June is the World Environment Week, Greenpeace Southeast Asia launched a photo exhibition that documents the global realities of climate change. Entitled Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions in Southeast Asia, the images show the impacts of climate change in vulnerable countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Children cross a stream at a relocation site in Cagayan de Oro, Northern Mindanao.
©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
A heartbreaking note and some family memorabilia are all that was left in an abandoned house near the Cagayan de Oro River in Mindanao. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
A lone house stands testament to the devastation caused by the strong flashfloods in Isla de Oro in Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao. The whole district was almost wiped out from the map after Typhoon Sendong's 10-hour torrential rains triggered flash floods and mudslides throughout the night, killing more than 1000 people. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
Children take a nap under the benches of Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City, Metro Manila. Families from low-lying districts had to vacate their homes due to the flooding caused by the three-day torrential monsoon rains in August of 2012. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
Children drenched in rain line up as private citizens distribute relief goods in Marikina City at the height of the Southwest monsoon rains in 2012. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
Residents and other evacuees from different areas in Marikina City squeeze in, hoping to get relief good from private donors. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace
Children take advantage of clean water from the local government of Marikina City inside an evacuation center. ©Veejay Villafranca/Greenpeace