Life after the mines: Residency rugs and the Ompong tree

LIFE after Typhoon Ompong has been hard, but a resilient heart and determined soul cannot keep good people down.

For the people of Itogon, life has to go on amidst the ban in small scale mining and the tale of these two families will give a glimpse of how people in crisis copes.

Twenty six–year-old Febralyn Dimas is the daughter of a miner in Itogon who was rendered jobless when the closure order for the mines came.

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