Almost all children in the Philippines will experience around five annual heatwaves by 2050, increasing the possibility of heatstroke, dehydration, and preterm births, a study showed. In a joint study conducted by UNICEF Philippines and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR),...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged immediate action to address the country’s worsening child nutrition and education crisis—a call strongly welcomed by the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2), which vowed to accelerate key reforms to safeguard...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) called on all leaders on Monday, Aug. 26, to take a stand in protecting the rights of every Filipino by supporting the judicial processes designed to bring “perpetrators to justice.” (DSWD / Manila Bulletin) “It is particularly...
President Marcos is pushing for more positive and nurturing programs for children as he encouraged Anak TV to continue advocating for wise media consumption and encouraging its consumers to produce relevant content. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (file photo) Marcos said this in...
Almost a fifth of Filipino children were not enrolled in school or regularly attending classes, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Based on the PSA’s Annual Poverty Indicators Survey for the school year 2022 to 2023, it was found that 18.6 percent of children aged five to 24...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Saturday that the government has done everything to "make sure that every Filipino child has a Christmas." At a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Malacañang, Marcos said making Filipino children feel the Christmas spirit was "a good goal" for the...
A new study has revealed that there is an “alarmingly high prevalence of insufficient physical activity” among Filipino children and adolescents, with only 15.4 percent meeting the global physical activity recommendation. This is according to the Youth Physical Activity Report Cards released by...
Academic advocates from Teach for the Philippines (TFP) are hopeful that the new administration would bring in new bouts of inspiration and impact for children nationwide. Photo courtesy of TFP / Niki Baroy The TFP expressed hope that the education of Filipino children will be among the priorities...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina It’s a pandemic within a pandemic, and it’s an urgent issue that we ought to focus on especially because November is National Children’s Month. A recent World Bank (WB) study said that childhood under-nutrition, long considered to be a...
An intervention study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) under the Forging Public-Industry Society Alliance: PISO for Healthier Schoolchildren project showed that school lunch feeding and nutrition education intervention package...
One out of six or 15.5 percent of Filipino infants and children aged six months to five years had vitamin A deficiency (VAD), particularly those in the rural areas, based on the 2018-2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) of the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition...
Majority of Filipino children and young adults are worried that climate change is threatening the people and the planet, a recent study conducted worldwide showed. Citing the first global large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people co-led by United Kingdom-based...
