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Informing youth in Manila: Health on the margins

The streets of Metro Manila, the Philippines, are bustling with life. Street vendors push their carts along the concrete, calling out their goods and price. Children rush past, chasing each other. Teenagers gather around street corners, chatting, texting, joking. Chonalyn Deiparine, a Youth Mobilizer with Likhaan Center for Women’s Health, is spending her time today…

January 27, 2020

Spreading awareness: Health on the margins

Lorena Abad, a Community Health Promoter with the Likhaan Center for Women’s Health, moves confidently through the alleyways of a slum in Metro Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. She is spending her day visiting her neighbours at their homes to talk with them about their reproductive health. Lorena Abad is a Community Health…

October 29, 2019