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Mayor Sara on death of 3-year-old boy: we’re late
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said she is both heartbroken and furious over the death of a 3-year-old boy allegedly beaten by his stepfather in Matina Pangi, on Wednesday, August 24.
Mothers from different barangays in Davao City attend the nutrition fair organized by the National Nutrition Council Region 11 to avail free health services. The nutrition fair held at the SM Ecoland on
Mothers hope for more accessible health care
Almost a hundred mothers and young children attended the nutrition fair organized by the National Nutrition Council in a mall here on Wednesday, July 27 in the bid of mothers to get free vaccination for their infants.
UNFAIR. Datu Gunding, leader of a community of Manobos in Sitio Katindo, Brgy. Malibatuan in Arakan, North Cotabato, laments the unfair trade practices that beset Lumad farmers. He said that after four months worth of labor in the fields, even a bountiful harvest of corn only yields him roughly P1,000 after the additional costs of shelling and trucking. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
?After Kidapawan ‘massacre’, farmers in Arakan still lack gov?’t support
While they are waiting for the harvest season, Datu Gunding said they hope they get aid from the government.
In this file photo, an old woman and a young girl beg for alms on the stairs of the San Pedro Cathedral. The National Economic and Development Authority launched recently its anti-hunger and anti-poverty program dubbed “Ambisyon Natin 2040.”(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Hunger still stalks Mindanao, accelerates to 19%
As hunger rate falls in Metro Manila and Visayas, thousands of Mindanaons suffer hunger as the hunger rate rose from 13 percent to 19 percent in the island.
DOLE identifies only ?398 child laborers in Davao Region
Under DOLE's child labor prevention and elimination program, it has extended livelihood assistance worth P1.7 million in 2015 for 398 parents of identified child laborers.