The Berlin Model United Nations (BERMUN) Conference, a bi-annual gathering of senior high school students from 28 countries and 63 participating schools demonstrated its solidarity with the Filipino people  and expressed its unequivocal support for the typhoon Haiyan victims. The Conference held from 20 to 23 November  was hosted by the JFK School in Berlin in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung , a non-profit German political institution dedicated in  promoting discussion and search ... Read more

STATEMENT OF H.E. MARIA CLEOFE NATIVIDAD Philippine Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany 20 November 2013 On November 8, Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines as a category 5 storm, possibly the most powerful storm ever recorded. Across 36 provinces, over thirteen million people were affected, four million displaced, and over four thousand deaths estimated in the wake of the typhoon. The numbers fall short in conveying the scene, thick with desperation, of the countless survivors ... Read more