Typhoon Haiyan: Tour a street devastated by the storm

Nimfa, 48, a self-employed trader, is living in the ruins of her house and surviving on scarce aid supplies with her husband Edgar Sabido. Click on the gallery below to see inside her home and learn how she survived the storm.

Diana, 37, a self-employed seamstress, took refuge upstairs at her home when the storm struck. She is now considering moving to a safer place.

Josefina, 65, a retired municipal health officer, feels saddened by what has happened to her community, but she is determined to live the rest of her life in her family home.

Erwin, 52, a security officer at Tacloban's City Hall Hospital, was swept away by the waves created by the typhoon. He is still looking for some members of his family.

Laarni, 29, a self-employed food trader, thought her husband had been killed when he left the evacuation centre to look for her elderly father. However, they were reunited later and are living with 19 other people in a damaged house near their old home.

Remedios, 50, a civilian worker at Tacloban Central Fire Station, has been surviving on what little food she stored at home before the typhoon struck. She and her sister feared for their lives as the water flooded into her home.

Liani, 49, an aquarium business secretary, and her family fled to the roof of their house on the day the typhoon struck. Her youngest son Wilfred (bottom right) rescued her parents and many others from the floodwaters.