Batad children traumatized (Panay News)

BY KIM BLUE SAMONTANES Typhoon Yolanda Story Hub Visayas

YOUNG TYPHOON SURVIVOR Jonathan (not his real name) of Batad, Iloilo cries every time it rains. He screams for a plastic basin where his mother put him to save him from drowning when super typhoon “Yolanda” plowed their village. PHOTO BY KIM BLUE SAMONTANES, TYPHOON YOLANDA STORY HUB VISAYAS

BATAD, Iloilo – Every time the rain pours and no matter how light, Jonathan (not his real name), a two-year-old boy, panics and cries, “Mama, labador, labador! (Mama, grab a tub, a tub!).”

“Nagahibi na lang na sia kung mag-ulan kay nakulbaan na sa natabo (He cries when it rains, scared of what happened),” said Jonathan’s mom after super typhoon “Yolanda” tore through their village of Alinsolong on November 8. Read the rest of the story here.