Youth groups join campaign to end ‘pork’

STUDENT leaders from various universities and national youth groups under the Youth Act Now! network will be joining the nationwide signature campaign and protests against the pork barrel system.

In a press conference at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Youth Act Now co-convenor and National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) national president Sarah Jane Elago and leaders of youth and student groups said they will join the campaign to gather six million signatures to abolish all kinds of pork barrel in government.