During the onslaught of typhoon Yolanda, because of loss of livelihood some
women became vulnerable to human trafficking and prostitution. Participants
shared that some of the women who were victims of typhoon Yolanda are
currently working as entertainers in Angeles City.
Food security
During disasters such as typhoon, there is no food, shelter, water. Women and
their families succumb to hunger because there is no immediate response on the
part of the Government as to relief operations, especially in isolated areas. Poverty
arises because of lack of livelihood. If there is no food, women would do anything
for survival. There will be recruitment, trafficking, and women would enter into
illegal situations just to have food.
Specifically in Regions 10 and 4, lack of access to food and/or unequal food
distribution has been noted.
It was also noted that IPs are being discriminated in evacuation centers.
Health
Women, children, sick people and the elderly lack medical attention. It has been
observed that the government does not know how to treat bedridden women in
evacuation centers.
Yolanda devastation caused women to be subjected to severe trauma and poverty.
There were no services for psycho-social interventions.
Issues in Relation to Shelter
The need for shelter is not adequately addressed. Displaced families often find
themselves in school classrooms along with many other families, where males and
females are mixed. There are no adequate facilities for sanitation and other
necessities for living.
Situation in the evacuation centers does not allow for intimacy between spouses,
leading to increased sexual frustration and disintegration of marital relationships.
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