Click Here For Original Post The US is helping the Philippines to modernise and improve its military capability in the face of a growing confrontation with China over supremacy in the South China Sea. The Americans […]
In the slum area of Ulingan, near Manila, hundreds of families earn their living from the charcoal industry. The air is thick with smoke as children and adults of all ages get […]
Click Here For Original Post At the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial hospital 300 proud mothers lie three to a bed, cradling their newborns. With up to 100 babies born every 24 hours […]
Click Here For Original Post The Liter of Light project was launched six months ago by the My Shelter Foundation, a Philippines-based NGO which aims to provide light to 1 million of the roughly […]
Click Here For Original Post It’s been three days since one of the worst storms ever to hit the Philippines‘ southern island of Mindanao left unprecedented death and destruction in its wake. Rescue […]
Click Here For Original Post Devastating flash floods have drowned hundreds of people in their beds in two southern Philippine cities. Twelve hours of heavy rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers […]
Click Here For Original Post Distance learning, free school meals and child-centered learning techniques in the Philippines are pushing the country closer to the goal of universal primary education. The Philippines has 90 million people living on […]
Click Here For Original Post Rabies, a disease considered all but eliminated in humans in the developing world, still causes significant deaths in poorer countries. According to the World Health Organization, at least 150 people […]
To mark the launch of the UN agency’s flagship report, we hear from three women about legal rights in their countries, and from the under-secretary general of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet Click […]
Click Here For Original Post When Anne was given a chance to work abroad as a waitress, it was an offer she could not refuse. Life in her impoverished village of Tarlac, […]
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