
Life’s Like a Ball
Youngsters play basketball amid the ruins in Barangay 69 Anibong in Tacloban City on November 25, 2013. [] These boys say life is like a ball, it goes up and down when dribbled. Photo taken last November 25, 2013 Photo

Youngsters play basketball amid the ruins in Barangay 69 Anibong in Tacloban City on November 25, 2013. [] These boys say life is like a ball, it goes up and down when dribbled. Photo taken last November 25, 2013 Photo

Volunteers from Bukidnon cheer up children during a stress debriefing exercise in Tacloban City on Nov. 24. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

A carpenter works on a roof blown by super typhoon Yolanda in Albuera, Leyte on Nov. 25. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

Soldiers from the Army’s 4th Infantry Division Task Force Diamond form a line to pass out relief bags to super typhoon “Yolanda” survivors in Albuera town, Leyte on Nov. 26. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November)– Boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao will visit Tacloban City and several parts of Eastern Visayas tomorrow (Saturday) to conduct a relief mission for survivors of super typhoon “Yolanda.” Michael Bren Evangelio, chief
TACLOBAN CITY (MindaNews/29 November)—Amid the devastation of super typhoon “Yolanda” here, some youngsters are getting back to their “normal lives” by playing basketball again. Young survivors in Barangay 69 Anibong who were playing three-on-three street basketball, apparently as their way

A startled “flying fox” soars as another one sleeps on a mangrove tree devastated by Typhoon Yolanda in what used to be a bat sanctuary in Tabuk Island off Palompon, Leyte in this photo taken Friday, 29 Nov 2013. Over
TABUK ISLAND, Palompon, Leyte (MindaNews / 29 November) – The devastation wrought by Typhoon Yolanda in this municipality is substantial, though fortunately the people heeded the call to seek refuge in stronger structures, resulting in only a few casualties. “But
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – More than half-way (three years and five months) into his six-year term, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III is facing one of the greatest, if not the greatest, challenge of his presidency – making
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November)– The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) chapters here and nearby South Cotabato province will temporarily suspend their relief campaigns for survivors of super typhoon “Yolanda” in parts of the Visayas region. Dixie Villar, PRC South Cotabato
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November)– The city government will deliver tomorrow (Saturday) P3.5 million in financial assistance to the local governments of Ormoc and Tacloban cities to assist the ongoing relief operations for survivors of super typhoon “Yolanda” in the
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November)–All is set for the “run-for-a-cause” this Sunday here for the victims of super typhoon “Yolanda,” an event organized by the Surigao Runners’ Club (SRC). All proceeds of the event, dubbed “Red Tie Run 2,” will go




