Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 01:12:32 +0000
Opinion: Vancouver’s institutions — city hall, park board and police department — are debating what should happen to Oppenheimer Park and its residents.
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Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:04:54 +0000
A special meeting has been called for Thursday evening to talk about what to do with the homeless campers in the park following three shootings this week in the area.
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Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 03:45:59 +0000
Mayor Kennedy Stewart says progress has “stalled” on plan to relocate Oppenheimer Park campers into social housing
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Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:48:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines— For Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, getting six million Filipinos out of poverty was the “hardest” and “most demanding” challenge President Rodrigo Duterte had laid out in his State of the Nation Address (Sona). Speaking before the joint session of Congress on Monday, Duterte reported that poverty declined in the country. “Poverty […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:45:40 +0000
Thanks to the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Yolanda Mendoza, finally had enough pocket money to treat herself and her family to a few burgers. She stepped into a fast-food joint as a paying customer for the first time—at age 40.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 23:23:48 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The world is increasingly facing a “climate apartheid” where the rich would pay to escape the worst effects of global warming while the poor would be left to suffer, the United Nations warned.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ccepeda| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:44:21 +0000
A young girl from Alabama makes “blessing bags” filled with food and hygiene products to give to those who are homeless.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 06:48:16 +0000
A daughter of a jeepney driver not only beat the odds of poverty, but also inspired everyone as she is set to graduate as Ateneo de Manila
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 09:33:02 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Caritas Manila, the social action arm of the Archdiocese of Manila, welcomed on Monday the signing of Magna Carta of the Poor.
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Credit to Author: Erin Cooley| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 14:39:48 +0000
I found a blindspot in my empathy, and our study confirmed it.
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