Tag: Poverty
Teacher battles remote conditions, pandemic to help educate tribal village children
To reach remote Philippines school, teachers have to ride sled pulled by a carabao to cross rivers
Pope Francis asks Catholics to pray for maritime workers
Without the people of the sea, many parts of the world would starve, pope says
Pandemic job losses and flooding spark fears of hard times in...
The low-lying, heavily populated nation is regularly hit by flooding, but experts fear the impact this year may be worse due to job losses caused by the pandemic
Faith-based group distributes bicycles to poor front-liners in Mindanao
Due to the quarantine measures, some of them were walking for hours each day just to get to work
Lean days for Manila’s jeepney drivers made penniless by pandemic
70,000 jeepney drivers lost their income when govt suspended most public transportation due to the pandemic
Pandemic means farmers in India struggle to sell livestock for Muslim...
Muslims are also unable to practice sacrifice that honors Prophet Abraham’s obedience to God’s will
SPOTLIGHT: Church program helps poor meet food needs during pandemic
Program gives more purchasing power to poor families while helping to protect them from COVID-19
Scavengers in India risk health to sift coronavirus debris
Landfill site littered with used, plastic coronavirus test kits, protective gear and cotton stained with blood and pus
Indian slum beats COVID-19 but suffers under lockdown
Despite social distancing and home quarantining being near impossible, the lack of infections in Dharavi is nothing short of a miracle, priest says
UN poverty report on Malaysia falls on deaf ears
Envoy accuses Malaysian govt of ‘statistical sleight of hand’ in claiming it has a poverty rate of 0.4 percent
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