Tag: Poverty
Children suffer the most as pandemic pushes millions of Indians into...
Millions of children live in a precarious situation, many of them will never enter the gates of a school again
SPOTLIGHT: When the dragons and lions stopped dancing
The colorful festivities in Manila’s Chinatown, the oldest in the world, was gone. The dragon and lion dancers were nowhere to be seen.
Filipino farmers hope against hope amid desperate times
Being a farmer in the Philippines is becoming more difficult as the country faces the threats of the pandemic, climate change, and hunger
Fish farming helps villagers avoid dire poverty during India’s lockdown
Poverty is a disease crueler than COVID-19, villager says
Listen to the cry of the ‘unknown poor’
Pope Francis noted that the pandemic has made us “all the more aware of the presence of the poor in our midst and their need for help”
Teachers ride waves in Mindanao to bring education materials to island...
In the southern Philippines, teachers have to travel by boat and trudge mountains to distribute learning materials
More Filipinos going hungry, church leaders call for transparency in gov’t...
A new survey shows a record-high hunger incidence of 30.7 percent — the highest rate since the previous peak of 23.8 percent in 2012
Under Marcos, Negros’ lush sugar lands turned red
A system of injustice had propped up the elite of Negros’ monocrop economy for more than a century
Serving the undeserving
If we wish to realize the kingdom of God, then we must start understanding our collective culpability for the poverty of the marginalized
A vicious cycle of poverty and suffering
Poverty has been and has always been inflicted upon those who have the least resistance
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