Author: KATH M. CORTEZ

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Read more about the article Angry Marawi women,youth barge through public hearing
Women and the youth conduct a prayer protest before they marched the streets of Marawi and attend the public hearing in Provincial Capitol Gym.(Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Angry Marawi women,youth barge through public hearing

Nearly two years of never-ending struggle to go back to where their houses once stood, the women and the youth held another show of anger and dismay over the failure of the government to improve the ground zero here, the scene of the heaviest battles of the armed forces and Maute group in 2017.

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Read more about the article Amidst adversities, children hold on to their dreams inside Haran
LUMAD STUDENT. A Lumad student studies her lesson inside a makeshift tent in UCCP Haran evacuation center on Thursday, January 18. ?More than? 70 students are ?still holding their classes in the evacuation center since they fled home in 2015 ?to avoid alleged harassment from ?soldiers. (Photo courtesy of Kath Cortez)

Amidst adversities, children hold on to their dreams inside Haran

Living inside a noisy, hot, and difficult shelter for years is how an 11-year-old Manobo girl describes her temporary yet almost permanent shelter inside the evacuation center of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines - Haran (UCCP-Haran).

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