POWER OF THE PEN DURING TYPHOON YOLANDA
Where the power of the pen may have had a humanitarian impact This year it will be 10 years since Typhoon Yolanda hit Tacloban City and surrounding areas in the province of Leyte in the southern Philippines.1000 s perish and so much destruction that I had never experienced before. I was working as an ex-pat in Egypt when the Typhoon struck and I arrived back in the Philippines within two days. I needed to get my wife and her family to a safe place, but others were suffering with no food or medical supplies. My residence was 40 km from Tacloban. The relief effort was highly concentrated in Tacloban but 1000’s of people lived in outlying areas. The American Military was doing a great job but in the early relief, all efforts were concentrated around Tacloban City. I did not think it would have an effect but I sent a report to CNN Philippines, which had American reporters on the ground, including Anderson Cooper. CNN PRODUCER NOTE Australian resident Robby59, who now works in Egypt, fac