CITY OF SAN JOSE DEL MONTE—The year 2018 would be brighter for Arlene Mercado, 46, a laundry woman from Caloocan City. ADVERTISEMENTDesigners, tooNongovernment organizations have encouraged informal settlers, like Mercado, to take part in planning their new relocation site. The result of this process was unveiled in a program on Saturday by the human rights group, Kilos Maralita. Kilos Maralita undertook the project in 2011 using P9 billion from the P50-billion Metro Manila Informal Settlers Project of former President Benigno Aquino III. ‘Human rights-based’“Planning the resettlement community was human rights-based,” said Etta Rosales, former Akbayan party-list group representative.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 24, 2017 20:15 UTC