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The people we met in Sarangani province and General Santos City after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake told us: It’s hard enough to be poor, it’s even harder to live in tragedy
Pigado is the Bisaya word for “difficult” or “complicated.”
In Cebu, we use lisod or apeke to describe situations that are hard to manage or impossible to overcome.
When Rappler education reporter Jelo Mantaring and I visited Sarangani province and General Santos City, pigado was how the survivors of the June 8 magnitude 7.8 earthquake described their situation almost two weeks in the aftermath.
