Government's Rehab Program for Yolanda

Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda was recorded by world meteorologists as the strongest storm.

It has been a year....it devastated portions of Central Philippines, on November 8, 2013.

Recently, the people from Leyte offered prayers in the memory of their loss. Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in this devastated city marks the first anniversary of the killer storm.

Known to be the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record killing about 6,300 people alone. About 4 million went homeless.

Guiuan, Samar, Tanauan, Palo and Tacloban were the most devastated.

Tacloban is one of the hardest hit city. After a year they still struggle rebuilding their homes.

Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reportedly released a total of P52 billion to support government relief and rehabilitation efforts in affected provinces.

Also in the news is the strong political conflict which rooted from the issue - President Pnoy is an Aquino and the Tacloban Mayor is a Romualdez.

And that help supposedly to rebuild Tacloban was not provided.

I saw the situation in Tacloban and that support given as seen on TV was not 100% true.

During my stay in Tacloban last September I directly heard personal stories of the people from Tacloban.

According to them, there's really big help but it is not coming from the local government.

Many are disappointed because of the slow response. Plus there are people saying that the true death count is much more than what is recorded.

...that President Aquino choose to bring donations to Palo instead in Tacloban.

...that when President Aquino went to Tacloban he didn't stay that long. He was not sincere to know the real situation.

It is the non-government organizations coming from other countries who are giving them help.

One of the most active NGO's are Tzu Chi Foundation and GMA Foundation.

Local government has provided transitional homes as temporary comfort.

They distributed hectares for relocation, but still the national government shows a lot of deficiencies

It only shows that they have not yet acted on providing permanent houses.

After a year the people needs true help. This is a call to the government to give assistance and forget about the political issues.