Her mother, Nihara Ibrahim, and father, Saidamen Azis Macadaya, had to leave for Laguna where they work as vendors. The Macadaya family was just one of around 14,000 families whose houses were destroyed during the war in Marawi. Their luck came last week when they were among the 60 families who won the slot to occupy the newly-finished temporary shelters at Area 7 of Biyaya ng Pagbabago Temporary Shelter Site in Barangay Sagonsongan here. “Those who cannot be accommodated in the temporary shelters were sent to their homes in the province (called Send Home Program),” Gandamra said. But maybe the mother could just return and say in Marawi, considering that the child’s grandmother was already old.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 21, 2018 12:33 UTC