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Defiant Philippine Typhoon Survivors Welcome Christmas, Prepare Survivor Philippines is one of the strongest ever to hit the Earth on Tuesday contest to celebrate Christmas in the ruins of their communities typhoons . The pigs were roasted , Christmas trees decorated streets filled last minute shoppers the center and heavily damaged churches crowded with worshipers on the eve of the most joyous holidays of the country. "Nothing can greet us of Christmas to stop, even if we lost our home," Ellen Miano Metzger said to his wife of 63 years told AFP from a small hut in the middle of the debris field Tacloban City. Fierce Haiyan 315 km (195 miles) per hour winds smooth the sand area on the coast of Tacloban called Magallanes , then scanned everything with huge waves on a day of terror, 8 November . Tacloban and neighboring districts accounted for more than 5,000 of the more than 6,000 deaths confirmed , with about 2,000 others missing, making it the deadliest storm in the country and one of the worst natural disasters. Miano , who lives with her husband and four young nieces and nephews in the 2 x 3 m (6 x 10 m) ,
used wood hut and advice sheet , said the family was eating the traditional Christmas dinner at midnight with fried noodles and the bread, which by a charity is given . Its 20 -year-old neighbor Ronfrey Magdua built a huge lantern 4 meters from reclaimed wood Hochsternförmigenund the Philippine flag in red, white and blue wrapped , and in the garden of a family placed him who . During the disaster killed " I did this in honor of the dead ," the young unemployed to AFP and said he spent about 2,000 pesos ( $ 45) from their own savings into the project. "I have a lot of my neighbors happy. Several of them told me that some of your stress relieved ," Magdua , of a dozen distant storm tide lost parents . Some survivors have small amounts of money by the United Nations, the Government of the Philippines and other humanitarian organizations that developed in a program to obtain participating nations to increase the economy of the devastated communities. World Food Programme of the United Nations has distributed to spend 1300 pesos to 18,000 of the poorest families in Tacloban and surrounding areas with the approach of Christmas on rebuilding their speakers for the time of life love Almagro . The agency provides $ 6 million to 100,000 families in the next few weeks , other funding organizations such as the system of government where the people have lost their jobs paid the minimum daily wage to clear debris from streets , Almagro AFP. The storm made ​​4.4 million people homeless and damages $ 12.9 billion , according to the government that will take it , the central region is believed to recover affected an area the size of Portugal , four years. But damaged in Tacloban and surrounding villages churches have their doors in the last of the pre-dawn masses in 10 days until Christmas Eve during the holiday season in the country to open early Tuesday . " There is always something beautiful to after what will come to us ," Bernardo Pantin , the pastor of the town next to Tacloban Palo , the parishioners in a sermon . About 100 people attended Mass in a church makeshift wooden coconut and blue tarp , after the former was completely destroyed by the wind. "He ( Typhoon ) has changed our lives , but we know that good things will follow. But of course it will take some time," he told AFP Pantin . In the San Joaquin Palo six community Clifford Cobacha and Uncle Rico Cobacha , 27, attended Mass before sunrise and later burn to the cemetery in front of a group of three small candles wooden cross marks the grave of his mother and two brothers . More than 300 jobs are to be buried in the cemetery the graves with small wooden cross marks " It will be difficult to celebrate Christmas after we lost 15 relatives ," the former Cobacha told AFP . Eight of them were lying in mass graves , with seven others, including the father of the missing child.