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/ 16 February 2007

Hope and despair one year after Philippine mudslide

Ricardo Sibunga works tirelessly under a steady downpour, his sweat and tears mixing as he and 20 men and women race against time to finish a small chapel on a muddy patch that was once a thriving farming village in the central Philippines. They work with manual tools, hauling sand and bricks from a river bed 1km away, a token sacrifice for a monument to honour over 1 000 of their friends.