Youth & Children

Duterte slams “God’s antiquated policy” on population

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today

Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte defended the revised Local Development Plan for Children (LDPC) against objections raised by the Catholic Church to the city's reproductive health and safe pregnancy program. "God's policy is antiquated and it cannot help the people who are reeling from poverty," Duterte said during his weekly television program ?Gikan sa Masa para sa Masa.?

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A hard day’s work for Mac Unday

Mac Unday,13, pounds on a steel bar, protruding out of a cement post he finds in an abandoned lot on E. Jacinto Extension. If he succeeds in taking it out, the steel bar will sell at P11 per kilo in a junk shop. Mac has seven siblings. His mother, a laundrywoman, and his father, a housepainter, hardly earn anything in a day. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)


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Bombing in Baganga distressed children, violated their rights: group

?There are clear manifestations of uneasiness and tension in the children while they were sharing their experiences, particularly during the bombing.? This summed up the report of John Birondo, advocacy…

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