When we met 19-year-old Jovie Erillia, mother to two-year-old Jhon Kyle, at her home in Santa Margarita in Samar, Philippines, she was living with her partner and his family. She had just turned 16 when she realized she was pregnant, the only one among her friends to face a pregnancy while still in school. “Shocked”
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Headline News: The Women Workers Health Empowerment Network Recognizes the Power of a Woman in Charge of Her Own Health
The Women Workers Health Empowerment Network in the Philippines is offering free comprehensive HPV screening using a new technology.
Finding her worth: Vanessa’s story
San Isidro, Philippines — A single mother and a teacher, Vanessa shares a tiny house in the village of San Isidro in central Philippines with her two children, mother, stepfather and six younger brothers. And she is the happiest she has been in six years. After enduring years of emotional and verbal abuse from her