Mud and ruin in Tacloban
TACLOBAN, Philippines, 13 November 2013 – I have been working on emergencies for more than 15 years now, and I seriously thought I had seen it all. But flying into Tacloban on Monday as part of a United Nations assessment team, I was in for a shock. As the plane taxied along the bare runway, I could see mud and ruin – only mud and ruin – where…