Caridad Quilacio is a resident of the Bahay Kanlungan ni Maria Domenica. She is a member-beneficiary of a program for handicapped elderly women managed by the Camillian Sisters. Before her death last August 9, 2011 she left these touching words: “We all have disabilities, whether they are visible or not. We all have things we are forced to overcome in life; I’ve...
Learn MoreBarangay 373, Zone 38, Tambunting, Sta. Cruz District is the home of 163 malnourished children who have benefited from the Hapag-Asa Integrated Nutrition Program in Manila. The people in this community lived in densely populated vicinity where circumstances of deficiency are undeniably palpable. Many families experience insufficiency of nutritional food, clean water,...
Learn MoreDumingag, Zamboanga del Sur In the past, they used to apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides in their farm. They were promised by the agent of the chemical company a double in their harvest/ production using synthetic and chemical fertilizers. In doing so, they encountered infestation problem in the farm such as “army worm” in the rice fields. This resulted to very...
Learn MoreBy Mayor Nacianceno M. Pacalioga, Jr. Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur, Region IX, Mindanao The Municipality of Dumingag is considered 2nd class municipality with 44 barangays composed of 33 uplands and 11 lowland barangays. It is a landlocked municipality and the people mainly rely on agriculture. About 90% of population are poor based on the NSCB standards. Around 84% of the...
Learn MoreBSE II-Biological Science Archie was a good example to his fellow-grantees. Until beset by extreme family poverty and ill-health of his father, forcing him to miss classes to augment daily medicines and food – and leading to absences in the last two weeks of first semester, missing of the final exams. The following article is his story of hope despite discontinuance...
Learn MoreBEEd III, SpEd Thank God for the family He gave me. My father is a tricycle dispatcher and earns sixty or eighty pesos a day. It is not enough to support a family of five, including my mother and me; a younger sister just graduated from elementary and a high school graduate of a brother who now works as a laborer at a construction company. This is why I help my mother in...
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