by ALKFI | Sep 5, 2019 | Children’s Rights and Development
Seventeen children are now free from abuse and neglect after they were turned over to the Children’s Village of Bantay Bata 163. Nine of them were “Lope’s” children. “Siguro malaking pagbabago na nandito sila, kaysa nandun sila sa labas kung saan-saan nakarating. Mas...
by ALKFI | Aug 14, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
In celebration of the National Disaster Resilience Month, ABS-CBN Foundation- Sagip Kapamilya, an emergency humanitarian assistance program, recently signed an agreement with Manila Water Foundation. This partnership aims to help Filipinos who are vulnerable on...
by ALKFI | Aug 6, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
Her family struggles to obtain food every day, thus, going to school with an empty stomach is just a normal thing for her. Even if scarcity of food means eating once a day, it never hindered Warik Pan, a sixth grade pupil of Sapang Uwak Elementary School in Porac,...
by ALKFI | Jul 16, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
“Didto sa ubos pa, sa dapit pa sa dagat, luoy jud amon kahimtang. Lisod kaaayo ba, lupad lupad atop lagi”, (Before, we were living down there by the sea. It was unfortunate that our roof was dilapidated.) said Eliza Ladeza, one of the recipients of Sagip Kapamilya...
by ALKFI | Jul 4, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
School year 2019-2020 for public elementary schools already started, but there are school children who go to school without school supplies. Prince Jared Calundoy is one of them. Prince Jared is a grade two pupil of Asinan Elementary School located at Buenavista,...
by ALKFI | Jun 28, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
“Habang naglalakad ako papuntang school, iniisip ko po na sa pag-aaral ko, makakaahon din kami sa hirap,” said Reynaldo. Ten-year-old Reynaldo dela Cruz is a grade three pupil from San Isidro Elementary School in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. He walks more than two...
by ALKFI | Jun 13, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
“Noong pagkatapos po ng lindol, hindi po namin alam kung makakapag-aral pa po kami kasi nagiba po ang mga bahay at classrooms namin. Pero sabi po ng teacher namin huwag daw po mawawalan ng pag-asa kasi may dadating at dadating na biyaya.”(After the earthquake, I...
by ALKFI | Apr 29, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
Yabon Elementary School is a modest little school in Brgy. Yabon Hinabangan, Samar. It currently has 92 students and four teachers. However, in 2013, Super Typhoon Yolanda took their two (2) Marcos-type classrooms away, leaving the students and teachers to conduct...
by ALKFI | Apr 2, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
“The winds made the survivors feel like they were inside a washing machine. Guiuan was a place where the destruction and extreme anxiety did not make any sense.” These were the words of Agustina Opana, Guiuan National High School’s Supreme Student Government President...
by ALKFI | Mar 13, 2019 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
Nelson Lasacar was sitting in front of his daughter-in-law Rachel del Lumiguid and his grandchildren as they waited for a program to start in Brgy. Cogon Sur, Loon, Bohol. It was about the turn-over of the Core Shelter Program organized by Operation Sagip and the...
