Joan Baking lives with her family in a cemetery in the Philippine capital Manila. Temperatures of more than 30 degrees already prevail there in March. The only way to cool down in the small house is a fan on the ceiling. Joan is pregnant and her body is suffering from heat stress, for which she is taking medication. Confronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and FloodsConfronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and Floods Image: tvf international As a result, her son is born with a severe form of asthma. A disease that worsens in the heat. The family cannot afford hospital treatment. Confronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and FloodsConfronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and Floods Image: tvf international In the Indian state of Uttarakhand, people have always lived with the monsoon rains. In August 2022, however, the rainfall was so heavy that a tidal wave swept through the Doon Valley, tearing away everything near the banks. Confronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and FloodsConfronting Climate Change - How Families Are Grappling with Heat and Floods Image: tvf international The village of Maldevta was completely buried under rubble and mud. 18-year-old Shivani lost her father. Now she and her siblings have to build a new house - further away from the river -- without the support of their father. They cannot estimate how heavy the next monsoon rains will be. But they have been living in constant fear of new floods ever since the last disaster.