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The National Children's Reading Day is celebrated every third Tuesday of July in a mall in Ecoland, Davao City in commemoration of the publication of Dr. Jose Rizal's Ang Pagong at ang Matsing and to encourage children to read daily. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Bello Tindasan, chairman of Compostela Farmers Association (CFA), along with other farmers, protests in front of the Army's Eastern Mindanao Command Headquarters in Davao City a week before President Aquino's last State of the Nation Address (SONA) to condemn alleged human rights violations against peasants and activists. Tindasan's house in Compostela Valley was strafed by alleged by Army men last June. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Dr. Gracita Berguia, Department of Health XI says around 800,000 school children from Davao Region will be dewormed on the nationwide simultaneous deworming day on July 29. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)