Some children made a bit of money during this yearly interlude of remembering the dead. According to the Inquirer report by Quezon correspondent Delfin Mallari Jr., the “lettering boys” cleaned and repainted tombs and grave markers for amounts ranging from P100 (for sprucing up just the names and dates on tombstones) to P350 (for “the…
The high cost of education only came third on the list of reasons many Filipino children are not attending school, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).