In 2020, I was introduced to a photography project that left me speechless. For ten years, Jacob Maentz had been photographing the Indigenous communities
SunStar PRO 7 ‘rescues’ 19 indigenous minors from Cebu retreat house
RESCUED FROM RETREAT HOUSE. Jomar Binag, 21, of Poblacion, Compostela Valley, Davao de Oro, is arrested by members of the Police Regional Office 7 Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 for his role in the alleged kidnapping and trafficking of 19 minors whom police rescued in an operation at the retreat house of the University of San Carlos-Talamban Campus in Cebu City. Six other people were arrested in the Monday morning operation prompted by complaints from the minors’ worried parents. (PHOTO BY BENJIE TALISIC)
+ February 15, 2021 A TOTAL of 19 minors were rescued from the University of San Carlos (USC) retreat house through an operation done by the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7, Women and Children Protection Center Visayas Field Office 7, the Department of Social Welfare and Development 7 and the Municipal Social Welfare and Services on Feb. 15, 2021.