“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. At the same time, Robredo said, women are disenfranchised by poverty. Small farmers, fisherfolk and laborers who produce the country’s food are ironically the ones who are hungry and lack proper nutrition, she noted. Poor people do not earn enough to meet their families’ basic needs, Robredo said. Our potential tells more about us than our past inadequacies,” the Vice President said.

Source: Manila Times October 10, 2016 12:56 UTC