Determining our locations

Our research has directed us towards the northern and middle islands of the Philippines: Luzon and the Visayas.
Typhoons are the mayor problem in the northern and middle parts of the Philippines, hitting these areas on average 19 times every year, leading to mayor destruction, flooding, landslides and displacement. We have found some potentially interesting places, hit by different storms in the last couple of years. Ilo-ilo could be interesting, and quite close is Bacolod. Legazpi city is another opportunity or, close to Manila, is Cavite. We are in the process of establishing contact with local organisations and institutions to help us with our cases.

Since Typhoons are a yearly encounter for the Philippines (from June to September), we expect to find a well established disaster response system. It will be interesting to see how this works and what political forces drive the systems.