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Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda Crisis and Relief Map

Mon, 2013-12-09 09:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

http://google.org/crisismap/a/gmail.com/TyphoonYolanda

Published by GBG/GDG/GSA Communities of the Philippines

Crowdsourced map of evacuation centers, crisis areas, and relief drop zone areas in relation to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda.

More information available from www.gov.ph

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Philippines Trying to Learn Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan

Wed, 2013-11-27 12:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

But between residents who don't understand the dangers and political infighting, that may be difficult.

Pel Tecson, mayor since May of Tanauan town, Leyte island, the Philippines, looks out from his battered town hall balcony over Tanauan, smashed by a Typhoon Haiyan. The city council passed a resolution Monday making a non-build zone from the shoreline to 50 meters inland. The need for relocation of vulnerable communities is the big lesson to be learned from the experience, Tecson said. (Photo: Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY)

usatoday.com - by Calum MacLeod - November 23, 2013

. . . Despite small signs that this area is recovering, life remains far from normal for countless Filipinos who have struggled through days of horror and hunger. More than 5,000 people died in the typhoon, and hundreds more are missing. The survivors are wondering when they'll have their lives back. . .

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Research - Folding Saris to Filter Cholera-Contaminated Water

Tue, 2013-11-26 10:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

RESEARCH - PNAS - Reduction of cholera in Bangladeshi villages by simple filtration - January 14, 2003

The New York Times - by Abigail Zuger, M.D. - September 26, 2011

Rural Bangladeshi women often pour sweetened drinks through a piece of sari cloth to get rid of leaves, insects and other visible debris. But disease-causing micro-organisms are thousands of times smaller than the pores in the fabric and slip right through.

About 10 years ago, a team of researchers in Maryland and Bangladesh came up with a ridiculously simple solution: Wash and fold the sari. Four thicknesses of laundered sari fabric, with its loosened, roughened cotton fibers, will strain out most of the microscopic plankton in water. In water contaminated by cholera, enough bacilli are attached to plankton for the quantity of cholera in filtered water to drop by more than 99 percent.

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