Christmas Bonus for Filipinos Will Help Alleviate Severe Poverty

(13 Dec 07-RV) Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced a Christmas windfall bonus for about 2 million state workers this week. A recent study by the United Nations states that some 11 million Filipinos live on less than $1 per day. Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista of Boac told us how the Catholic Church is trying to help the situation on the ground…