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MFIs should think Today’s complex and competitive markets offer many opportunities for innovation. Two Sundays ago, the Inquirer’s Talk of the Town featured ways to produce consumer products from three coconut byproducts—candies and desserts with coco sugar, buko juice and sports drink from coconut water, and various food preparations using coconut oil. Such innovative products not only present alternative income-generating opportunities for the small coconut farmer, but offer healthful options to consumers as well. These are indeed delightful prospects to a sector where most coconuts simply end up as copra or coconut oil. Building resilient
communities After Tropical Storm “Ondoy” wreaked havoc in Metro Manila in 2009, the poor living along its rivers and waterways have to endure anxiety over government’s repeated calls for the relocation of all informal settlements on these so-called danger zones. Authorities say the settlements are “blocking” the natural flow of water and relocation would keep informal settlers out of harm’s way. But the informal settlers say they have the right to remain in the city and that transferring them to far-flung resettlement areas where there are no viable means of livelihood would threaten their survival. They challenge government to dismantle as well the malls and affluent subdivisions occupying floodplains along rivers. |
Becoming a Church of the Poor: Philippine Catholicism After the Second Plenary Council
The volume also commemorates the first death anniversary of the late Bishop Francisco F. Claver, SJ, one of the architects of PCP II and a cofounder of JJCICSI, who died on 1 July 2010. Copyright 2011. 6x9 inches. 128 pages. Php 300. Exclusively distributed by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, Bellarmine Hall, ADMU Campus, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City. |
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| Talking Points for Dialogue on the Reproductive Health Bill The polarization of Philippine society over the Reproductive Health Bill has been a source of discouragement and discontent among Filipinos. It is unfortunate that the debate has focused only on whether the Bill should be passed or rejected in its present form. Either option would not be good for Filipinos. The Church sees in the proposed Bill serious flaws that can lead to violations of human rights and freedom of conscience. It would not be acceptable to pass it in its present form. Total rejection of the Bill, however, will not change the status quo of high rates of infant mortality, maternal deaths, and abortions. It is a moral imperative that such dehumanizing conditions should not be allowed to continue. What is needed is a third option: critical and constructive engagement. By working together to amend the objectionable provisions of the Bill and retain the provisions that actually improve the lives of Filipinos, both the proponents and opponents of the Bill can make a contribution to protection of the dignity of Filipinos and an improvement of their quality of life. |
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Produced
by the JJCICSI staff, Becoming a Church of the Poor is a collection
of essays which provide a glimpse into how the Philippine Catholic Church
has sought to fulfill the goals she set for herself in the Second Plenary
Council of the Philippines ( PCP II), convened twenty years ago in 1991.
Among the issues tackled in the book deal with family and life, agrarian
reform, environment, and electoral politics.