Thread by @cnnphilippines

Millions of children also caught up in the typhoon aftermath during a health crisis.

Find out how they are coping and what we can do to help with Jerome Balinton, Humanitarian Manager of Save the Children Philippines bit.ly/3EjSIyc

Balinton: Save the Children estimates that over 4 million Filipino children are severely affected by #OdettePH in Visayas and Mindanao. The devastation across these areas is far beyond anyone's expectation

Save the Children Philippines: There is a desperate need for food and water

Save the Children Philippines says some areas are already reporting water-borne diseases

Save the Children Philippines says #OdettePH has also affected children’s mental health, education

Save the Children Philippines: The government and the humanitarian organization should treat the situation as urgent, which needs urgent support

Save the Children Philippines: We can still make Christmas of the children special. It is by being able to help them have access to emergency shelter, food, water, healthcare, psychosocial support

Save the Children Philippines says those who want to help may donate to the organization through the following link/bank details:

Lao-Noche: Climate change is such a global phenomenon. Particularly in the PH, the thing about typhoons, as the heat content rises… it’s like gasoline being thrown to a typhoon… the more heat there is the the stronger the typhoon gets

Lao-Noche: We’re going to be seeing this for the next few decades. Unless we really do something to change the way we live, this will be our new normal

Lao-Noche: For those who can make long-term decisions, we need to think holistically about adapting to climate change

Lao-Noche: There are a lot of things we have to do, like implementing building codes properly, have preparations in terms of stocking canned goods, water. We already know it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of kailan siya mangyayari

Lao-Noche: Because the PH just happens to be in a double whammy. We’re in the equator which gets hotter than most places around the world plus we are surrounded by ocean… As the typhoon moves along the oceans, it gains more strength as it gets through heat

Lao-Noche: This is what the models have been telling us… We are now seeing the models in real life