Published April 26, 2021, 11:30 AM
As the spirit of bayanihan is rekindled among Filipinos, more and more community pantries are being set up to help those who were adversely affected by the imposition of the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine in the National Capital Region and the nearby provinces of Bulacan, Laguna, Rizal, and Cavite (NCR-plus) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Photos from Mandaluyong PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
On Sunday, April 25, the Kababaihan Kakaiba ng Mandaluyong (KKM), with the support of the Mandaluyong City local government, opened a number of community pantries in four barangays in District 1 to provide provisions to more people. The pantries are located in Barangay Addition Hills, Daang Bakal, Highway Hills, and Poblacion.
Published January 29, 2021, 5:00 AM
East zone concessionaire Manila Water Company Inc. launched its massive clean-up at the San Juan River as part of the deal it signed with the national government and three local government units (LGU).
In a statement, Manila Water said it began to activate its Adopt-an-Estero program with various interventions to clean up the San Juan River beginning at Maytunas and Ermitanyo Creeks in Barangay Addition Hills, San Juan City.
The program is in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the local government of San Juan City.
MANILA WATER’S ADOPT-AN-ESTERO PROGRAM COMMENCES WITH SAN JUAN RIVER CLEAN-UP – Photo shows (from left )Manila Water President and CEO Jose Rene Almendras joined by San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora, DENR Sec. Roy Cimatu, DENR Undersecretary for Environment and International Environmental Affairs, Atty. Jonas R. Leones, MWSS Deputy Administrator of Innovation and Technology Ronald
Published December 18, 2020, 10:54 AM
The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has opened its own shelter for victims of human trafficking.
Department of Justice (DOJ) Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, IACAT undersecretary-in-charge, said on Friday the IACAT’s Tahanan ng Iyong Pag-Asa (TIP) opened on Thursday, Dec. 17, to serve as a “one-stop center for victims of human trafficking.”
(Emmeline Aglipay Villar / MANILA BULLETIN)
“The IACAT TIP Center is a temporary shelter for victims of trafficking in persons while they are waiting to be brought home to the province, while they are processing some requirements or documents in Metro Manila, or while foster families are still being arranged for minor victims, or until they are successfully reintegrated back into society,” Villar explained.
A Walk with Amy Astoveza of Dumagats
Xiaojun Wang A Walk with Amy Astoveza of Dumagats - Wang Xiaojun, People of Asia for Climate Solutions (PACS)
A bag of rice, probably around 5 kilogrammes, on my head, and a box of 2 dozen eggs in my arms, I was hiking through muddy roads in Sierra Madre. It was almost five oâclock in the afternoon, Aug 17th, 2019, and my destination for that night was Sitio Baycuran, a tiny cluster of less than 200 indigenous Dumagats people. I wanted to get there before it got totally dark.
Sitio is one of the Spanish words left behind in the Filipino language by the colonialists. It means âa siteâ, not of any particular reason. Just a site. Today, in Tagalog, it means âa unit even smaller than a barangay, or villageâ. Most sitios are far from everything, even from each other. Many are not marked on Google Map, or any map. I, a Chinese man, was only there because my friend, a Filipino journalist, had told me that Dumagats people in