"The situation has changed very little," said a Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial in March when the PSA released the statistics, adding that poverty "remains the one that overshadows the economic achievements of the Aquino administration." Aquino ended his six-year, single term on June 30. "...
MANILA, Philippines - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned that hunger would become a major problem in Asia and the Pacific as global population swells by more than two billion between now and 2050.In a report, Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: Key Challenges and Policy...
I have been to refugee camps in Hong Kong, Malawi, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Philippines, and Germany. In each camp, the people were treated as if they were throwaways who were left with the crumbs, if that. Political unrest befell the people who were lucky enough to escape with their lives...
equator. In Haiti, protesters chanting “We're hungry” forced the prime minister to resign; 24 people were killed in riots in Cameroon; Egypt's president ordered the army to start baking bread; the Philippines made hoarding rice punishable by life imprisonment. “It's an explosive situation ...
The multidimensional approach of the GHI offers several advantages. It captures various aspects of hunger in one index number, thereby presenting a quick overview of a complex issue. It takes account of the nutrition situation not only of the population as a whole, but also of a physiologically...
Finally, the group visited the recent graduates to review their situation and plans. One of the most important outcomes of the training at SAFI was to motivate students to do more, to be more. The first student the group visited was drying hundreds of bricks to build a new house because ...
the current situation and problems, then how AI can be used to solve the matters. The Minecraft Education Edition requires participants to design and present the strategies / solutions using Minecraft: Education Edition, and optionally to add Microsoft Azure AI APIs. The AI Applicati...
Philippines (AFP) said on Friday the members of the so-called "Morong 43 are free to stage a hunger strike in their detention cell," adding that no one is preventing them under the democratic system of government."We understand the stressful situation of the Morong 43," AFP spokesman ...
the emergence of the community pantry in the Philippines, which was prompted by the government’s inadequate response to the plight of the hungry poor due to prolonged mandatory lockdown in the National Capital Region. I then turned to Emmanuel Levinas’ concept of hunger as the basis for the...