PH schools face risks few other systems in the world deal with

Schools in the Philippines regularly face challenges few other educational systems around the world have to deal with: frequent exposure to different kinds of hazards or disasters. Schools are battered every year by typhoons and floods. In some areas, they have to somehow go through an academic year amid the threat of armed conflict. There are other kinds of natural disasters and hazards that don’t happen quite as often as typhoons, and many of our schools deal with these as well. There are landslides, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and storm surges.

Read the rich data on the topic shared by Clarissa David and Antonio Paguirigan Jr in their Thought Leaders piece for Rappler.