 Disintegration of marital relationships because of lack of intimacy and increased sexual frustration at the evacuation center, even resulting to domestic violence including sexual abuse and marital rape.  In times of war, women and children are harassed and sexually abused in the evacuation areas.  The immediate help that is provided is food, and the specific needs of women (sanitary napkins, other necessities for personal hygiene) are not addressed. There are no health care kits or dignity kits distributed to them.  Lack of proper hygiene in evacuation centers makes it dangerous for pregnant women.  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.  During the onslaught of typhoon Yolanda, aside from loss of livelihood and access to health services, some women became vulnerable subjects for 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.  Yolanda devastation caused women to be subjected to severe trauma and poverty. There were no services for psycho-social interventions.  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.  It has been noted that IPs are being discriminated in evacuation centers. The children also suffer from specific vulnerabilities. Among those pointed out are:  Disruption in education  Children are exposed to trafficking, child labor and prostitution  Depression, trauma, self-pity and sickness. Children are more prone to diseases in the evacuation centers. Psycho-social debriefing or rehabilitation is sorely lacking. 12

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