55 find it hard to concentrate during the day, and loss of school days due to physical and mental health impact, and higher dropout rates due to pressure on household incomes, for example.The government has identified damages incurred from disasters as one of the key causes of shortages of classrooms and school materials as well.Typhoon Haiyan damaged or destroyed over three thousand (3,000) schools and day care center. Many large schools were also taken over as evacuation centers, and this resulted in a sudden disruption in education for more than a million preschool and school-aged children.259 c. Indigenous Peoples The UN recognizes that indigenous peoples are at the “front lines of climate change” because they understand what climate change means for societies, ecosystems, and cultures as inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures.260 Despite their unique role in conservation, indigenous communities are uniquely at risk because of the changing climate. Indigenous people are significantly impacted by climate change owing to their dependence on climate-sensitive resources and deep cultural relationships with the environment.261 Between 14-17 million Filipinos belong to more than a hundred ethno-linguistic groups.262 Environmental degradation due to climate change doubly affects indigenous communities as the environment is a natural extension of their livelihood, survival, and cultural identity. For instance, the Mangyans, an indigenous group that relies on fruit farming for their livelihood, have been heavily affected by climate change. Due to extreme heat, the group has been unable to produce and sell their usual agricultural products–bananas and coconuts. Often, banana trees wilt and die or produce fruits that are too thin to sell while coconut trees bear fruits with no coconut meat.263 259 T.S.N. of the Fifth Inquiry Hearing dated 6-10 November 2018, at 4-6. 260 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Indigenous Empowerment is Vital for Climate Action (Aug. 9, 2017), available at https://unfccc.int/news/indigenous-empowerment-is-vitalfor-climate-action. 261 United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change: The Effects of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples, available at https://www.un.org/development/ desa/indigenouspeoples/climate-change.html (last accessed Nov. 11, 2019). 262 United Nations Development Programme Philippines, Fast Facts - Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines (2013), available at https://www.undp.org/content/dam/philippines/docs/Governance/ fastFacts6%20-%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20in%20the%20Philippines%20rev%201.5.pdf. 263 Norberto Escares, Community Dialogue in Verde Island Passage, June 2018.