Lifting the Poor: A Microfinance NGO Approach in the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis E. Warnock ◽  
Veronica Cacdac Warnock
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
The Poor

scholarly journals PHOTOESSAY: Buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Fernando G. Sepe Jr
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Dead

The photoessay Healing The Wounds From the Drug War was the trail of people’s lives that have been disrupted by this brutal campaign in the Philippines. It was about what happens to those people left behind after the killings. Some who survive end up in decrepit jails. The families of the dead, mostly from the poor who get by in hand-to-mouth existence, end up buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial. But it also a story of hope for those given a new lease of life by organisations willing to assist in the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

scholarly journals One hundred years after the expedition by Harvard University to Peru to investigate Carrion’s disease. Lessons for science

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Salinas-Flores
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Human Experimentation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

In 1913, around 100 years ago, the Harvard University sent an expedition to Peru, led by Richard Strong, to investigate Carrion’s disease. This paper provides a critical review of the scientific research carried out in this expedition.Richard Strong was a physician who performed unethical human experimentation in the Philippines and China. In Peru, Strong conducted experiments on humans to inoculate wart secretions to a psychiatric patient, which led him to replicate the Peruvian wart in this individual, although he could not replicate Oroya fever. Based on this experiment, and without taking into account epidemiological and clinical evidence, the Harvard expedition erroneously concluded that Oroya fever and Peruvian wart were two different diseases.A retrospective review of the scientific work conducted by the expedition in Peru allows drawing the following lessons for science: a) disapproving unethical human experimentation conducted by the expedition; b) to determine the cause of infectious diseases, it is necessary to obtain the best scientific, experimental and observational evidence, and c) to acknowledge that, despite the poor infrastructure, researchers in developing countries are able to produce high-quality scientific knowledge that may surpass the knowledge generated by researchers in developed countries.

Carceral and Colonial Memory During Pandemic Times in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Dada Docot
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Food Scarcity

#CommunityPantryPH is a mutual aid movement that began in the Philippines in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement is founded on the slogan ‘give what you can afford, take what you need.’ Instead of the movement receiving an overwhelming welcome, especially within conditions of food scarcity and health insecurity during the long-lasting pandemic, the Duterte government attacked volunteers with ‘red-tagging’ tactics—the malicious calling out of individuals as communists, which may result in harm both online and in real life to those red-tagged. The public response also circulated myths about the supposed indolence of Filipinos receiving aid and how the volunteers are fanning a culture of dependence among the poor. In this article, I introduce the concepts of ‘carceral memory’ and ‘colonial memory’ in understanding colonially inherited punitive, civilising, and self-deprecatory logics that have become embedded in postcolonial disciplinary regimes, and which suppress dissent and shape popular attitude and consciousness in the Global South.

scholarly journals A review of tuberculosis contact investigations in the poor urban areas of Manila, The Philippines

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Coprada ◽  
S. Yoshimatsu ◽  
A. Querri ◽  
E. Lopez ◽  
P. Agujo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Contact Investigations

scholarly journals The Development and Dynamics of Public–Private Partnerships in the Philippines’ Education: A Counterintuitive Case of School Choice, Competition, and Privatization

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Andreu Termes ◽  
D. Brent Edwards ◽  
Antoni Verger
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Voucher Scheme ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Education Service ◽  
Education School ◽  
Philippine Government

Educational public–private partnerships (EPPP) have been widely implemented in the Philippines, primarily through the Education Service Contracting (ESC) voucher. Yet, the effects of this voucher on privatization of education, school choice, and competition dynamics remain largely understudied. This article addresses this gap through an investigation of families’ school choice patterns and schools’ logics of action in the Philippines’ education. Paradoxically, despite the pro-private sector impetus of the Philippine government and the implementation of the voucher scheme, the privatization of school provision in the Philippines is diminishing, and the schools receiving the voucher are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the poor families to whom the voucher was initially targeted. In parallel, despite its initial equity focus, the voucher has led to different patterns of school choice among families and to an array of responses by schools, both of which have combined to accentuate school segregation and stratification dynamics—between and within schools.

Beneficial Effects of Ashitaba (Gynura nepalensis): Users’ Testimonies

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
FLORIDA U. URSULOM ◽  
ANICETO R. RIALUBIN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Anti Cancer ◽  
Angelica Keiskei ◽  
Anti Oxidant ◽  
Quota Sampling ◽  
Descriptive Method

Ashitaba (Gynura nepalensis, Gynura procumbens, Gynura acutifolia) is the ashitaba grown in the Philippines. Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei Kodzumi) originated in the Island of Hachijo, Japan. Both ashitaba have been studied by researchers using animals and in test tubes and have been claimed to be anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, antiaging, anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, and anti-diabetic. Generally, this study aimed to widen the dissemination of the beneficial effects of ashitaba (Gynura nepalensis) based from testimonies of users. This study utilized the descriptive method of research with data presented in tabular form and analyzed in textual manner, used quota sampling, interview with guide questions, and frequency and percentage and rank. Findings showed that giving a lighter and healthier feeling, emitting stomach gas and giving a lighter feeling, and giving energy ranks 1, 2, and 3, respectively; on the other hand, aiding in dialysis, treating pharyngitis, goiter, and pain in nipples ranks last among the testimonies of respondents. Based on findings, it is concluded that ashitaba (G. nepalensis), is a health enhancer, medicine and good for health maintenance. Further, it is recommended that the result of this study be widely disseminated to be of help particularly to the poor, rich, pharmacologists, food businessmen, researchers, and other interested identities.Keywords: Social Sciences, Gynura nepalensis, Gynura precumbens, Angelica keiskei Kodzumi,quota sampling, Philippines

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