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Lockdowns bite as severe hunger hits 2 million families

Daniel Auminto lost his job and then his home when the coronavirus pandemic sent the Philippines into lockdown. Now he and his family live...

Pandemic sends hunger rising in America, and children bear the brunt

Before the pandemic closed her middle school and US immigration agents deported her father to El Salvador, Kimberly Orellana did not fear going hungry. But...

World Food Program wins Nobel Prize for anti-hunger efforts

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme on Friday for feeding millions of people from Yemen to North Korea, with...

Reopening seen to address hunger

Reopening the economy is the only guarantee to address hunger, Malacañang said Monday after a recent survey found 7.6-million Filipino families went hungry in...

Hunger cases rise to 30.7%

Some 7.6 million Filipino households experienced hunger in the past three months – a new record-high of 30.7 percent from the previous record-high of...

El Salvador children, priest launch initiatives to stave off hunger

Priest Moises Rutilio Moran didn't sit twiddling his thumbs when the coronavirus pandemic struck and his church emptied -- like many Salvadorans, he got...

Addressing hunger

The recently released survey by the Social Weather Stations, which suggested at least 5.2 million of the 110 million population of the country had...

5.2 million Pinoys suffer hunger in lockdown

At least 5.2 million Filipino families—around 20.9 percent of the population—experienced hunger once in the past three months, the highest recorded since September 2014,...

Hunger, economic downturn amid COVID-19

"The bad news does not end there."     The bad news just doesn't seem to stop coming. The latest survey by the Social Weather Stations shows that...

Fewer Pinoys going hungry, SWS says

The Social Weather Stations released Wednesday the results of a survey suggesting fewer Filipinos experienced involuntary hunger from July to September compared to the previous...

‘A good seed can change the lives of millions’

Studies showed that hunger is a daily reality for 2.4-million families in the Philippines and around 800 million people globally.  To help solve hunger, Simon...

Hunger rate on the decline, SWS says

The Philippines registered a decline in its hunger rate for the second consecutive quarter, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations showed. The SWS’...

Manicad vows to end hunger as he recalls ‘Yolanda’ crisis

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Fewer Pinoys went hungry in 4th quarter–SWS

The number of Filipinos who experienced involuntary hunger declined during the last quarter of 2018, the latest Social Weather Stations survey revealed on Thursday. READ: Fewer...
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