THE fishing community of Puente Bunglas, Ajuy, in the fifth district of Iloilo province, is one of the severely-devastated areas from Super Typhoon Yolanda. Yet, in the quaint public school, not one school record, book or teaching material was damaged.

More importantly, the young children were taught well to prepare both mind and body for the devastations of a super storm based on their lessons from Typhoon Frank in June 2008, which left 59 people killed in the province alone.

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