Addition of 3 more CBWCCs in Manila and Eastern Samar. Of 8 clinics, 4 were accredited as birthing 

clinics by PhilHealth multiyear projects with Inter Pares and Global Affairs Canada. Clinicians in 2 Manila 

clinics were trained in cervical cancer screening, management of sexual violence, and HIV counseling by 

Médecins Sans Frontières.  

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Fielding of 2 teams of COs to Eastern Samar in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan; who provided 

psychosocial support and RH services; organized Abante Kababayen-an (women’s organization); set up 

“women’s safe spaces” in the community; organized collective gardening of vegetables and root crops; 

and Abante women with government and other resources. 

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Organizing of diverse advocacy activities, e.g. holding of Women Deliver Philippines in partnership with 

UNFPA; making and dissemination of the video, “Fighting for Life” and the play, “Breaking the Silence” on 

abortion; resisting RH restrictions through pickets/delegations to localities that banned contraception; 

staging a “die in” at the gate of the Archbishops’ Palace; holding the 2nd “women’s long march” to the 

House of Representatives and the “Buntis March” (march of pregnant women) to the Supreme Court; 

and camping-out beside the House of Representatives for 6 weeks in “Occupy for RH.”  

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Other advocacy efforts, e.g. experts’ RTDs on contraceptives and Sexuality education; researches on   the 

state of Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Catholic Religious 

Fundamentalism, and Adolescent Fertility and Contraception; Philippine Laws and Policies on 

Adolescents’ Contraception; and Evidence against the Purported Abortifacient Effects of Contraceptives 

(submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  

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Approval by Sigrid Rausing Foundation to use their funds to acquire building for Likhaan’s central office 

in Quezon City in 2013.