Philippines' typhoon orphans struggle with trauma a year on
By Thin Lei Win
BASEY, Philippines, Nov 5 (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 and two younger sisters last November.
Now living with elderly grandparents and a cousin who also lost a parent, Villanueva is one of dozens, possibly hundreds, of children orphaned by Typhoon Haiyan which killed or left missing some 7,000 people after ripping through the Philippines.
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