Expressions

madayaw!
the most popular greeting among dabawenyos to their visitors which means "hello".
davao city is located at the southern part of mindanao and is called the land of promise, the home of the native fruit delicacy THE DURIAN, the king of all fruits. Popular of its beautiful and native flower which is the waling-waling and the highest mountain in the country the Mt. APO is located where it is well visited during summer.Davao city was also named as one of the most liveable city in asia and has the most potable water in asian region as well.
Davao city is consists of different ethnic and tribal groups that shapes the city itself for its colorful history.Davao city has been the indigenous peoples life and culture for the land itself is the core of their existence.Thats why the yearly celebration of KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL exists.The celebration starts every 3rd week of august.

The festival itself pays tribute to the indigenous peoples culture and traditions and the impact of these people to the artists as well as to the community itself.
Packed with different activities the whole week;showcasing the magnificent as well as variety of concepts regarding the beauty of the city and its culture to the world that made the city more progressive now adays that despite the economic crisis that the world is facing, the city itself continues to boom for investors are coming in and the people continue to support the local government’s projects.

Kadayawan Festival consists of street dancing which displays the ethnic dances moving all the streets of davao dressed in their most colorful and very outstanding costumes. Band and beauty pageants are also being held. The displays of the city’s local goods are aslo present. Food baskets around the metropolis offers affordable and very sumptous food. Floral parade is the main event that threadens the beautiful orchids and flowers that are growing in the city which are not only locally circulated but also imported in other countries.

Every year, numbers of visitors both local and foreigners come to witness the spectacle and to experience for themselves the beauty and warmth that the dabawenyos can offer.

Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude.
mostly the victims of this are lured by false promises by the traficker and the latter forces the victims into a physically forced jobs like prostitution.most of these trafickers belongs a large group of syndicates.
it is very alarming to know that most of its victims are minors,the vulnerable ones who are forceably engaged in prostitution. the latter came from the province such as the ethnis minorities or the refugees and that they are being recruited by the traficker offering them good jobs and opportunities in the city yet the truth of it is that they will just be enslaved.
some of the minors are forceably betrothed by their own parents and relatives as payments for debts.
women on the other hand who then were being recruited especially to work in other countries are strained and threatened to be put into death aside from confiscating their visas and passport,in result they work as a human slave.they are beaten or locked up.only then they will be freed only after earning through prostitution.
psychological and emotional trauma are some of the side effects that the victims will suffer.
the government on the other hand is doing its best to prevent human traficking for it exploits women’s and children’s right.it violates the rights of the latter to live and be free among any other harmful acts and people who are bad examples of their growth.through, bills and laws made and fortunately were passed in the congress, the bill that protects among women and children were put into action.disallowing human traficking to exist if not be totaly eradicated for there will always be a villain in any situation just like the trafickers themselves who will still continue to tricked people who are mostly innocent. but as long as there will be agencies that will hepl pursue the rights of the women and the children,such problem will surely be minimized.

 
poverty is a deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life.it has been the world’s dilemma dealing with poverty. almost every country faces this. even first world countries are striving hard to meet the demands as well as supplying enough goods to provide not only to their poor citizens but also to help other nations in extreme poverty.hunger and starvation is really on high.there is lack of essential infrastructures,poor education as well as poor sanitation which endangers the health of th epeople.
population growth is one of the reason why poverty exists. the higher the population, the higher it takes also for the government to provide the basic goods for its citizens. since there is an enormous increase in population in yet there is barely enough supply of goods as well services to provide, the people will really suffer.another reason behind poverty is the economic instability of the country wherein there is a huge unemployment rate,low income rates which the breadwinner in the family cannot support his or her family’s basic needs. no job opportunities are given to the people,therefore crime rates raises even little children are involved with it.war also adds up the problem about poverty just like what happen to afghanistan,wherein more buildings were destroyed,many lives were taken away suffering millions of their people in hunger and starvation. the children are most probably affected with it.poverty is extremely seen when people living in small shanties,children are malnourished and could hardly go to school.making alms in nearby streets which would endanger thier lives.
the high prices of goods and commodities makes it more difficult for a low income father to buy food for his family thus making poverty more imminient in our society.
corruption in the government makes it more worse when government officials only think of themselves and leaves the problem to the people when they should ne the ones helping ease the burdens ogf these poor people.
if there would only be less corruption in any government so as the hand in hand deliberation among natios in helping the needy ones, poverty will surely be minimized if not be eradicated.