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SELF-RELIANCE. Instead of begging for alms, a Lumad family sells several varieties of herbal medicines at the sidewalk in front of Sangguniang Panlungsod in Davao city yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Self-reliance

HAVE FUN WILL PLAY.High School students spend their lunch break playing at the playground of Magsaysay Park in Davao City yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Have fun will play

VARIETY OF CHOICES. A shopper checks discounted ready-to-wear clothes on display inside a store at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Variety of choices

ROCK SOLID. Davao City First District Rep. and House Committee on Appropriations chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles reaffirms his family’s full support to the leadership of President Duterte during Nograles media party at The Royale House in Davao City on Sunday evening. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Rock solid

UNDERSCORING. Department of Science and Technology 11 assistant director Elsie Mae Solidum (third from left) walks members of the media through the details of the upcoming DOST’s Technology Transfer Day, a Mindanao-wide activity aims at promoting the DOST generated and assisted technologies to its intended beneficiaries, stakeholders and private sectors, slated today at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center. Solidum was joined by Industrial Technology Development Institute TSD chief Nelia Elisa Florendo (leftmost), Engr. Rosemarie Garvia (second from left) of DOST 11 Food Nutrition Research Institute, Adamson University Chemical Engineering Department professor Dr. Merlinda Palencia third from right), DOST 11 Metals Industry Research and Development Center’s Maria Girlie Millo (second from right, partly hidden) and Philippine Nuclear Research Institute head of Chemistry Research Section Dr. Lucille Abad during yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Underscoring

BRIGHT VICTORIA. Christmas lights illuminate the parking area of Victoria Plaza along J.P. Laurel Avenue in Davao City 15 days before Christmas day. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Bright Victoria

JAYWALKING. Two mothers and their children cross San Pedro Street a few meters away from a pedestrian lane yesterday. Some Dabawenyos still violate the city’s Anti-Jaywalking Ordinance a week after its implementation. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Jaywalking

SENT HOME. Most lumads being hosted by the city government of Davao were sent home yesterday while others, like this group living temporarily under Agdao flyover, will continue to ask Christmas gifts from the city's residents until Christmas day. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Sent home

SME EXPO. An exhibitor introduces her company’s products to a shopper during the opening of a three-day Mindanao SME Business Expo 2016 at the activity center of Abreeza Mall in Davao City. LEAN DAVAL JR.

SME Expo

HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES. A group of human rights advocates led by lawyer Manuel Quibod (second from right), Cocoy Tulawie (rightmost), Mary Ann Arnado (second from left) and Ann Gultiano (leftmost) hold small placards written with slogans during this week’s edition of Kapehan sa PIA at Abreeza Mall in Davao CIty. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Human Rights Advocates