His head bent as he plays with the red laces of his tattered sneakers, 13-year-old Joshua Villanueva haltingly recounts how he lost both his parents and two younger sisters last November. Now living ...

TACLOBAN, Philippines -- The teenager with unruly hair in a ponytail wipes tears from her eyes as she holds her feverish 3-year-old brother, who clings to her and lets out a sob. They have been ...

Children will soon benefit from the efforts of workers of all ages who packaged 20,500 meals April 2 at New Day Christian Church to send to an orphanage in the Philippines. Members of the congregation ...

To the editor: Kudos to The Times for covering the horror of the Philippines’ 1.8 million abandoned children, many of whom live in squalid and unsafe conditions, hoping one day to have the families ...

A group of children whose parents died in the Philippine government's war against drugs gathered for a "spiritual retreat" recently in an attempt to overcome trauma. "The purpose was to expose [the ...

BASEY Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - His head bent as he plays with the red laces of his tattered sneakers, 13-year-old Joshua Villanueva haltingly recounts how he lost both his parents ...

Joshua Villanueva, 13, stands in Basey on Oct. 14, 2014, on the spot where his house stood before it was destroyed a year ago by Typhoon Haiyan. Joshua, who now lives with his grandparents and a ...