Typhoon Haiyan – how do you rebuild after such destruction

Author(s)
Infante, V.
Publication language
English
Pages
7pp
Date published
15 Nov 2013
Publisher
The Guardian
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Disasters, Typhoons, Response and recovery, Shelter and housing, System-wide performance

 First things first: there are people to rescue, mouths to feed. Medical supplies to distribute, bodies to bury, law and order to reinstate. But what next? When the immediate threat from Typhoon Haiyan has passed and the rains have stopped, when the suddenly homeless of Tacloban take stock and regard the obliterated ruins of their city, where do you start? How do you rebuild a city?