5 different. Many of the old buildings were demolished and rebuilt into brand new expensive condominiums. Such apartments are so expensive that none of the old residents can afford to live there so rents have increased and people have left. What is sad is that most of the residents moved out because many of them lost everything from their livelihoods to their homes. Q10: What was your involvement in Yolanda operations? A10: Just weeks after Typhoon Yolanda hit, I joined Gabriela Philippines through their relief program Lingap Gabriela. We went in a caravan with truckloads of supplies to Tacloban on a psychosocial medical mission for a few days. The journey to get down there by land was hard and long. Gabriela has a chapter there in Palo and we heard of areas not receiving any aid or response from their local government unit. So we set up a station to distribute dry foods and rice, conduct psychosocial counseling, do health checks and give out medicines, and engage with the children in activities to help them process their emotions. We also went to one of the mass graves, which was really heartbreaking as there were children playing there to stay close to their parents who had been killed in the typhoon. I witnessed the lack of food and medicine, vitamins, and other personal hygiene kits for the families. It was upsetting to know a lot of relief goods were not being distributed. They do not get the immediate basic care from the government. The community was really ruined by the typhoon. Q11: Do you have any idea about climate change? A11: Climate change has been progressively on the decline since my adult years. Hurricane George was my first wake up call. Now we see these tornados coming to Brooklyn. And every year now, hurricanes come hit the east coast of the United States and all across the Philippines more frequently. Experts report direct correlations to pollution and gas emissions, overproduction of goods, no-regulation of factories, and lack of corporate social responsibility. I also know and have seen the effects of mining for natural resources in my parents’ provinces and how that creates an imbalance in the natural ecosystem as well, causing landslides, earthquakes, and massive flooding not to mention the silt that destroys the lakes where there once were fish. There are chemicals and leeching of other poisons into drinking water -- all of these are related to the corporate irresponsibility. They extract minerals for processing and profit gail while producing and excess of goods regardless of whether we even need these products. There is massive waste produced as a result. Moreover, their decision to keep on drilling kills marine lives, and the garbage from these companies contributes to the destruction of the nature and wildlife. There is a clear correlation for me and documented by scientists and researchers between what transnational companies are doing and the impacts on climate change.