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33 Guinsaugon orphans graduate from HS
Thirty-three students from Guinsaugon in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte who were orphaned by the landslide that destroyed their village in 2006 have graduated from high school.
Disaster widows turn to Internet
ST. BERNARD, Southern Leyte – The tragedy that struck the village of Guinsaugon in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte, killed her husband and child, but Melody Zamora is slowly trying to forget the mudslide that buried her entire village and killed over a thousand people.
Most of Guinsaugon landslide orphans quit school -- DepEd
TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines -- Only 44 of the 103 students orphaned in the Guinsaugon landslide who availed of the Department of Education’s scholarship program have continued their studies, a report from the DepEd Eastern Visayas office shows.
Living dangerously with landslides
ST. BERNARD, Southern Leyte--Irenea Velasco could still vividly recall her ordeal when a massive landslide hit her village of Guinsaugon in St. Bernard in the morning of Feb. 17, 2006.
Leyte landslide site still hazardous 2 years-- scientist
TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines -- The Leyte village buried by a landslide that killed about a thousand of its inhabitants remains hazardous two years after the tragedy, a geoscientist said here.