HARVEST OF GOLD
Farmers in Pigcawayan town in the province of North Cotabato enjoy their rice harvest after almost two years of drought which limited their harvest yields. (davaotoday.com photo by Kennette Jean Millondaga)
Farmers in Pigcawayan town in the province of North Cotabato enjoy their rice harvest after almost two years of drought which limited their harvest yields. (davaotoday.com photo by Kennette Jean Millondaga)
These five kids are awardees from the Davao region's four provinces and Davao City for the Department of Social Welfare and Development's Pantawid Exemplary Child 2013. The DSWD program gives monthly cash grants of P 1,400 to school children's family as long as they perform well at school. A total of 192,881 households in Davao Region are beneficiaries. But a report from think-tank IBON Foundation questioned its effectivity in alleviating poverty, as they cited government audit that some P 4 billion of the program remained unliquidated and P 50 million were misspent on non-beneficiaries. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
All hands from workers of a telephone company contractor pull up a heavy cable to stretch across electric posts in Buhangin. (davaotoday.com photo by Kenneth Jean Millondaga)
Yasushi Okamoto (center), president and general manager of Honda Philippines Inc., and Kaiser Yamashita (second, right), assistant vice president for sales and marketing, unveils new models of the XRM 125 series designed for on and off-roads suitable for Mindanao terrains. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
A hole in a building in Lustre Street peers through a mosque. Many of these buildings were left in tatters during the Zamboanga standoff last September. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)