{"id":395,"date":"2015-03-17T03:09:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T03:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communitere.org\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:39:44","slug":"glints-of-hope-emerge-in-typhoon-hit-philippines-city-tacloban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communitere.org\/glints-of-hope-emerge-in-typhoon-hit-philippines-city-tacloban\/","title":{"rendered":"Glints of hope emerge in typhoon-hit Philippines city Tacloban"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sitting on a wooden stool as his customers mill around clutching burgers and bottles of San Miguel beer, Jacques Palami talks enthusiastically about life in Tacloban a year after the central Philippines town was slammed by Typhoon Haiyan.<\/p>\n
Owner of the brightly-lit pop-up bar Na Ning, Palami is one of a growing number of victims of the strongest storm on record to hit land who are committed to rebuilding the coastal town that many feared was beyond repair.<\/p>\n
Palami, 26, lost his childhood home and two relatives in the typhoon that destroyed 90 percent of Tacloban after it hit land on Nov 8, killing, or leaving missing, some 7,000 people.<\/p>\n