In 2011, San Francisco in Camotes Island, Cebu, won the UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction for its purok system MANILA, Philippines – Disaster response can only be as effective as town ...
Rappler visits San Francisco town in the Camotes Islands, famed for its zero casualty during Typhoon Yolanda, to find out what they're doing right Voices break out in laughter in a small corner of San ...