A year after the hurricane haiyan

A year after the hurricane that ravaged the Philippines Haiyan, draws tens of thousands of survivors Saturday to neighboring areas of mass graves to commemorate their relatives who were buried there. Crisostomo said Josephine, 41, who lost her three children in the cyclone, "I miss a lot to my children ... I miss them I love them very much." Like the others, came to Tacloban to pray near the mass graves hastily buried where more than two thousand bodies. Said Lilia Aolajaa (77 years), which lost in the hurricane adoptive daughter and her grandson, "getting two, eat my food and accommodated to bed early, because I am not a stronger likelihood of unity in the night." Organizing several "Masses" across the country She explained Elena Aulindan (50 years), which was shed tears and scrutinize the code names on the mass graves in a small football field, "looking for my brother, but his name is not included in the list of those who are buried here." And soon found the Cross does not carry a name near the cemetery and dug him her brother's name. And on the pitch, was held in the morning Mass, followed by the launch of balloons and doves. In the Philippines, which constitutes a majority of the Catholic population, a large section of the people involved, all over the country and not only in the affected areas, in Masses held on Saturday morning in this anniversary. 7350 dead and thousands missing He said the mayor of Tacloban individual Dz Romualdez that these masses are necessary for neighborhoods. He told AFP that "it is difficult for them, because they had the hand of chance to survive, but on the other hand have lost their loved ones, in some cases, their homes and livelihoods." And won the disaster that occurred on the eighth of November 2013, more than 7350 people dead. Hurricane Haiyan, who are in the Pacific, the Philippine Islands, the center of the archipelago has been hit coincided with waves flooded the coast and violent winds swept an unprecedented whole cities. And live about 14 million people, or nearly 15% of the population in the affected area, which is among the poorest regions of the Philippines, known as agriculture and fishing. Assistance from non-governmental organizations Millions of neighborhoods still without homes and means of livelihood available to them, have been exposed to more risk if I got a new hurricanes. But re-Alaatmar efforts began to bear fruit, as can be seen in some places. The coastal city of Tacloban has become distorted by the passage of Hurricane Haiyan, today resemble any locality in the Philippines, through Achtnaqatha traffic and crowding markets and commercial centers crowded and long queues at the entrances to the fast food restaurants. In the countryside, seeing rice fields mowers intensive agricultural seasons which allowed millions of people to survive, while the national non-governmental organizations and international funded the construction of thousands of new housing. The need to transfer a million people to safe places Peter said Ennio, a senior official in the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) "If this happens in other countries in the region, the reconstruction of what was fast to limit this process certainly." But the recovery of the local economy will take years, as the hurricane destroyed the coconut fields and fishing ports, the most prominent sectors that provide jobs. The median family income in the region, the lowest 25% of the average national income before the hurricane, according to government statistics also. And increased the gap to widen. The experts stress the need for a permanent transfer of a million people from areas prone to a lot of storms, has taken the government's plan for the reconstruction of these data in mind, but it adds more complexity to the problem and slow down its progress.