Students from the University of the Philippines Mindanao campus light candles on Friday to condemn the continuing harassment and killing of Lumads in Mindanao. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Claro Gawilan, chairman of the Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma sa White Culaman (United Farmers of White Culaman) from Kitaotao town in Bukidnon speaks during their protest rally in San Pedro Street, Davao City on Thursday. The protesters accused the Army as responsible for the continuing harassment and killings of Lumads in Mindanao. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
With the emergence of gadgets and computer games among kids, these students of Magallanes Elementary school find time to play takyan (hacky sack), a local game in the country during their break. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
On Wednesday, the officers of the Supreme Pupil Government of Teodoro Palma Gil Elementary School here along with the SPG Federation of the Davao Central District conducted a tree planting activity dubbed “Treevolution of the Young” where they planted 2,000 seedlings of trees endemic to the Philippines.
President Benigno Aquino III during his speech at the Department of Tourism and Department of Public Works and Highways convergence program for the Island Garden City of Samal circumferential road which will be completed in January 2016. The program was held at the Holiday Ocean View in Barangay Camudmud, Igacos. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Activist groups with Lumad leaders splash red paint unto themselves to show anger on the “continuing unresolved extrajudicial killings” in Mindanao during the visit of President Benigno Aquino III in Davao City on Wednesday. The groups said extrajudicial killings in the region are part of the state’s anti-insurgency campaign – Oplan Bayanihan. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
A group of activists gets close to an Army truck full of soldiers while shouting “berdugo (butchers)” after a visit of President Benigno Aquino III in Davao City. The group held a protest several meters away from a school where Aquino visited to demand justice for the killings of Lumads in Mindanao. (John Rizle L. Saligumba/davaotoday.com)
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III is joined by Davao del Norte governor Rodolfo Del Rosario, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson and Department of Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez,Jr, in their arrival at the Island Garden City of Samal. Here the President and his cabinet crossed a part of the 96-km circumferential road in Igacos, which is set to be completed by January 2016. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Jirojunn Juri Lopoz, Supreme Pupil Government Federation President of Davao Central District, reads his message on stage before the tree planting activity in Barangay Tigatto, Buhangin, Davao City, on Wednesday morning. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Isidro V. Albano, Mindanao Alliance of Dairy Industry Stakeholders Association (Madis) said during the press conference on Wednesday that only five percent of the whole demand for milk industry is addressed by local producers. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
