Officials and representatives of Pagcor and the local government of New Bataan, Davao de Oro during the groundbreaking ceremony of the two-story Pagcor-funded evacuation facility, which will soon rise in the town’s Barangay Panag. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
EVEN before typhoons and heavy rainfall would ravage their community, 73-year-old cacao pruner Estrella Alonzo had already prepared her family's go-bags in case they need to move to safer ground.