Young Filipinos aged 25 and below are invited to submit amateur videos between 90 seconds and 8 minutes in length, showing how they feel about the over 3.6 million teenage pregnancies in the Philippines, about condoms and contraceptives, about sex education, about visiting a gynecologist, about premarital sex, about virginity, about anything related to reproductive health. The deadline for entries is September 30, 2011.
Response to Mulat Pinoy Post Entitled “RH: Through the Eyes of the Youth”
I am not against reproductive health, but I am against the taking away of other rights as a consequence of achieving that right which is only given within the context of marriage. What about the rights of the unborn child? What about the right of women to give birth?
Recycled Diapers
Malinaw na hirap silang buhayin ang batang iyon lalo pa’t sila na rin ang tumatayong ina’t ama nito sa panahong nitong lubhang nakaasa lamang ang sanggol sa kaniyang tagapag-alaga.
First Time In Payatas
Every night hundreds of dump trucks all over Metro Manila and nearby provinces snake their way through Payatas. They carry hundreds of tons of dirty proof of man’s wasteful ways. They leave in their wake a foul stench that fills the already polluted air of the city, followed by hordes of disease -carrying flies.
Prosti -Tu(i)tion : Prostitusyon pang-tuition
Hindi biro ang halagang kailangang bunuin sa pagpasok sa unibersidad. Sa panahon ngayon, at kahit na sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas na dating halos anim na libo lang ang binabayad kada semestre, sampung taon na ang nakalilipas ay nagbabayad na ng higit sa dalawampung libo ang isang estudyante sa isang semestre.
The Importance of Being Empiricist
“Right now we are growing at about two million per year, so those ten years means an additional 20 million, and on the assumption that our poverty incidence is at 26%, that translates to additional 5.2 million poor individuals.”