Philipino mother’s anguish at her daughter’s pain

“Always be ready for anything, you never know what will happen to you.”

Clutching a Padre Pio prayer book, young Philippine mother-of-two Hilda Marchadesch shares these words of advice from her hospital bed, gritting her teeth with the pain and holding back tears.

Her leg is fractured in several places, her limbs bruised and slashed. But the real suffering is for her daughter, Angela, 7, left with a hole in her head after the impact of Typhoon Haiyan.