By Fr. Shay Cullen Powerful storms, tidal surges, high winds, toppled trees and electric posts and massive floods over a wide area, natural disasters that are typical of the Philippines. We have endured 25 such storms in the past year more than ever before. Millions of people have lost their houses, lands and crops. Thousands of […]
Fair Trade’s Accomplishment Report 2013
February 25th, 2014 | Comments Off on Fair Trade’s Accomplishment Report 2013 »TREE PLANTING PREDA ProFairTrade planted a total 2,000 mango saplings to 14 aeta communities. EEstablishment of Three (3) pilot areas for coconut-coffee integrated farming was also done and 5,000 coconut and 5,000 coffee seedlings. The project will protect the environment and will also be a source of income for the aeta communities. WATER SYSTEM PROJECT […]
THE LEGAL KILLING OF SICK CHILDREN
February 16th, 2014 | Comments Off on THE LEGAL KILLING OF SICK CHILDREN »THE LEGAL KILLING OF SICK CHILDREN By Fr. Shay Cullen It’s now the law in Belgium, that terminally sick children of any age can be officially killed when they are suffering from incurable diseases and repeatedly request to be killed. But opponents say that it’s a license to kill and a way for some unloving parents […]
THE CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE ISPs
February 2nd, 2014 | Comments Off on THE CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE ISPs »By Fr. Shay Cullen Child protection police working with Interpol and Europol have arrested hundreds of paedophiles in many countries: the UK, other EU countries, Australia, Canada and the USA for ordering, paying, and viewing Philippine children forced to strip naked and do sexual acts live in front of video cameras connected to computers. These […]
THE SURVIVAL OF ORPHAN ERICA
January 26th, 2014 | Comments Off on THE SURVIVAL OF ORPHAN ERICA »By Fr. Shay Cullen Tacloban,Leyte. I arrived here with the Preda team of social workers to prepare the way for a series of training seminars to combat the human trafficking and give group therapy to the many survivors in the squalid evacuation camps to cope better with the tragedy and great loss they have suffered […]