Students suffer in cramped makeshift rooms in Haiyan areas

As classes resume in public schools nationwide, thousands of students in the central Philippines begin the school year in tents and makeshift classrooms. Seven months after Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) devastated the region, more than 20,000 classrooms still need to be rebuilt or repaired. The government said it encountered delays due to higher building standards. In Tacloban City, one of the hardest-hit areas, children cram into temporary classrooms made from steel frames and corrugated iron sheets as the temperature outside hit 30 degrees Celsius. Hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in makeshift shelters.

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