write a short story about a group of people who survive a natural ot man-made disaster and land up on a desert island for a month till they are rescured
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On Oct. 20, Super Typhoon Haima blasted Cagayan province in Luzon — the northernmost island in the Philippines — with torrential rain, 140-mph winds, and wind gusts up to 195 mph. When the storm died down and the skies cleared, survivors began picking up the pieces of their lives to begin again. More than 200,000 families are affected — almost a million people, the national disaster management agency says.
World Vision communicator Joy Maluyo shares stories from a teenage boy, a farmer, and a mom that run the gamut of human emotions from fear, grief, and worry to ultimately resolve and resilience.
There’s no getting used to emergency communications work
At the end of the day, survivors’ stories keep coming back to me. They prompt me to pray, to write them the best I can, and to hope that the next time I can do more. I talked to a boy in Solana, Cagayan, [North Luzon island, the Philippines] who touched my heart. Super Typhoon Haima’s fury destroyed his family’s home.
His classes will resume today, but he won’t be there.
“I wanted to go to school, but all my clothes were soaked. All my school materials were damaged when our house collapsed,” he told me.
This boy has dreams. I saw it in the way he held his damaged books and tried to dry his notebook. I saw it when he talked about the pain of watching his siblings trying to cope with the disaster and its effects and how he cried when I asked about his hopes. When he smiled at the sight of relief supplies carried by his mother, Elena, I smiled, too.
A mentor once told me that I couldn’t just interview people and walk away. Their story has to be told. The numbers we cite need to have names and faces.
He has a name. He has a face. He is not just one of the almost 1 million people affected by Typhoon Haima. He is Santiago.