This contributed photo from Tacloban City shows people carting off goods from Robinson’s Mall last Monday in plain sight of an armed security guard who could only watch . Chaos and hunger has stricken this city struck by Typhoon Yolanda last Friday, as no clear system has been implemented to carry off the dead and take care of the many survivors. (Photo contributed by Arthur Yap)
Davawenyos light candles at Freedom Park during Wednesday’s International Day of Solidarity for Yolanda Victims. Nearly a week after the devastation, the nation has now criticized the government’s slow response to the humanitarian crisis in Leyte and Samar. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Church people and progressive groups converged at Freedom Park on Wednesday night as they offer prayers for Typhoon Yolanda victims. The groups also gathered cash and other donations which they will bring to Leyte next week through the Lihok Katawhan coalition. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A resident of SIR gets a helping hand from AnakBayan leader Mariel Moralde in carrying a basketfull of used clothes she is donating for Yolanda survivors in Leyte and Samar. Youth activists went around communities Wednesday during the International Day of Solidarity for Yolanda Victims. (davaotoday.com photo by Earl O. Condeza)
A sari-sari store owner contributes her share for a relief drive for Yolanda victims staged by youth activists who went around urban poor communities asking for donations. (davaotoday.com photo by Earl O. Condeza)
A vendor at the city’s Bankerohan Public Market drops his donation to an activist going around for contributions to help victims of super typhoon Yolanda that leveled cities in Eastern Visayas. Donations and aid from local to international groups have been pouring in but delivering these to the victims has been a problem. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
The two teenage lumad minors detained last July 22 in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, are finally free to go as the murder complaint against them by the military were dismissed by the provincial state prosecutor. The minors, Alan, aged 16; and John, 17 (both not real names) were flagged down by soldiers and paramilitary in their village and were reportedly tortured the night before they were detained. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)
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)
