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New classrooms remain bleak for Andap grade schoolers
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/07 June) – Children enrolled at the Andap Elementary School here will have to bear holding classes in makeshift classrooms inside the Andap National High School… »
Back to school
Elena Estrada and her Grade 3 pupils assist carpenters as they install a tarpaulin to catch water leaks from the roof of their makeshift classroom in Andap Elementary School on… »
Rampaging Waters
Residents of Barangay Andap in New Bataan, Compostela Valley cross the makeshift bamboo footbridge as the road leading to the town proper from the mountain village was blocked to direct… »
In New Bataan, the nightmare is far from over
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/23 January) – Fifty-three-year-old farmer Clemente Dulce sat on a pew at the San Antonio de Padua parish late Tuesday afternoon, wondering if he would still… »
Through Floodwaters
Motorists navigate through the flooded road in Brgy Osmena in Compostela town in Compostela Valley Province on Sunday, January 20. Heavy rains triggered flooding in the Davao region. Photo courtesy… »
FEATURE: Remembering ComVal
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — Strangely, I always associate Compostela Valley with Mawab, a once tiny village settled along the Davao-Butuan highway. Mawab, created as a regular municipality in 1959,… »
DSWD yields to protesters’ demand for 10,000 sacks of rice for Pablo victims
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 Jan) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development has responded to protesters’ call in Montevista, Compostela Valley that the government should supply Typhoon Pablo… »
NBI returns to get DNA samplings from exhumed remains, relatives
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/15 January) – The forensics team of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has returned here to get DNA samplings from the exhumed remains of unidentified… »
40 Days after Pablo in New Bataan
A girl lights a candle in Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Compostela valley in a spot where many lives perished when Typhoon Pablo struck Mindanao’s eastern seaboard on Dec. 4, 2012.… »
Learning Spaces
Tents from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) serve as temporary “learning spaces” at Cabinuangan Central Elementary School. Some of the province’s schools were destroyed when super typhoon Pablo hit… »
New Bataan: Tent City
A month after typhoon Pablo hit New Bataan, Compostela Valley province, some survivors have been moved from the gymnasium to these tents at the grounds of the New Bataan National… »
“We don’t have to sit back and wait for the next storm”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – For a couple of years now, astrogeophysicist Fr. Daniel McNamara, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of the Ateneo de Davao University, had… »
In New Bataan, they buried the dead, finally, but temporarily
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/28 December) –They finally buried the dead three weeks after super typhoon Pablo hit this town on December 4, but only temporarily. At the public cemetery… »
Psychosocial Processing
A psychologist from the Center for Psychological Extension and Research Services (COPERS) of the Ateneo de Davao University interacts with one of the young survivors of Typhoon Pablo in New… »
Souvenir Shots
People flock to typhoon-devastated areas in New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province Ð like these people spotted 27 Dec 2012 in Barangay Andap where rocks, boulders and raging waters washed away… »
Precious Water
These boys brave the strong river currents just to bring drinking water from the town proper to Purok 8 in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province on Thursday. Purok 8 is… »
WAYWARD AND FANCIFUL: The bagyo boys of New Bataan
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 Dec) — Kagawad Boy Polinar, his wife and I were surveying what used to be three blocks of houses in Purok 4, Barangay Poblacion, New Bataan in… »
‘Pablo’ to exact P9.6B value losses in 2013–MinDA
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/ 23 December)—Typhoon “Pablo” would exact an estimated value losses of P9.6 billion for 2013 in areas hardest hit by the disaster, according to the Mindanao Development Authority… »
POETRY: 3 X Pablo. by Ricardo M. de Ungria
3 X Pablo by Ricardo M. de Ungria [Ricardo M. de Ungria teaches at the University of the Philippine-Mindanao in Davao City. He was Chancellor at UP Mindanao (2001-07) and… »
From the land of war ‘bakwits,’ help for Typhoon Pablo’s ‘bakwits’
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/20 December) – “Noon, kami ang palaging tinutulungan. Kami naman ngayon ang tutulong” (We were always given assistance before. Now it’s our turn to help). Officials… »
Back to Business
This barbershop within the public market of Montevista town, Compostela Valley Province is back to business on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, two weeks after Typhoon Pablo battered this town. Most… »
Refreshing
Survivors of Typhoon Pablo in an evacuation center in Compostela town, Compostela Valley province get a free shower from a Tagum City fire truck. The project, scheduled in different… »
Pablo aftermath: Davao banana farmers suffer ‘double whammy’
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 Dec) – Small banana farmers in the Davao Region suffered a “double whammy” of devastation brought by typhoon “Pablo” and the financial crisis in rehabilitating… »
Changing Lives and Landscapes
Almost a year after Typhoon Sendong ( Washi) struck the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the northern part of Mindanao on December 16-17, 2011, another disaster hit… »
Tents for students whose classrooms were destroyed by Pablo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — Students in elementary and high school whose classrooms were destroyed by Typhoon Pablo on December 4 will be holding classes in tents, soon, the Department… »
Andap Then and Now
Left photo shows Barangay Andap in New Bataan from the road to Maragusan town, also in Compostela Valley Province in March 1, 2011. Right photo taken December 6 shows the… »
Rice shortage looms in ComVal’s remote Laak town
LAAK, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/ 9 December)– Rice shortage is looming in this remote town as Typhoon Pablo has devastated 2,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields in Barangay Kidawa, considered the… »
Soldiers used to typhoons shocked by ‘Pablo’s’ fury
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/ 9 December) — “Maayo pa ang gyera sini kay makalikay pa, pero ining bagyo waay gid kami paadtuan (War is better because we can hide,… »
Sheer Size
A resident is dwarfed by a giant acacia tree felled by Typhoon Pablo at the roadside in Laak town in Compostela Valley Province on Dec. 8, 2012. MindaNews photo by… »
Hundreds of New Bataan villagers still looking for missing kin feared buried in minefield, elsewhere
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/8 December)– Carrying a food pack she just received from a government agency, Perlita Capinig reported to the local disaster desk that her 25-year old son… »
