President Duterte has green-lit the start of the vaccination of the general population, including children, against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) starting this October. (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Tuesday, Sept. 28, in a...
It's proven effective for her and her two-year-old. Going viral the past few days was a Facebook post by Lei Suerte, " Dahil stress na ako sa anak ko dahil sobrang adik na sa phone. Two years old palang, daig pa matanda maggamit ng phone. Pagkagising niya , phone agad ang hanap, kaya nakapag-...
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine The Department of Health (DOH) has yet to issue an official recommendation to include children in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program as local experts are still studying the vaccines' safety and effectiveness on children. “We would like to reiterate...
Help kids learn to love reading with your books This year has kept us at home, cleaning and purging a lot of things that we might not need anymore. Most of them, if not all, still have life left in them that we couldn't bear to just throw them away. One of them are books, especially children's...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando Dela Rosa The apostles must have been shocked when Jesus told them that if they wanted to enter heaven or become great, they had to become like children (Mark 9:30-37). Most of us today might also find that difficult to understand. Children can be very demanding, greedy,...
A child rights organization warned that millions of Filipino learners with disabilities now at a greater risk of falling behind in education due to the challenges brought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo from Save the Children Philippines) Save the Children Philippines said...
Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescued at least 12 passengers, including eight children, from a distressed motorbanca off the waters of Cebu. Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescued at least 12 passengers, including eight children, from a distressed motorbanca in Cebu...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) noted a decline in its prevalence worldwide — from one in four girls from 10 years ago to about one in five today. With the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts, the UNICEF fears that 10 million more girls worldwide will end up becoming child...
The United States government has donated 25 laptop computers and 479 tablets to the Department of Education (DepEd) as part of the US commitment to support early grade learning in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. US Agency for International Development (USAID) Philippines Office of...
Like father, like son. But for web developer Imran Ahmed, his son Benyamin has been doing more than what he ever did when he was a kid. According to the CNBC report, Benyamin started programming with HTML and CSS, levelling up to JavaScript and other programs. He has now moved on to non-fungible...
Even if almost all efforts are now focused on the opening of a new school year, a child rights organization appealed to the government not to forget the millions of learners with disabilities. A child diagnosed with speech delay participates and draws during the Children’s Multi-Cluster/Sector...
UNITED NATIONS -- Nearly 10 million children in Afghanistan are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for about $200 million to respond to their needs, said a UN official on Monday. A displaced Afghan child at a makeshift camp of Internally...
