Wednesday, May 14, 2014

But not exactly poor: 2 million live in slums

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POVERTY in slum settlements cannot be simply overcome through traditional poverty reduction programs such as cash transfers. The Philip...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Government evicts 4,400 families from waterways

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THE Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has evicted some 4,400 families (22,000 persons) from major waterways in Metro Mani...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Slum dwellers face forced eviction; Road widening project to leave 1,600 homeless

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Slum dwellers in five villages of Tondo district in Manila were evicted last Tuesday (April 22) to make way for a road-widening project b...

Badjao a tribe losing home at sea; Road where tribal folk pitched tents cleared

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Presiana Abdusalam longs to go back to her village of Mariki in Zamboanga City. “I want to sleep to the sound of the sea,” the Badjao moth...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Catholic group feeds Manila's homeless

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A Catholic lay group in Tondo, Manila is providing free rice porridge and bread to homeless and beggars every Friday. Emil Mendoza, one ...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Fire leaves 5,000 homeless

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A huge night fire sent slum dwellers running for their lives and destroyed more than a thousand homes in Davao City. The city’s skyline...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Cardinal Tagle laments poverty amid progress

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MANILA Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has expressed alarm over the rising unemployment and worsening poverty in the country despi...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Urban poor follow in Holy Family’s footsteps

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Carrying banners, Christmas lanterns and giant puppets, some 3,000 slum dwellers marched in the streets of Manila to reenact the travails of...