MANILA: More Filipinos went hungry in the last three months, with rates nearly doubling in the Visayas and Mindanao regions, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll done last September.
The survey found 22.9 per cent of Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger — 5.3 points higher than the previous poll last June and the highest since the 30.7 per cent figure in September 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown.
