While other high school graduates are busy picking universities best to enroll in, Marisol, Rhea and Jenny are busy looking for opportunities to enroll in any school for their college education. A couple of months prior to their graduation, Marisol De Castro, Rhea Doce and Jenny Doce, students of Sampiro National High School inBrgy. Sampiro, continue reading : COLLEGE: THEIR ONLY ESCAPE OUT OF THEIR SITUATION
More inspired to move forward after Pantawid Pamilya
As the youngest in the family, Maralyn Nario, 16, looks up to her six siblings for almost about everything. For her, they are her role models and have ever since helped her in making decisions about life. After graduating from high school last March, she made the best decision she learned from her siblings so continue reading : More inspired to move forward after Pantawid Pamilya
WEAVING A BETTER TOMORROW
At the end of every school day, Rose Anne Conde has to rush home to weave hats. Sixteen-year-old Rose Anne, a resident of Brgy. Sisilmin in Cavinti, Laguna Province, learned the art of weaving hats made of pandan leaves at an early age of seven. The woven hats have been the family’s main source of continue reading : WEAVING A BETTER TOMORROW
Haven for the Elderly 5th Anniversary Celebration
In celebration of the Haven for the Elderly’s 5th Year Anniversary, the Department of Social Welfare and Development will hold a series of activities on April 20 to 28, 2015 at the center’s compound in Barangay Sampaloc, Tanay, Rizal under the theme ‘Haven for the Elderly, Patuloy ang Pagbangon at Pagunlad.’ The activities for the continue reading : Haven for the Elderly 5th Anniversary Celebration
EVERY EFFORT COUNTS
In a poor family, every member’s desire to get out of the situation counts. For the Cabangon Family of Brgy.Taguin in Macalelon, Quezon Province, it is through every member’s hard work that they’ll be able to achieve the good life they all are dreaming to have. Melanie, a mother of five, is thankful that the continue reading : EVERY EFFORT COUNTS
WORKING TOGETHER, IMPROVING TOGETHER
With no dull moment together, a group of more than 30 mothers finds it hard to believe that they were once strangers to one another. “Noon, kapagnagkakasalubong kami sa barangay, hindi kami nagpapansinan.Perongayon, malapitnakamingmagkakaibigan. Magkakapatid pa ngaangamingturingan,” shared parent leader Josephine “Josie”Talmadge, 34. If there was anything common among them, it is making bamboo sticks continue reading : WORKING TOGETHER, IMPROVING TOGETHER