On March 12, 2014, Preda Project officers – Roger Hermogino and Shawn Brooks with two foreign volunteers – Aliyah Hong and Patricia Fehrentz, went to Guiuan, Eastern Samar to distribute vegetable seeds particularly in the Island of Manicani as part of the assistance given to the victims of typhoon Yolanda. Manicani Island is about 45 […]
Vegetable Seed Distribution in the island of Manicani, Guiuan Eastern Samar. March 11-14, 2014
April 11th, 2014 | Comments Off on Vegetable Seed Distribution in the island of Manicani, Guiuan Eastern Samar. March 11-14, 2014 »Trafficking in Innocence after the storm
April 11th, 2014 | Comments Off on Trafficking in Innocence after the storm »By Shay Cullen, SSC Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year-old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning to rescue the child, just one of thousands of children trafficked for sexual abuse each year in the Philippines.and […]
An eyewitness account on the funeral of Romy Capalla
April 4th, 2014 | Comments Off on An eyewitness account on the funeral of Romy Capalla »BY Alex Corpus Hermoso I took a taxi cab from the airport of Iloilo to join the motorcade that was organized by the civil society organizations, NGOs, POs and sympathetic political organizations to demand justice for the slain leader, Romeo Capalla. Upon boarding the cab, I immediately started conversation with the driver to ask about […]
The ISPs must obey the anti-child porn law
April 2nd, 2014 | Comments Off on The ISPs must obey the anti-child porn law »Child pornography and cyber-sex involving minors is a serious crime against the person and dignity of the child. The Philippines is becoming a leading source of these illegal images and children are being abused in the making and distribution of them. The child porn images are spread around the world through the Internet and the […]
RELIGIONS UNITE AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS
March 31st, 2014 | Comments Off on RELIGIONS UNITE AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS »By Fr. Shay Cullen It was a solemn moment in the great meeting hall in the Vatican where the joint agreement and statement was to be signed by the representatives of the great world religions. It was not some lofty, irrelevant declaration to work for mutual respect for different faiths but to launch the “Global […]
