20,000 disaster survivors to join Yolanda event in Tacloban

MANILA, Philippines - Survivors of various disasters in the country will converge in Tacloban City on a two-day rally to commemorate the first year anniversary of the super typhoon Yolanda landfall in Eastern Visayas.

 

Members of People Surge, an alliance of Yolanda survivors, said they are expecting other survivors of calamities, such as typhoons Pablo and Sendong as well as those from Zamboanga siege and Bohol earthquake, to join the event.

 

The group said that the survivors will also aim to form a national wide alliance of disaster survivors during the event to demand accountability of the Aquino administration.

 

The group said that the 20,000 participants of the event from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will be welcomed by Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romuladez.

 

People Surge said that it is now on the final stage of its preparations for the November 7 and 8 rallies to commemorate the first year of Yolanda where they will burn the effigy of President Benigno Aquino III.

 

The group earlier demanded that President Aquino to step down due alleged graft ridden transactions of the national government to reconstruct the places devastated by Yolanda.