School children, particularly the boys were lining up a barber shop, arranged from the shortest to the tallest, each waiting for their turn for a haircut.
Private First Class Khen Subere denied he has gone Awol (absent without official leave) from the military during his capture by the New People’s Army a month ago.
Jepoy, 16, has been working for a sugarcane plantation in Bukidnon since he was 12 years old. At a young age, he decided to work to help his family for their survival.
A farmer who was accused of being a New People’s Army member was allegedly beaten to death by the military on May 4 at Barangay Kalapaton, Kitaotao, Bukidnon.
The World Day against Child Labor was launched Wednesday at a mall here with the theme, “No to Child Labor, Yes to Quality Education”.
Jhonward, 16, and Mae, 22, are both new graduates who work at a burger joint here.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will commemorate World Day on June 10 focusing on its advocacy against child labor.
“We have been waiting all our lives for the government to build a school in our communities, but why now that we are able to build schools with our own perseverance, they want to close it?”, said Datu Kailo Bantulan in a press conference Monday.
The recent moves to close several schools of an indigenous people’s organization in Davao del Norte serve the insurgency campaign of the Army, said school administrators.
Members of an indigenous people’s group here said they reclaimed their homes early this month, more than a year after they were forced to leave by members of a religious sect.
