The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reiterated its answer that no caging among street children was done by the department during Papal visit in the country.

In a press briefing held at the DSWD’s SWADCAP (Social Welfare and Development Center for Asia and the Pacific) training center in Taguig City at 11 a.m., DSWD Secretary Corazon J. Soliman said that some 175 street children would be presented to Pope to further counter and prove that no caging or jailing incidence among street children had ever happened.

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