THESE are the top five government agencies with unused relief funds after Typhoon Yolanda (international codename Haiyan) struck the Philippines last year.
By now, the destruction wrought by the strongest typhoon ever recorded in modern Philippine history has been well documented.
In its wake, Yolanda had left at least 6,200 killed, 28,600 injured, and thousands more still buried in the rubble. Some 550,900 houses were destroyed and 589,400 more were damaged. In all, almost 16 million people were affected in 591 towns and 57 cities in 44 of the country’s 80 provinces. These figures are based on the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council’s (NDRRMC) situational report dated April 3, 2014.
INFOGRAPHICS by Cong B. Corrales
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A CHILD PIGGYBACKS on her mother in one of the villages devastated by the storm in Tacloban City. This photo was taken a week after Haiyan made landfall in Tacloban and other parts of the Visayas, killing thousands of people | Photo by Julius D. Mariveles