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Climate Change: Making Resiliency Effective and Stronger

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     Climate change is a serious issue that is going on around the world now. Every year it's getting worse. Typhoons are getting stronger. Different unusual phenomena are being felt, like the Sahara desert in Africa being flooded and having snow even if the weather there is very hot, and Mount Fuji in Japan not getting its peak snow only in this year after how many million years.     But have you ever wondered why there is climate change? It is natural and can get even worse because of manmade. The natural causes include changes in the sun, emissions from volcanoes, levels of carbon dioxide, etc. As I have mentioned, it gets worse by man-made, for example, the burning of trash, which releases greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. The greenhouse gases in the atmosphere blanket the earth, so that's why the sun's heat got trapped.  For us Filipinos, because of the getting worse climate change, we experience different...

Breaking Barriers: Making Children Safe and Protected

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      Are children really safe and protected? Every year we celebrate the National Children's Month to promote safety and protection of each one. This was adopted in 1989 to support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children. This year is themed "Break the Prevalence, End the Violence: Protecting Children in a Safe Philippines." The whole theme is mainly focused on the protection of every child and combating violence against them.       In this era that we live in right now, some children still get abused and experience violence in terms of physical and even emotional. The sad part is that they experienced it inside their own respective homes and even their community. Other children are also forced into early labor that hinders their educational journey; the reason that they are saying behind it is that life is hard. That working at a young age is the only solution to survive.              ...