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Aftermath Photos of Cebu in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda

A child scoops water out of the flooded sports complex in Medellin, Bogo in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda.
Staff from the local government packs relief goods at the municipality of Medellin, Bogo after Typhoon Yolanda.
Sports complex in Medellin, Bogo flooded by Typhoon Yolanda.
Residents line up for kerosene supply in Bogo, Cebu after Typhoon Yolanda passed through northern Cebu.
Charging cellphones at a charging station run by a generator as power is still mostly out in northern Cebu after it was hit hard by Tyhpoon Yolanda.
The newly-built city hall of Bogo, Cebu all in shambles after it was hit hard by Typhoon Yolanda.
Relief goods being prepared in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda inside the damaged sports complex in Bogo, Cebu.
A child stands among the rubble in what used to be his house in San Remigio, Cebu after Typhoon Yolanda passed through.
One of the many churches ruined by Typhoon Yolanda in northern Cebu.
A young man starting to clear debris from a classroom at a Daanbantayan elementary school.
The remains of a house in Daanbantayan, Cebu after Typhoon Yolanda passed through.
A coastal community in Daanbantayan, Cebu in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda.
Two men start to rebuild their home in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda, Cebu.
A fallen roof of a gasoline station in Daanbantayan, Cebu brought on by Typhoon Yolanda.
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Photos by Jason Maentz

Cebu province in the Eastern Visayas lay in the direct path of the super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) that struck the Philippines Friday. Like its heavily-affected neighboring provinces, the Visayan province bore the extreme wrath of one of the most devastating storms to hit the country in recent times with total damages reported to be P4 billion. Six days after the super typhoon, Cebu City has just begun to restore the power outages, severed communication lines and disruptions to its water and food supply.

Cebu-based American photographer, Jacob Maentz, captures the extreme difficulties residents face with in the aftermath of super Typhoon Yolanda. His harrowing images portray the enormously difficult task Cebu has at hand just as the province prepares shelter evacuation centers for the influx of evacuees from surrounding areas, such as those from ruined city Tacloban, Leyte.

Sources: Gulfnews, Rappler, Sunstar