A boy sits on a rock beside a river that overflowed and swept away nearby homes, as residents and officials of Lope de Vega in Northern Samar asked for help in the wake of Tropical Depression ‘Usman’. Mayor Anna Tan-Palloc said they are in need of housing materials, food, water, hygiene kits, and used clothing after “Usman” brought heavy rains and floods to their town. Ronald O. Reyes
