Prevent Domestic Violence and Create Living in Peace and Harmony towards Happiness! ================================================ Most people want happiness in life and people say, happiness is in yourself! One story…
In 2013 me and my business partner started a grassroots movement called Wealthy Sisters Network. To me a grassroots movement is something that is started from NOTHING. Because this organization teaches women to be wealthy in…
"After breakfast, we run to catch our lunch; after lunch, we try to catch our supper. Sometimes we forego breakfast or supper. We eat only once,”said a woman survivor of Typhoon Sendong, describing in stark terms the…
This essay was published online, a few months after the super typhoon hit my country. I want to share this because of the recent tragedy that shook Nepal. My prayers go to all the people of Nepal. Tacloban City and the HeArt…
Gender Education on Human Rights to create livelihood skills towards Family wellbeing and Gender Equality ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learning is a long life…
There’s a traditional Chinese saying that — “A woman must obey her father before marriage, she must obey her husband after marriage and she should also obey her sons after the death of her husband” And — a daughter who is…
The riveting saga of Mary Jane Veloso has hogged the headlines in the mainstream and social media lately. Every major international network ( Time , The Guardian , Aljazeera , BBC , Washington Post ) and Philippine national…
Stringing paper flowers has been Grandma Yolanda’s rite of marking a new year of work for six years now. As the dust from the previous night’s fireworks is wiped from the bamboo chairs, she takes a seat and starts by waxing…
A woman, in her 20s, seated at the edge of the concrete bed inside her cell, kept on rocking herself, her hands clasping so tightly the hem of her blouse by her crotch. A woman in her late 20s, pregnant with her fourth child…
Despite the fact that women’s education is emerging as a top priority of the international development community, there are still widespread gaps, a lack of funding, and general neglect of women’s education on a global scale…
Gender-based violence (GBV) and persistent paradigm of human being; shall we change it and when..? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today I heard from the women priest in the Women Worship…
As I wrote in my post on LinkedIn , I've always wanted to do this - run a workshop for girls to teach them about ICT - but what about ICT? It is such a broad area and so much to learn from, that sometimes we may be saying…
I founded Standing Tall a Social Justice Organization in 2009. We address a number of issues that face everyone and mostly women. Our Profile was accepted to the UN civil society.We partner with other groups and also are…
The disability organization I am helping is in need of office equipments to establish a functional office to start "a normal workday". At the moment they have no real office and no equipment to use for their daily activities…
A story of strong woman facing hurdles, obstacles, hardship in her life. A mother of 6 daughters and wife of drugs addicted husband who is not happy on her giving birth to only female gender and showing hatred towards his…
"Come join us and celebrate the holiday with a group of people like you, are advocating for the rights of people with disability" Art called me days after the New Year. For some unforseen reasons I was not able to meet this…
As the heat of cuaresma becomes almost unbearable these days in the Philippines, I invariably turn to memories of Benin in West Africa. There, at the fringes of climate change’s “Ground Zero”, no mourning bell tolls for the…
Last of a five-part series Eventually, in October last year, I made a digital story version of The Girlfor the massive online open course (MOOC) , "Powerful Tools forTeaching and Learning :Digital Storytelling,." that was…
4thof a five-part series I did not plan to be at the funeral. I knew about her murder. I heard it over the radio. The day Siche Gandinao was to be buried, I was on my way to pay my overdue water bill when I chanced upon some…
3rd of a five-part series Later at the cemetery, Maria stayed far from her siblings and cousins, near the open grave. From where she stood, she saw her wailing mother asthe latterand her siblings took a last look at their…
The stove fire hisses blue as the dark bitterness overflows from the stainless Thai ewer that I bought on the sidewalk of Sharia Rokab in Ramallah, and I do just as you used to tell me: do nothing, do not stir. Hadeel, I am…
2nd of a five-part series At the church, the children who dressed in red sat on a pew as they witnessed a stream of their grandmother’s friends and colleagues came to honor her leadership and friendship. Maria, the gladiola-…
1st of a five-part series About eight years ago, on an almost singeing mid-morning in March 2007, the remains of Siche Bautista Gandinao, 54, was buried. Gandinao was a human rights defenderamong farmers in Salay, Misamis…
“Transformation of invisible labour force in to a Change Maker”- Case study of some vibrant SHGs – Manbazar-II CS-01 Name of the SHG : Paisagora Bidhu Chadan Mahila Dal, Name of the Village - Paisagora Date of formation : 25…
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Greetings in peace, joy and progress this New Year from Northwestern Mindanao, Philippines. We write on the possibility of your support to our people's desire to revive their cultures through the…
