A member of Kika-GAWA poses at the association’s backyard garden in Barangay Anuron, Mercedes, Eastern Samar. Kika women are using ecological farming practices to provide basic food for the communities and in times of disasters like typhoon Haiyan.
Kika-GAWA (Gios Anuron Women's Association) is a women's organization that has a common interest in building back their “Barangay” (village). Their goal is to make Barangay Anuron a better place to live in, after it was devastated by super typhoon Haiyan in 2013.