‘Kabayan ko, kapatid ko’
By Arlyn de la Cruz
Grace Radin arrived early at P. Guevara Elementary School in Manila’s Binondo area Saturday morning. She knew many would come and wanted to be among the first in line.
Grace Radin arrived early at P. Guevara Elementary School in Manila’s Binondo area Saturday morning. She knew many would come and wanted to be among the first in line.
The supposedly jinxed song that has triggered a slew of fatal bar brawls in the Philippines has, for a change, brought someone a lot of luck.
Today, Valentine’s Day, you can gift your special someone with a bouquet of flowers and chocolates and then treat them to a fancy dinner or for Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) employees infect them with the “love bug” to raise money for a charitable institution. They called the in-house fund-raising activity “Make a Pledge Win a [...]
A 36-year-old farmer from sitio Patag, barangay Bonbon, Cebu City, is in need of medical assistance.
Despite suffering from Takayasu arteritis renal artery stinosis for seven years, 17-year-old Cheycel Joy Calosor has not lost interest in her studies.
Yosef Andrei Sagrado, 7 months old, needs a heart operation as soon as possible. He suffers recurring pneumonia which is stunting his normal growth. This results from a problem with the arteries of his heart. His condition is called Patent Ductus Arteriosus. The required operation costs P200,000. Yosef needs help from us to raise the amount.
Their voices may have matured but their message and mission remain pure and childlike. Even after 21 years, Munting Tinig, a choir based in Barangay (village) 18 in Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City, continues to bring cheer to audiences in and outside the city with their rendition of classic Christmas carols and original songs composed by the [...]
If fate would allow it, the coming year would be good for Jeremy Justiniani, who is in the last stage of chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “After more than three years of leaving the house early in the morning searching for donors and sponsors everywhere, I’m glad that he is on his way to [...]
Still grappling with the shock and horror over the devastation wrought by typhoon Pablo, people here greet Christmas with a deep feeling of mourning, foregoing parties and ostentatious celebrations to sympathize with those who lost their loved ones to the typhoon.
Cebu City Marriott hotel marked the start of the Yuletide Season with their annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony and the unveiling of Crocs Christmas Tree. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, Korean Association chairman Ken Choi, Cebu City Marriott Hotel’s general manager Bruce Winton and sales and marketing director Chacha Rama led the guests in [...]
Since she was a little girl, May Klaire Parparan has always wanted to become a nurse. But she lost hope when a teenager rudely told her when she was 7 years old: “How can you become a nurse when nurses are beautiful and you’re different?”
It all started 30 years ago. A woman asked Dr. William “Bill” Magee to return to Naga City even if her child was not among those operated on by his team of medical volunteers, and gave him a basket of bananas.
A private cemetery here allotted 200 niches for poor residents in this city although the Supreme Court had voided a provision in an ordinance similar to the one that the city council approved in 1968 for charity burial.
