Philippines: After Haiyan

A year after Typhoon Haiyan, we return to the hardest hit areas and ask if enough is being done to help storm survivors.

The horror of Typhoon Haiyan is never far from Angela Toliba’s mind.

She was 12 years old when she lost both her parents in the storm; 380 kilometre winds and terrifying waves surged into her hometown, Tanauan, on November 8, 2013.

A year on, she lives in a small hut near the shore where emergency workers found her father’s body. "Sometimes when I swim, I feel like I step on hands, feet and fingers in the sand," she says.

This Saturday marks one year since Haiyan, which was the most powerful typhoon to ever hit the Philippines.

More than 6,000 people were killed, and millions displaced; entire towns were flattened on the central islands of Leyte and Samar.