2 mln children in Philippines suffer from food poverty: UNICEF
MANILA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 2 million children in the Philippines are suffering from severe food poverty, being unable to get enough healthy food, according to a new UNICEF report released on Thursday. The global report Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood said that around 181 million children worldwide under five years of age, or one in four, are experiencing severe child foo.....»»
2 mln children in Philippines suffer from food poverty: UNICEF
MANILA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 2 million children in the Philippines are suffering from severe food poverty, being unable to get enough healthy food, according to a new UNICEF report released on Thursday. The global report Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood said that around 181 million children worldwide under five years of age, or one in four, are experiencing severe child foo.....»»
Drug war-related killings of children continue, refuting Marcos Jr’s claims
In the first six months of the Marcos Jr administration, the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center documented 12 children killed. In 2023, 20 children died in Caloocan and Manila alone. The post Drug war-related killings of children continue, refuting Marcos Jr’s claims appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
TURNING POINT: Too Poor Against Poverty
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 06 March) – Poverty is unquestionably the key driver of human trafficking. Crime syndicates, including religious groups, use the poor to advance their interest. Traffickers exploit women and children from rural communities, conflict- and disaster-affected areas, and impoverished urban centers in sex trafficking, forced domestic work, forced begging, and other […].....»»
A week after military bombing, Aurora residents suffer from trauma
In the situation report of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), a total of 3,633 families or 12,814 persons were affected in 14 barangays in Dipaculao and Maria Aurora, Aurora. The post A week after military bombing, Aurora residents suffer from trauma appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
El Niño in CV: 4K farmers suffer P120M in damages
El Niño in CV: 4K farmers suffer P120M in damages.....»»
Over one-third of children s food in Philippines are sugary: study
MANILA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of overweight children in the Philippines has tripled since 2003 due to sugary children's foods, according to a study by UNICEF and the Consortium for Improving Complementary Foods in Southeast Asia released on Thursday. The study finds that over one-third of commercially produced packaged foods for children aged six months to three years in the Philippines contain added sug.....»»
DSWD-Davao raises child feeding budget to P21
The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Davao Region (DSWD-Davao) has increased its budget for the Supplementary Feeding Program to P21 per child, up from the previous P15 allocation. Kyla Denise T. Pamat, a nutritionist dietician at DSWD-Davao, shared in a radio interview on Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR) on January 26, 2024, that the enhancement is a result of a budget insertion in 2023. The 13th cycle targets 122,400 children in Davao Region, with five local government units (LGUs) already initiating the feeding program, while others are in the procurement process. The program focuses on children aged two to four in child development centers and supervised neighborhood places, providing hot meals (rice and viand) for 80 days and alternative meals (pancake, nutribun, and fruit salad) for 40 days during the 120 feeding days. Additionally, selected LGUs with a prevalent number of underweight children receive milk feeding for the entire duration. The 12th cycle showed an 82.27 percent improvement in the weight of underweight children, reducing their number from 4,567 to 784 after the 120 feeding days. Pamat highlighted its alignment with Republic Act 11037, also known as the Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino Act, and encouraged LGUs, communities, and parents to support the program for continuous improvement......»»
Filipinos are Good at Being 'Resilient': Lifting the Philippines out of Poverty with Sam Tamayo s non-profit Project SMILE
Sabrina (Sam) Tamayo founded her non-profit, Project SMILE, in the Philippines in 2018. Her organization helps people of various ages and professions rise out of poverty and follows an inspiring mantra of starting small and building a reliable impact. In this interview she discusses human rights, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and various aspects of life in the Philippines......»»
Filipinos are Good at Being 'Resilient': Lifting the Philippines out of Poverty with Sam Tamayo s non-profit Project SMILE
Sabrina (Sam) Tamayo founded her non-profit, Project SMILE, in the Philippines in 2018. Her organization helps people of various ages and professions rise out of poverty and follows an inspiring mantra of starting small and building a reliable impact. In this interview she discusses human rights, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and various aspects of life in the Philippines......»»
Rights groups call for a safer environment for children
By DOMINIC GUTOMAN Bulatlat.com MANILA – Half a million Filipino children were trafficked for the production of new child sexual exploitation material in 2022, according to rights groups. Over the past 15 years, online child sexual abuse material surged by 15,000 percent, according to non-profit organization Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children. Women’s group Gabriela attributed… The post Rights groups call for a safer environment for children appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
World Bank advises on poverty reduction in Muslim region of Philippines
MANILA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Maintaining peace, supported by increasing farm profitability, diversifying income sources, enhancing access to basic social services, and upgrading infrastructure, will accelerate poverty reduction in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, the World Bank said in a recent report. Following decades of sluggish economic growth, the Philip.....»»
World Bank advises on poverty reduction in Muslim region of Philippines
MANILA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Maintaining peace, supported by increasing farm profitability, diversifying income sources, enhancing access to basic social services, and upgrading infrastructure, will accelerate poverty reduction in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, the World Bank said in a recent report. Following decades of sluggish economic growth, the Philip.....»»
Out of touch
In his imaginings, the Marcos administration’s anti-poverty czar sees poverty in the Philippines as just a figment of the people’s imagination......»»
DBM OKs 4,265 contractual DSWD positions to ease poverty
The Department of Budget and Management has approved over 4,000 contractual positions to support the government’s poverty reduction drive......»»
Progressive groups: Resolve hunger, poverty
SEVERAL progressive groups staged a Labor Day protest at Freedom Park, Roxas Avenue, on Wednesday morning, May 1, 2024, demanding higher wages to resolve hunger and mass poverty in the Davao Region......»»
Self-rated poverty dips, but hunger increases – poll
Although self-rated poverty slightly went down in the fourth quarter of 2023, a recent survey conducted by OCTA Research showed more Filipinos experiencing hunger......»»
Chacha to worsen land dispossession and poverty, rights groups say
“Instead of devoting our land and resources to the genuine development of the domestic agriculture, economy, and industries, ChaCha will allow more foreign-owned extractive industries, logging, ecotourism, real estate projects, expansion of agro-corporation plantations, and other business operations intended for profit-making." The post Chacha to worsen land dispossession and poverty, rights groups say appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
Lab-grown proteins, edible containers, and other food innovations we’ll eat in 2024
San Miguel Foods Culinary Center recently presented “Food Forward: A Taste of 2024 Food Trends” hosted by Paolo Abrera and chef Llena Tan-Arcenas, who saw these trends at the 2023 Thailand Food Expo, as well as from SMFCC’s research and observations......»»
Gaza: Starving children should be ‘an alarm like no other’, says UN
The United Nations on Tuesday called on the international community to “flood” Gaza with aid amid reports that children are dying of starvation in the war-torn territory. “With children starting … to die from starvation, that should be an alarm like no other,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva......»»
Philippines: More than one million children in Muslim Mindanao need protection from highly infectious measles spread
COTABATO/MANILA, 28 March 2024 - A major immunization drive in early April will reach over 1.3 million children in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the alarming surge in measles cases with 77 per cent of the confirmed cases in the Philippines being reported from this region.From the 1st until 12th April, health workers will provide lifesaving vaccines to prot.....»»