{"id":5065,"date":"2015-11-15T06:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:46:21","slug":"this-young-filipino-worked-in-a-war-zone-and-lived-to-tell-his-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/id\/this-young-filipino-worked-in-a-war-zone-and-lived-to-tell-his-tale","title":{"rendered":"This Young Filipino Worked in a War Zone and Lived To Tell His Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing in Giano Libot\u2019s comfortable upbringing foretold his lifelong involvement in the humanitarian sector. But today, he joins the\u00a0millions of people who work in this industry globally<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cI didn\u2019t really know that this was what I\u2019d end up doing,\u201d told Gian as he reminisced about how he started his career with\u00a0International Organization for Migration<\/a><\/strong> (IOM). \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I planned on [becoming an aid worker] but it became an acquired interest and passion later on,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0It was in 2013, right after the devastating\u00a07.2 magnitude earthquake<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that hit Bohol and Cebu, that Gian decided to join the emergency response team that was assigned there. Despite having very little knowledge on humanitarian work, he still pushed himself to join and serve where help was needed. \u201cI had no knowledge about the job because prior to that I was just a\u00a0freelance journalist<\/a><\/strong>. My job was only write, I didn\u2019t know how to do procurement, procedures, logistics or even administrative stuff. I had to learn the ropes.\u201d And little did he\u00a0know that by learning all ropes, an opportunity would turn up that would eventually change the course of his life.<\/p>\n

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