Save the children
TODAY, classes in public schools resume – initially “blended” due to COVID-19 but eventually going face-to-face full blast.
The month of August is also within...
Job generation
THE PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority reported an 18.1% poverty incidence or 19.99 million Filipinos who consider themselves poor in 2021. It further bared a 7.8%...
Joblessness
ACCORDING to the Philippine Statistics Authority, nearly three million Filipinos in the labor force were unemployed in June 2022. The number of jobless Filipinos...
Make schools COVID-proof
CLASSES in public schools resume next week. One thing must be emphasized first and foremost – install COVID-19 preventive measures. The priority should be...
Ahead of the curve
ARE WE near to flattening the COVID-19 infection curve, or still far from it? Whatever, we must be ahead of the curve when it...
Law vs online sexual abuse
(Due to its timeliness, we yield this space to the statement of the Save the Children Philippines on the approval of the Anti-Online Sexual...
Proper and safe construction
SHORTLY after a recent magnitude 7 earthquake struck parts of northern Luzon, the Office of Civil Defense in Western Visayas ordered local disaster risk...
Maldistribution of healthcare workers
COVID-19 is still very much around. But here comes dengue. And the threat of monkeypox. If worse comes to worst, do we have enough...
Humble heroes
THE PRESENCE of health workers in the barangays is crucial to ensure that people in different parts of the country, including in remote, underserved...
War vs online abuse of kids
THE LAPSING into law of Republic Act 11930 – the Anti-Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children and Anti-Child Sexual Abuse or Exploitation Materials...