Title: Dexter Balsamo Youtube Channel
Author: Dexter Balsamo
Date Started: April 29, 2012
Key info: Dexter Balsamo was a student at PCNHS school located in Pagadian City. In his vlog, he shares his ideas about what the TVL strand is all about together with his friends. 

Url: https://devpolicy.org/rebuilding-education-peace-mindanao-20170920/
Author: Imelda deinla
Key info: "An estimated 10,000 displaced children from the recent Marawi conflict will be unable to attend school this year. There is genuine fear that out-of-school children are vulnerable and at risk of being recruited by extremist groups. The education deficit in ARMM is so serious that only one in ten students will complete high school."

Url: https://www.worldvision.org.ph/blog-for-children/social-worker-story/
Author:Jhoy Maung
Key info: "Working with World Vision now as Program Officer is the coming together of all the lessons I learned as a social worker. Advocating for the betterment of children in the communities of Misamis Occidental is humbling. The need in many communities in Mindanao is massive but this calling reminds me that this world is still full of kindness."

Published: March 21, 2010.         

As the population of the Philippines continues to grow, poverty and civil unrest is widespread on the island of Mindanao. Mindanao's poverty can be attributed largely to past migration and economic policies of the Philippines government that delayed economic growth. Furthermore, since independence was obtained from the United States in 1946, the condition of life of Mindanao's poor has worsened due to such factors as internal conflicts between government forces and secessionist movements. This paper sheds some light on the dilemma of poverty, government policies, migration and civil unrest on Mindanao, southern Philippines.

Author: Al Jazeera English

Date: Mar 22, 2019
Key info: About one in five of the Philippines's 106 million people live in extreme poverty, getting by on less than two dollars a day. Many, including children, work long hours as street vendors or laborer's to make enough to feed themselves. Hunger occurs the most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where 70 percent of workers are poor.

Reporter: Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan.

Published: Nov 11, 2010

Key info: In Davao and in the Zamboanga Peninsula, across the highlands and all the way to the remote coastal villages of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) Project of the ILO has helped a generation of poor men and women optimize their human potential, stimulating economic empowerment and sustaining peace and development.

Key info: Unlocking Mindanao’s Potential to solve the poverty in Mindanao. There are 40% of Philippines agricultural goods came from Mindanao, this can give us a big impact of solving poverty, we just need to raise our agricultural productivity and improve connectivity, while doing that we need to improve our quality of basic educations and promote peace so that entrepreneurs will start giving jobs to the people of Mindanao. 

Date:  AUGUST 6, 2018
Key info:  Enabling Business to Reduce Poverty in Mindanao was explored at the World Bank. a thriving business hub that benefits from economic zones, heavy industries, and agricultural businesses With one-third of the impoverished in the Philippines but just a quarter of the population, unleashing Mindanao's potential will be vital to reducing poverty across the country.

Date: July 18, 2017
Key info: The recovery of Mindanao's economy is critical to the growth of the Philippines. Plantation crops, forestry, mining, and heavy industries supported an import substitution regime in Mindanao's economy. These industries had minimal local multiplier effects because they were capital-intensive, required little local processing, and reinvested little profit locally.