Category Archives: Causes

My girl in pink

I don’t have much pink stuff around here except the hair comb and the plastic pouch of the moisturizing bath salt I recently purchased. Oh yes, I have a picture of myself wearing a pink pajama (the last photo). My daughter’s favorite color is blue. But I noticed that she’s wearing pink in some of…

Sea Lion artist

One of the attractions inside Ocean Adventure in Subic is this shop run by the Wildlife In Need Center where paintings made by sea lions and other souvenirs are displayed and sold to visitors and tourists. My son enjoyed the whole adventure including the shows presented by talented animals and their trainers. We would love…

Walk the extra mile

Oftentimes, social workers have to perform certain task beyond the call of duty. This, I know from a nun that I met while conducting interviews with social workers at Caritas. The nun recounted her six-year stint as member of the disaster management team of their religious organization. Two of her unforgettable disaster experiences were the…

Remove middlemen

The new government of President Aquino could learn something from this. Since weeding out corruption is the order of the day for P. Noy maybe he should begin with getting rid of middlemen in terms of purchases for the government such as medical and surgical equipment for government-operated or state-run hospitals and firearms magazines and…

A child’s thought on environment protection

Last school year, my son’s 4th grade class was assigned by their teacher to draw something about preserving the environment and write a paragraph about their drawing. My son submitted this simple drawing, but I feel proud of what he wrote to describe the important points of his drawing. He is only 10 and yet…

Blog Review For A Cause

Buy a blog review for $10 and help Baby Bella for her Hernia operation A hernia is the protrusion of an organ through the wall of the cavity that normally contains it. When a hernia is not repaired, it may become strangulated. When strangulation occurs, there is a danger that part of the intestine be…

Run for your health, run for Pasig River

A total of 101,010 marathon runners coming from various sectors are expected to join the largest charity run to be held in October. The event called 10.10.10 RUN FOR PASIG RIVER is part of the “Malinaw” advocacy, one of the many initiatives of the ABS-CBN Foundation to restore the Pasig River. “Malinaw” advocacy was launched…