‘Poverty root cause of many sufferings’

“Poverty is the root cause of many Filipino families’ suffering,” Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo declared minutes before she spearheaded the formal opening of the “Angat Buhay” (Lifting Lives] program of the Office of the President on Monday.

Robredo explained before a huge crowd from various non-government organizations and civic groups and more than 50 officials and representatives of local government units that “[p]overty is a larger war that needs our focus and attention [because it] claims lives of pregnant women who do not have access to proper health care.”