Amata (Communications & Knowledge Manager, CARE Philippines) The sun slowly sets over the picturesque Lanao Lake in Marawi City. Janerah Abdulmoin, CARE’s Program Coordinator for its Marawi Crisis Response project, looks at the sky in vibrant red and orange also reflected across the water. She can’t help but recall her days as […]
Typhoon Mangkhut, locally known as Ompong, brought ferocious winds and blinding rain that left infrastructure and agricultural damage to provinces in northern Philippines. Over 58,000 people have evacuated according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. CARE immediately sent an emergency response team to Cagayan ahead of the typhoon’s landfall. Jerome Lanit, CARE’s […]
Typhoon Mangkhut (locally known as Ompong), the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, continues to intensify. The Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has classified “Mangkhut” into a super typhoon. It is currently equivalent to a category 5 Atlantic hurricane, with winds of at least 252 kilometers per hour (157 mph). As of […]
“We now have a farm where we both learn and earn.” This is what Rhodora Anos, a vegetable farmer and community leader, excitedly shared after opening their demonstration farms to visitors. Over 150 farmers from six communities in the town of Lemery, Iloilo, Philippines collaboratively set up vegetable season-long technology demonstration farms to apply good […]