The tarpaulin barely held against the wind, sagging under days of ceaseless rain.
For the earthquake survivors of San Remigio, in the central Philippines, it was all that remained – a thin sheet of plastic above a patch of mud, standing in for the homes a 6.9-magnitude quake had reduced to rubble weeks earlier.
Then, in early November, Typhoon Kalmaegi barrelled through.
The storm, known locally as Tino, drenched thousands of families still huddled in their makeshift shelters. Roads vanished…
