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BY PRINCE GOLEZ
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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MANILA – A Senate bill seeks to declare Nov. 8 of every year as “Yolanda Commemoration Day” and a special nonworking public holiday in Eastern Visayas.
Super typhoon “Yolanda” ravaged Visayas on Nov. 8, 2013 and left 6,000 people dead and P571.1 billion worth of damage to properties.
“It is very important that we, as a country, honor the memory of the dead and as well as the selflessness of those who worked tirelessly and contributed resources to help Eastern Visayas,” said Juan Edgardo Angara, author of Senate Bill No. 1596.
“Those who perished are not statistics and those who worked in the recovery and rehabilitation efforts are true heroes who should never be forgotten,” he said.
If the bill is passed into law, there will be no classes and work in Tacloban City and Leyte, Biliran, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Western Samar, and Eastern Samar on Nov. 8 of every year.
A local executive order allowed for these areas to remember annually the devastation brought by the monster howler since 2014.
“We also carry a duty to remember this part of our history that killed, injured and displaced thousands of Filipinos,” said Angara.
“This is so that we will never forget how far we have come from the chaos and hardship of that fateful day due to Filipino resilience and the spirit of bayanihan,” he added./PN
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