Cultural artists depicting the Katipunan in a Davao City rally commemorating Andres Bonifacio’s 150th birthday. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Children who were traumatized by military operations in their farm communities in Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur attend an art workshop at Davao City People’ Park last Sunday as part of psycho-social intervention program by the Kabiba Alliance for Children’s Concern and Children’s Rehabilitation Center. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Together with the birthday of Katipunan leader Andres Bonifacio, the activist youth group Anak Bayan celebrates its founding anniversary on November 30. Founded in 1998, the group stages a rally at the statue of Bonifacio along Magallanes Street, slamming corruption of public funds. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
A craftsman works on a Christmas lantern (parol) using bamboo material which he displays along Quimpo Boulevard. With the Christmas season starting, traditional lanterns are sought after, with prices ranging from thirty to five hundred pesos. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte leads the oath taking ceremony Friday of the new barangay officials from the city’s 182 barangays, held at Almendras Gym. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A barangay official from Tacloban, Leyte, Jessica Seno Panis (left) cries as she thanks Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (right) for including her during Friday’s oath taking ceremony of new barangay officials at Almendras Gym. Panis is temporarily residing with relatives in Davao after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged her city and other parts of Eastern Visayas, but said she will return soon to serve her constituents in Barangay 73 PHHC. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Student leaders of Assumption College of Davao express their stand on issues through visuals in their recent campus leader’s Congress held last week. Local artists engaged the youth in visuals, theater, music and leadership skills. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
As the Christmas season starts, city government staff were seen in the past weeks putting up Christmas decors at the trees fronting the City Hall which lights up the night. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Without electricity and relief in Leyte including this town of Tolosa, a resident still posts a broken television set and sign to show his wish to to watch boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao’s fight against Brando Rios last Sunday. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Different poses of Typhoon Yolanda survivors as they await their turn in a relief mission in a town in Leyte. (photo courtesy of Balsa Mindanao)