Children eat their meal at the World Missionary Council run by South Korea. The foundation provides food for indigent children at 3 p.m. every day at the Baseco compound in Manila. The Social Weather Stations had said that the number of hungry families increased in March. PHOTO BY EDWIN MULI
Children eat their meal at the World Missionary Council run by South Korea. The foundation provides food for indigent children at
3 p.m. every day at the Baseco compound in Manila. The Social Weather Stations had said that the number of hungry families
increased in March. PHOTO BY EDWIN MULI

NEARLY four million or 19.2 percent of Filipino families experienced hunger in March, with some saying that they came to a point where they did not have anything to eat at all, according to the recent survey of pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS).

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