Why under such pathetic conditions? Why are there even prisons for children?

FULFILLING a promise made to Jaster Bernal, a young 6-year-old boy stricken with leukemia as a result of toxic waste contamination at former American military bases in Subic, Olongapo City, and Clark, Angeles City, HRH The Princess of Hanover came to commiserate with families stricken with death and disease. Jaster was the boy in the white surgical mask whose haunting eyes pierced his viewing audience in the French documentary “The Children of Toxic Bay,” produced by Daniel Reneuf and the award-winning journalist of Paris, Match Gilles Trichard. The young fragile child had already turned blind from the massive chemotherapy and radiation treatments by the time I flew to Monte-Carlo in Monaco in April this year for the annual conference of the World Association of Children’s Friends, or the Association Mondiale des Amis De L’ Enfance (Amade).

Premium + Digital Edition

Ad-free access


P 80 per month
(billed annually at P 960)
  • Unlimited ad-free access to website articles
  • Limited offer: Subscribe today and get digital edition access for free (accessible with up to 3 devices)

TRY FREE FOR 14 DAYS
See details
See details