It is becoming more than a little worrisome to hear the complaints and see the conditions in the two principal provinces that Yolanda struck – Leyte and Samar. It seems that no real progress has been made in shelter and livelihood. If we are worried about unemployment and poverty as the headlines have been telling us lately, here is the place to start a massive program to provide both and at least dent those statistics of underdevelopment a bit. I leave out medical services though they are not all that abundant but the foreign and local non-government organizations are present and at work delivering them, whether in makeshift hospitals like tents or shipping containers. Hospitals in place are getting some attention too from the Department of Health.