201910.09
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Providing water for waterless communities

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and NALCO Water Philippines (NALCO) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement for a water system project in Calauan, Laguna. The project titled ‘NALCO Brings Safe Water to Site 2 of Southville 7,’ aims to build a water treatment system that will provide safe drinking water to at least…

201910.04
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Bridging the learning gaps

Every day for 15 years, Babylin Palban would cross a small portion of the Sapangdaku river in Cebu several times just to monitor her teachers and teach students who are attending classes in two different locations. Her kindergarteners as well as the first, second and third graders are housed in the barangay hall on one…

201910.04
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The ‘jail’ that taught agriculture

In the town of San Vicente, Catbalogan City, there is an abandoned jailhouse with nine hectares of mostly forested land. Archimedes Fabellar did not know why he signed up for the monumental task of transforming it into a senior high school for agriculture but from the way things have turned out, he is glad he…