the cartoon get wet hence we need to find a replacement. These shops already get mad at me because I keep on coming to ask for cartoons. It is also difficult here when the children defecate. People get mad at me here. They will told me “putang ina niyo, linisan niyo ‘yang mga tae niyo.” They get mad at me. I just keep silent, I don’t want to quarrel with them. Also, I felt bad when there relief goods distribution here and my children cannot get anything because they are telling them that they are yet small. Sometimes it is food. Our neighbors’ were able to receive food but my children did not. It is very painful for a mother. The sister of my husband told me to buy a cheap ticket going to Manila. There we could sell plastic and me and my daughter (12 year old) could get a job. People here also suspected me to have stolen the bag of one of the visitors. They hurt me even they don’t not have evidence. This really pushes me to leave and go to Manila. My wish with the government is we could go back to Marawi soon. My mother and my brother already got sich here. My children are also getting sick. And I hope the government will give us a house and help my children finish there studies. STORY OF SOLO PARENTS (IDPS) FATIMA LUMABAO Fatima, a mother of eight (8) children, whose four children are still missing namely: Norhoda Lumabao-22, Rashida Lumabao-21, Prencess Farhana Lumabao-16, Kadapi Lumabao10. Fatima, welcomed me into her tiny area at Buruun School of Fisheries (gym). And when I finally settle down and sit near her, she began by telling me that she used to live in General Santos for eleven (11) years. She and her family lived there and managed a small business enough to raise her family until her husband died. They had to leave GenSan and go home to Basac Malocloc, Marawi City. She narrated that all the money she raised while working in a Tuna company was poured into her small business selling ‘Pater’ and also in building their home in West Marinaut, Marawi City. After her husband’s death, she was left to take care of her family. She narated about their plight away from their home in Marawi. On May 23, 2017, she was still in Iligan City to attend to some business when she heard of the incident. She was so worried for her children who are left in their home while some are in the school at that time. Upon hearing the news, in the eve of May 23, 2017, she hurriedly went home to look for her children but was not allowed entry at Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur. It was difficult to contact her children until the battery went dead. On May 24, 2017, she managed to enter Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur and was not allowed entry at Basac Malocloc, she slept with her relative at Banggolo. On the next day she went to the Provincial Capitol of Marawi to check on her children with the help of some relatives she was reunited with her four (4) children. She kept on looking for her other four (4) children, contacted few of her friends to no avail the search proved futile. Due to lack of financial capacity to personally search for her children and the feeling of not knowing where they were, she was hospitalized for few days. She wanted to personally locate her children, but she is not capable of doing the same due to some financial issues and she is left with reporting her missing children with the Red Cross but up to the present, there are no leads as to their whereabouts. Fatima emphasized her gratefulness to the support she and her family have and is only focus on the most important thing, and that is to be reunited with her children who are still missing. 59