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We’ve seen and heard your seminar at Letran and we were very much impressed with regards to your program with Prolife and we highly appreciated it very much. We, from CCOPS is also doing the same, we also conduct seminars on Crime Prevention, Drug Awareness, Child Advocacy, Childs Rights and Moral Values. However we would like to get your approval if we could include your topics on Prolife and be one of our Resource Speakers for upcoming Seminars and Programs. Please let us know if you charge on your seminar or is it voluntary basis. Please let us know if we can work together for our Youths’ Future. Thank you.
Mr. Thomas Po
Chairman of the Board
CCOPS NGOs
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Thank you very much for allowing us to work with you. We learned a lot form this project. We’re proud to have chosen Pro-life as our “client”. Thank you for imparting to us the value of life. We will cherish it in our hearts. Thank you again… We hope to work with you again in the future. God bless you all and more power!
CORD Productions
Lyceum of the Philippines
(Ria C., Angela O., Diana R., Michelle D.)
Thank you for your kind condolences. Fr Dunne’s funeral Mass was held yesterday with over 20 priests in attendance, religious and even friends from the surrounding countries, and the church was packed with all whose lives had been touched by him in one way or another. The eulogy was especially heartwarming and many a tear was shed in saying goodbye to a wonderful man so devoted to our Lord and Mother Mary, and strong champion of the family and life movement in Singapore, a legacy he leaves us to proudly uphold.
James Wong
Singapore
This is with regard to Solita Monsod’s articlepublish in BusinessWorld, Nov. 18, 2004, “Using the wrong figure”. She cited the latest 2003 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) yield results that show that Filipino women generally want one less child than they actually have. The difference between the actual and wanted fertility rates is larger for the poor than for the rich. I believe in the accuracy of the survey. The surveys of the National Statistics Office (NSO) are widely known to be scientific. NSO did independent research and is not beholden to any private interest such as that of the USAID that helped finance the 2003 NDHS. However, population growth is not the sure cause of poverty. I believe that there is no strong and significant positive or negative relationship between poverty and population growth. This is also the conclusion of two groups of international researches. The first group was cited by William Easterly, a former World Bank economist, in his book Elusive Quest for Growth; the studies were by Ross Levine and David Renett (1992), Lant Prichett (1994) and Jeff Kling and Lant Prichett (1995). Prof. Easterly managed some of the World Bank’s population programs. Second, Dr. Geoffrey McNicoll (1999) of the Australian National University believed that “the relationship between population growth and poverty is neither obvious nor well established.” He noted five scientific studies that claim there are no solid evidences that population growth would cause or even worsen poverty. These are Gerry Rodgers (1984 and 1989); United Nations Population Fund 1993 report on the Consultative Meeting of Economists; Gale D. Johnson (1994); and, Dennis A. Ahlburg (1996).
Several social scientists in the Philippines are of the same mind. They doubt the popular thought that population growth necessarily causes poverty. Dr. Cid Terosa, of the University of Asia and the Pacific, wrote that population growth is a latent factor for growth just like knowledge. To realize the potential of population growth, the right institutions must tap the potential of a country’s population. Others, like former Social Welfare Undersecretary Rosa Linda G. Valenzona and Ms. Cristine R. Atienza from the UP School of Economics are convinced that poverty is caused by, among other things, poor governance. Factors other than higher population growth due to lack of access to contraceptives may be more convincing causes of poverty.
Jose Leo Caparas
Kamuning, Quezon City
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