Due to war, taxi drivers in Philippines are on the verge of starvation, unable to feed children due to cost of fuel.

New Delhi. Arturo Modella, 52, earns 600 Philippine pesos (about ten dollars) a day driving a taxi through the city’s busiest areas in Metro Manila, Philippines. She is able to take home only one-third of this earning. Because fuel prices have increased a lot in the Philippines and due to this their profits have reduced. She told that I am not even able to pay for my child’s lunch. Modella said that to express his views to the government, he has organized a two-day transport strike on Thursday and Friday.

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Let us tell you that at the end of the Second World War, the people of Philippines started using old American military jeeps as minibuses. The cheapest and most common mode of transportation for travelers in the Philippines is called jeepney in Filipino. A driver sits on the bonnet of his jeepney in Manila amid protests over rising fuel prices in the Philippines capital. Jeepney owners went on strike last week, which was followed by even bigger demonstrations this week. Workers from about a dozen national transport groups, from bus, taxi and minibus drivers to motorcycle taxi drivers, took part in the strike to protest against rising fuel prices. They feel that the government is not taking any steps in this matter.

Thousands of people marched to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. He demanded a cap on petrol and diesel prices, abolition of fuel taxes and stricter government control over the fuel industry. The workers, who gathered under the banner of the No to Oil Price Hike Coalition on Thursday and Friday, believe the government was too slow to act and ignored their demands for a price cap for weeks. The No to Oil Price Hike Coalition also cited US aggression against Iran as a reason for the economic hardships being experienced in the Philippines. Jerome Adonis, president of the National Labor Organization Kilusang Mayo Uno, who joined the strike, said Filipinos did not start this war, they do not want to be a part of it, but they are suffering because of it.