Two volumes that amplify beyond architecture
‘Arkitekturang Pilipino: A History of Architecture and the Built Environment in the Philippines’
“Arkitekturang Pilipino: A History of Architecture and the Built Environment in the Philippines” traces the history of Philippine architecture from it
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+ March 15, 2021 I WAS a young boy studying at the Itaas Elementary School in Muntinlupa when I first heard the concept of bayanihan. My social studies teacher used the classic image of neighbors coming together to carry somebody s nipa hut to another patch of farmland to illustrate the idea.
The diversity and challenges of modern Filipino life mean that this image of bayanihan may not be as relevant as it once was. However, the bayanihan spirit is thankfully alive and well. It shows itself in many ways and in many forms, and it has been in full display throughout the Covid-19 pandemic which is perhaps the most trying period that our country has encountered in this century.
former Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio “Toting” Bunye Unknown to many, the Philippines also “donated vaccines to China” decades ago according to former Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio “Toting” Bunye.
Bunye shared this information in a Facebook post on Thursday, March 11.
“I recently came across this captioned photograph circa 1939 (preserved by UP Prof Gerald Lico) which showed that the Philippines, through the Philippine Red Cross, once donated vaccines to China,” Bunye said in his post.
The “unnamed” vaccines, Bunye added, were “produced in the Serum and Vaccine Laboratory (SVL) in Alabang, which was then operated by University of the Philippines Institute of Hygiene.”
Bunye explained that the “vaccines were turned over by Charles H. Forster, manager of the Philippine Red Cross, and Dr. Felixberto N. Fuentes, head of SVL, to Dr. C. Kuangson Young, Chinese Consul General.”