Reference :
V-P-PH-E-00894
Date :
23/05/2014
Caption :
Rio Hondo. From a distance, the remains of this heavily damaged coastal village look like newly-planted mangrove trees. In fact, they are what remains of the houses on stilts where the Badjao and Tausug fishing communities used to live. Broken glass, heaps of soaked clothes and burnt-out houses are the only reminders of a once-vibrant fishing community in Rio Hondo. Former residents are no longer allowed to return after the government declared the area unsafe for rebuilding.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
ICRC web site - Philippines: Features of displacement 03-07-2014 Photo gallery
More than nine months after the end of the fighting between the Moro National Liberation Front and the Philippines government, over 40,000 people are still living in evacuation centres in Zamboanga. Behind these figures lie the lives that have been put on hold – the men and women who have lost their homes and livelihoods, the children and elderly people living under difficult conditions – all of them wondering when life will return to normal.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5616x3744
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
