September 30,2009. These images were taken in Barangay Tumana, Marikina, an urban poor section in Manila, Philippines. Only after three days after storm ONDOY/KETSANA left the country did the people in this community recieve any help. We also saw a Korean Church Relief operation and its long line of residents awaiting the rice distribution. We also rode with a bunch of college students from Sta. Scholastica College, a Catholic school in Manila. They were going to distribute whatever goods they had managed to gather from their classmates. There was a dead body of an unknown woman on the street. The rescue team had placed a sign on her covered her body giving a short description of what she was wearing at that time. It seemed that she was not from Tumana bec no one knew her. The devastation was everywhere: soggy matresses, wet clothes on windows, balconies, furniture strewn everywhere. Many residents also had wounds from the sharp objects that had floated during the flooding.
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