Chapter 2 – Weather Disturbances

Lesson 5 : Effects of Typhoon on the Community

Duration: 5 days

Activity 1: “Film Viewing”

Objective:

Describe the effects of typhoon on the community

What you need:

Videos, manila paper, pentel pen

What to do:
1. The pupils watch the videos.
2. Group the pupils into four.
3. The group will discuss what happen or what they observe on the videos they watched.
4. The group write all the effects of typhoon on the community.
5. The group will present their work.

Group 1 Group 2
Effects of typhoon on the people in the
community Effects of typhoon on the
environment in the community

Group 3 Group 4
Effects of typhoon on the people in the
community Effects of typhoon on the
environment in the community

Guide Questions:
1. What are the effects of typhoon on the people in the community?
 2. What are the effects of typhoon on the environment in the community?

Activity 2: “Do You Recall Me “

Objective:
Remember all the possible effects of typhoon on the people and in the environment
on the community.

What you need:

Folder, papers,

What to do:
1. Group yourself into three.
2. Each group will have their own folder.
3. The folder contain papers with the written effects of typhoon on the people and in the
environment on the community with the missing words in the sentence/s.
4. You will complete each sentence with the correct word/s.
5. The first group to finish will be the first one to discuss their work.

Effects of Typhoons:

1. People’s lives are in extreme danger during _____________. In many newspaper

reports, one reads about several deaths due to flooding or serious injury from being
hit by heavy objects.

2. Infrastructures like ___________ and ____________ in seriously affected areas may

be damaged beyond repair.

3. Fruit __________ are uprooted and other garden __________ are damaged.

4. Many crops are destroyed, thus, there is very few ___________.

5. Farm animals are left _____________.

6. Classes are _____________ to keep students safe in their ____________.

 7. Rain water can soften the soil and cause __________ which can bury lives and
properties.

Guide Question:
1. State/recite the effects of typhoon on the community.

Activity 3: “Are You Safe?“

Objective:
Describe the effects of typhoon on the community on different storm signal.

What you need:

*Role playing props

What to do:
1. Group I – Role playing (effects of Storm Signal No. 1)
2. Group II - Role playing (effects of Storm Signal No. 2)
3. Group III – Role playing (effects of Storm Signal No. 3)
4. Group IV – Role playing (effects of Storm Signal No. 4)

Guide Questions:
1. What are the effects of Storm Signal No. 1?
2. What are the effects of Storm Signal No. 2?
3. What are the effects of Storm Signal No. 3?
4. What are the effects of Storm Signal No. 4?

Activity 4: “Do You Know Me?“

Objective:
Prepares individual emergency kit.

What you need:

*Basic emergency kit
*Box

What to do:
 1. Each group have their own box at the front.
2. The box have different things included the things in the emergency kit.
3. The group form a line.
4. Each member of the group will get one thing in the box.
5. A thing that you think important to bring whenever there is an emergency.
6. At the count of three each member will get one thing in the box and put it on your
base.
7. The group will present and discuss the things they brought from the box, the use and
importance of each thing.

Guide Questions:

1. What are the most important things to prepare in case there is a typhoon/ emergency?

2. What is the use of each thing?

3. What is the importance of each thing in the emergency kit?

Activity 5: “Write it on”

Objectives:
1. Enumerate at least five effects of typhoon on the community.
2. Enumerate at least five things in the emergency kit.

What you need:

Paper and ball pen

What to do:
Answer the following:
1. Write five(5) effects of typhoon on the community.
2. Write five(5) things in the emergency kit.

Remember these:
 We need to know weather conditions to keep us safe.
 We enjoy outdoor activities only if we have fine weather. Sports, field trips, kite flying,
and camping are seldom held during rainy days. Weather helps you decide what games
you play.
 Knowledge on the weather forecast for the day also helps us make necessary
preparations.
 After the typhoons, affected communities took various coping strategies to survive,
including having multiple odd jobs; borrowing more from friends, relatives and informal
lenders; reducing food consumption. In some cases, children are no longer able to
attend school as families lack the money to cover school expenses and transportation
costs.

That is why, the study notes, many residents in the affected areas, even in danger
zones, are wary about relocating far away from their barangays (villages) or the city for
fear that they will not have livelihood in resettlement areas and have no access to basic
community services.

They also fear losing their current social support mechanisms – their network of friends,
neighbors and relatives who can help in times of difficulties.

After Ondoy and Pepeng, the government relocated some affected communities in
danger zones to various sites. The study conducted surveys in an off-city (outside Metro
Manila) resettlement area (Southville 5A, Lankiwa, Biñan, Laguna) and an in-city (within
Metro Manila) resettlement area (Eusebio Bliss, Pasig City) to compare the impact of
these two approaches on the welfare of resettled households.

Overall, respondents in both areas reported improvements in their living conditions:

better housing, improved access to sanitation, electricity, and garbage disposal. Access
to piped water was a serious challenge in both sites, as was access to livelihoods, the
study notes.

“Negative impacts were, however, stronger in the off-city resettlement area (Southville
5A), where two out of three households reported decreased income,” says the study.
“Those resettled off-city also experienced higher cost of living particularly due to higher
spending for transport in getting to work and school.”

Hence, the study says that, save for constraints like higher amortization rates,
communities generally considered in-city resettlement as the best option to enable
households to retain access to livelihood and employment opportunities as well as
minimize disruptions to essential social support networks.

Besides a general preference for in-city resettlement, communities covered in the social
impact study also highlighted the importance of strengthening local disaster
preparedness activities focusing on the following:
 • Putting in place a local system for relief and recovery operations;
• Inclusion of the entire community in disaster preparedness training; and
• Acquisition of basic equipment for relief operations.

Preparedness as key
Due to pre-emptive evacuations and emergency preparedness, the number of dead reported
remains slightly over 50, although the death and injury tolls may rise as more information
becomes available.
WHO determined the typhoons’ immediate impact on the health sector to be low with 30
health facilities damaged but functioning, however, other sectors, especially livelihoods, are
expected to have an important impact on the affected population’s vulnerability to health
impacts. For example, extensive damages to crops at harvest time in regions already badly
affected by the El Niño phenomenon are expected to increase food insecurity through March
2016.
This typhoon season is predicted to bring more intense typhoons as a result of El Niño; a
major global concern that WHO is monitoring closely due to the health risks associated with
extreme weather in different parts of the world. WHO Country Office in the Philippines is
committed to continuing its work with the Department of Health to strengthen disaster
preparedness and improve disease surveillance.
