Davao City emergency responders prepare a command outpost for a city wide full scale earthquake drill held at the Crocodile Park on Friday, July 22. The activity is part of the National Disaster Consciousness Month. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The tattoos on Apo Oki Ligue's body, some of which have been there since she was nine years old, symbolize the stars, which the Tinananon Manobo believe will serve as their guiding light in afterlife.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Women wash clothes by the river in Sitio Kibasalan, Barangay Malibatuan in Arakan, Cotabato province. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A young student holds his bolo while watching the foreign delegates of the International Solidarity Mission help clear out the weeds in their vegetable garden at the Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Incorporated (MISFI) school in Kisante, Makilala, North Cotabato. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)