‘We only want to feed our children’ – North Cotabato farmers
‘We only want to feed our children’ – North Cotabato farmers
“Hunger. This is what we have been experiencing. I hope our government officials would stop lying.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA –For months, Arlene Amar and her three children have been surviving on cassava and banana. There are days when they eat only once.
Amar said all the corn she planted in December died in February due to extreme drought. She had no other source of income.
“My children are crying because of hunger and poverty,” Amar told Bulatlat in a phone interview.
Her fellow farmers have been suffering, too. They received no help from any government agency. “We decided to go to Kidapawan City to demand immediate relief. We only want to feed our children,” she said.
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