The Department of Health (DOH), along with the City Government of Davao, have kick off the first round of its “Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio” campaign which will happened until Oct. 27.
Author Archives: KEN E. CAGULA
Hundreds of children aged five years old and below are given free polio vaccine at the Brgy 5-A gym, Bangkerohan, Davao City on Monday (Oct 14) as the Department of Health (DOH) kicks off the first round of its massive synchronized polio vaccination campaign following the polio outbreak in the Philippines. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
Lawyers of incarcerated overseas worker Mary Jane Veloso hoped that the ‘truth will come out’ following the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision allowing their client to testify against her recruiters, Ma. Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao, in a local trafficking case.
A meeting of farmers in Caraga region to supposedly discuss activities for the commemoration of Peasant Month was disrupted when 20 combined elements of the police and military arrested a 68-year old farmer-leader Thursday (Oct.10) at his office in Brgy. Tiniwisan, Butuan City.
Chieftains of Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanogon, together with Salugpongan school teachers and students, rip copies of the Notice of Resolution of the Department of Education to show their rejection on the permanent closure of Salugpongan schools during a protest action in Davao City. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
The Salugpongan School started as a literacy-numeracy school for the Talaingod Manobo children. Volunteer teachers were facilitated by the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP).
The country’s inflation rate further slowed down to 0.9 percent in the month of September, according to the latest report of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
The Save Our Schools (SOS) Network in Southern Mindanao on Tuesday, through its convenor Aisha dela Cruz slammed Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio over the allegations she made against the group and the Salugpongan schools in Mindanao.
The ongoing calls to reopen the lumad schools in Mindanao and Davao City got a boost as a member of the city council here openly declared her support to the said cause.
Davao City activists decry the continuous killings of Indigenous people in Mindanao at a protest action Saturday. The killings intensified after President Rodrigo Duterte placed Mindanao under Martial Law in 2017 and extended it until the end of 2019. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
