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The Millenium Dev’t Goals: Towards a better future
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Why MDGs?
Why MDGs? The path to development is not easy to tread. In fact, it’s a tricky route. |
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Convergence efforts key to sustain gains beyond 2015
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Julius used to blame his common–law wife Theresa when his peers, one by one, started avoiding him. |
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Rising above poverty –– still an MDG challenge in CAR
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When night falls, 37–year–old Shirley Torralba, a single mother for eight years now, hurries home with only a bowl of rice and a simple viand to feed her three children. |
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The rewards, challenges of bringing children to school
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In its 26 years of existence, the Department of Education witnessed a consistently increasing enrollment in public schools. |
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CAR needs to double efforts in gender equality
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The United Nations has embarked on ambitious goals, the top of which is to make extreme poverty a thing of the past. |
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Bridging traditional and modern maternal care
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Progress reports with how the Philippines is faring in terms of complying with Goal 5 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do not show a rosy picture of the country’s state… |
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Mobilizing TB prevention initiatives through CorCat
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Tuberculosis continues to be one of the most dreaded but easily treatable infectious diseases. |
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Aiming for a responsible and AIDS–free generation
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“The full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV epidemic, including in areas of prevention, treatment, care, and support.” |
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CAR’s toilet and water woes, issues on hygiene addressed
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In 2001, a tissue paper advertisement was prematurely withdrawn from being shown in various forms of media when feminists and a religious sect complained the ad degdraded women |
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Increasing forest covers and wildlife conservation glitches
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The Cordillera region recorded an impressive accomplishment in the country’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly Goal 7 |
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The electric dream goes on for Cordillera’s remote sitios
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The task of providing electricity for every sitio in the Cordillera remains far from over but efforts are currently in full swing to get the job done… |
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Perspective on Cordillera’s progress along the MDGs
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From the 2012 poverty statistics released by the National Statistical Coordination Board in December 2013, one out of five Filipino families and one out of four Pinoys were poor. |
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CAR’s own ‘branchifying’ festival–versions
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Before the ‘Freedom Constitution’ of 1987, we were witnesses to efforts of government for the soonest and effective achievement of nation-wide ‘Solidarization’ – bannered in the slogan |
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67th Anniversary Cartoon
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Jogin Tamayo |
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