FREE WATER
FREE WATER. Residents who lost their houses to the fire at Quezon Boulevard last April 4 avail of free water at their community at Barangay 23-C to bathe and wash clothes. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
FREE WATER. Residents who lost their houses to the fire at Quezon Boulevard last April 4 avail of free water at their community at Barangay 23-C to bathe and wash clothes. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Talaingod Manobo children at the UCCP compound in Davao fly kites with calls to stop military operations in their villages written on the kites. The activity was dubbed as "Tabanog sa Kalinaw" and organized by groups supporting the 1,300 Manobos who fled from their militarized villages in Davao del Norte.
FACE OFF. Talaingod Manobo leader Datu Doluman Dausay (left) faced Zandro Tocmo (in white shirt), administrator of Talaingod local government at a dialogue in the evacuation site in UCCP Haran to demand the LGU to call for the pull out of military units from their community. (Daisy Jane M. Apit/davaotoday.com)
ABORTED CLASSES. Teody Mansimuy-at, a Manobo literacy-numeracy teacher in Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte said they were forced to cancel plans of summer school because of alleged threats and abuses of Army troops present in their communities. Mansimuy-at is one of the 1300 plus Talaingod Manobos, mostly women and children, now in Davao City who fled Talaingod for the safety of Davao City.
The Childrens Rehabilitation Center Southern Mindanao conducted psychosocial release activities with more than 500 children yesterday. Activities like storytelling help children spend productive time.