Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Even when relief goods arrive, the immediate help that is provided is food. 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.
2.
During disasters such as typhoon, there is no food, shelter, water.
Effect of natural disasters, climate change and/ or development aggression
on children
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.
3.
Some cases where children commit crimes, turn to drugs, are noted.
In areas of armed conflict, children are recruited as soldiers/combatant
VAW during armed conflict or during disasters
Although the groups could not pinpoint specific documented cases of VAW during these
times, they shared that there is high incidence of trafficking and prostitution of women
and girls after the occurrence of a disaster or armed conflict. In Regions 1, 4, 5, and 7,
(26.66% of the regional FGDs) the participants shared that accounts of violence have
been observed towards victims of calamities and displacements but many of these are
usually unreported and undocumented. Consequently, these are not addressed.
Prostitution, labor exploitation and early marriages occur. Reports of extrajudicial
killings have been observed in Region 7. Cases of drug abuse also become widespread. In
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