Philippines allocates P802M for 2,021 school counselors to prevent violence

In the wake of two school shootings that claimed young lives within eight weeks of each other, the Philippines has written a quiet but consequential answer into its national budget: not more walls or guards, but more listeners. The government has set aside 802 million pesos to place over two thousand trained counselors inside public schools, a recognition that violence often announces itself long before it arrives, and that someone must be present to hear it. It is a wager that safety, at its deepest level, is not a physical condition but a human one.