A long road to recovery for the people of the Philippines

FILIPINOS are used to a seemingly never-ending pattern of storms, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions, but typhoon Haiyan is now officially one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country.

Some even suggest the clean-up from the 200mph typhoon will be the Philippines’ biggest reconstruction job since the Second World War.

More than 13m people were affected including 5.4m children, according to the UN. There’s a discussion emerging though that we as a global community are now all responsible for adverse weather related disasters. Furthermore, an uncoordinated government response and aid effort on the Pacific islands has clearly inhibited relief efforts.