The recovery is due in large part to charitable work by Sailors’ Society, which responded to the devastation in the Visayas region of the Philippines, where about 70% of families have someone working at sea.
Haiyan was the most devastating typhoon in the Philippines’ history. It claimed 6,300 lives and affected 12.9 million people, leaving homes, families and communities devastated. Thousands of local seafarers who were at sea when the typhoon struck were left feeling helpless about what had happened to loved ones at home.
