Little Swiss shop helps Lumads in Mindanao

Pencils and notebooks made in Germany and Switzerland, durable umbrellas, raincoats as big as blankets because European sizes are almost twice as big as average Filipino sizes, used toys curiously making their way to the Lumad communities in Mindanao.

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A hard day’s work for Mac Unday

Mac Unday,13, pounds on a steel bar, protruding out of a cement post he finds in an abandoned lot on E. Jacinto Extension. If he succeeds in taking it out, the steel bar will sell at P11 per kilo in a junk shop. Mac has seven siblings. His mother, a laundrywoman, and his father, a housepainter, hardly earn anything in a day. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)


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Will Shelter Code solve Davao’s homelessness?

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

Finally signed by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on November 15 this year, the Shelter Code is supposed to address the growing homelessness in the city. Non-government organizations consider the new ordinance a triumph. But what does this new law promise a city, where an estimated half a million people are homeless?

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Suicide of 12-year-old girl moves pastor to paint, child worker to compose verses

"My Diary" by Pastor Jurie Jaime. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

The suicide of the 12-year-old girl has moved a pastor to paint; a child?s advocacy group volunteer to write verses, and government and civil society group to press the government for more attention to children?s rights. The night after he heard about the girl?s death from the television news, Pastor Jurie Jaime, of the United Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) in Tibungco, stayed up in his parsonage throughout the wee hours in the morning, crying and angrily splashing paint on his canvass.

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