Posts Tagged education

from People’s Tonight

PRESIDENT  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has directed the Department of Education to step measures to end child labor and bring back these children to school.

“The role of children is to study, learn and play, not to earn a living at…

from People’s Journal

DESPITE the government’s nationwide campaign against child exploitation, the Philippines is still teeming with child workers, who are forced to drop out of school not only in the countryside but also in Metropolitan Manila and other urban centers…

by Mayen Jaymalin
from The Philippine Star

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) began yesterday the implementation of a four-year project aimed at providing free education to over 9,000 child workers in the country.

This means that child workers nationwide can now…

by Mayen Jaymalin
from The Philippine Star

Unlike many school children in various parts of the country, most children in Negros Occidental are not getting ready for the coming school opening next week.

For instead of going to school, a large number of…