The Interface Development Intervention Services (IDIS) collaborate with Davao Association of Catholic Schools (DACS) for the 2014 3rd Lunhaw Awards search for best environment practices among groups and institutions in Davao City. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Vendors steal a moment of sleep while waiting for customers along Uyanguren (R. Magsaysaya Avenue), where shoes and sandals are selling around 100 pesos a pair. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Southern Mindanao led a hundredpersons on a picket Monday at the Davao Light and Power Company office in Bajada as consumers were irate for paying higher rates in spite of four to six hours of rotational brownouts last April. Bayan said the Aboitiz-owned company has been conditioning the public to pay higher rates, as they blamed the government’s public-private partnership for enforcing the monopoly of elite power players. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Jimmie Loe dela Vega, director of Davao Association of Colleges and Schools, said tuition increases in Davao schools were set at a ceiling of seven per cent per unit. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Evelyn Cubelo (with mic) of the BAN Toxics group said they have introduced a mercury-free gold processing facility that will use instead gravity and borax for some 5,000 small scale-miners in Mt. Diwata, Monkayo, Compostela Valley province. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
A woman displays school patches and ribbons for school uniforms in time for enrollment for school starting this week. The vendor earns around 300 pesos a day. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Students of Salugpungan Learning School of Talaingod, Davao del Norte reenact their community’s experience of harassment from the military during a public forum last week on human rights and militarism at Brokenshire College Chapel. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness gathered at Rizal Park to take part in the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial held every May 16 by grassroots communities reportedly in over 115 countries. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Activists in Davao blamed the power outage on the government for favoring private power firms over efficient public service. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Summer finds children such as this girl doing fishing at the Bankerohan River.(Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
