IT was a painful and difficult story for Josephine, 15 years old, and her father Jose to tell. I sat on a small plastic chair in their small one roomed house built from the wreckage of Haiyan (Yolanda) the greatest typhoon ever to hit land. Josephine sat close to her father Jose who was aged beyond his years.

When I arrived in their little home made of plywood sheets with Francis Bermido Jr., the Preda executive director, Jose was repairing an electric motor, it was his only source of livelihood for his surviving children.

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