March 20, 2015
Philippines
Children in the Philippines are back in class
"The school looks frightful. Even after a year since typhoon Haiyan, some buildings remain without a roof, and the classrooms are unequipped. Teachers were writing learning material on a sheet of paper or wood stuck to a wall instead of a blackboard", Melinda Gad-Tabuco explained after her first visit to the school in July 2014. As an adminstrator, she was in charge of reorganizing the Integrated School in Burgos. But everything had changed.