Lumad school volunteer teacher Leah Mae Serra gets emotional in a press conference on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at the UCCP Haran evacuation center in Davao City. Thinking about the hardship of Lumad children, Serra slammed the DepEd for suspending the operations of Salugpongan schools “on baseless accusations.” (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
Members of the Manobo-Pulangihon tribe from Quezon, Bukidnon, ready to go back home after their arrival at the Cagayan de Oro port Monday night. The group escaped from their employer in Pangasinan whom they accused of maltreating them. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Boys cling to a rope as they climb the boat that ferries passengers from Balingoan, Misamis Oriental to Benoni, Camiguin and vice versa. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Tourism Officer Generose Tecson shows the IDs issued by the Department of Tourism for accredited tour guides. At the I-speak press conference on Thursday, July 4, 2019, Tecson urged the public to avail tour services only of individuals and groups accredited by the City Government. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
Students, faculty, and graduates of the University of the Philippines Mindanao stage a rally during the commencement exercises on Friday, June 21, challenging President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration to heed the people’s calls such as genuine agrarian reform, end martial law in Mindanao and to defend the national sovereignty. (Photo contributed by Jarius Perez)
Presidential son and political neophyte Sebastian “Baste” Duterte takes his oath as the elected vice mayor of Davao City on Friday, June 21 at the city’s Sangguniang Panlungsod. The ceremony was witnessed by the first family including President Rodrigo Duterte. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
To sustain the daily needs of his family, this vendor has to brave the sweltering heat of the sun in the streets of Baler in Aurora province, as he sells to tourists and visitors local delicacy called “Pakumbo,” a sweetened dried coconut packed in a dry banana bark. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
Among those who went early to vote is this 69-year-old resident of Matina, Davao City who immediately scanned the list of voters posted near her polling precint at the Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School on Monday, May 13, 2019. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
EXCEPTIONAL ONE. A local barber in Davao City offers free haircut service to all unfortunate individuals along C.M Recto Street every weekend. He usually gives free service to up to 20 individuals as his gift-giving effort and advocacy.
A Manobo woman wails on the last night of Datu Kaylo Bontulan’s wake at the evacuation center inside the UCCP Haran Compound on Monday. Bontulan was among the leaders of the Lumad communities from Talaingod, Davao del Norte who fled their homes since 2015 due to militarization. He died on April 7 during a military operation in Kitaotao, Bukidnon. (Mara S. Genotiva/davaotoday.com)
