Shelter, rice, wage and oil top urban poor list
May 26, 2008 in Baguio City, general, situationers, urban poor
Ornus celebrates silver anniversary
BAGUIO CITY (May 23) — While the city’s urban poor remained hopeful that the demolition of structures would end in the communities where they have settled, the current rice crisis and the rising price of oil add burden to their daily struggle against poverty.
“Nagtalinaed a ti kangrunaan a dawat dagiti nakurapay nga umili ket ti desente a pagnaedan iti syudad,” (Urban poor’s priority demand remains to be a decent home in the city) Geraldine Cacho, chair emeritus of the Organisasyon dagiti Nakurapay nga Umili ti Syudad (Ornus) said during the alliance’s 24th anniversary assembly at the Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary here. Read the rest of this entry →


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