Bikes for Education: Pedal Power!

When getting to school takes a kid that many steps one takes to climb up and down the steep stairway at the Chocolate Hills view deck in Carmen, multiplied tenfold or more, minus the concrete steps and the great scenery, you get the sense of his dedication to get the needed education to get through life with more ease than his daily walkathon.

Jake is a sophomore student at the Baclayon High School and has been doing this daily, pretty much his whole schooling life.

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Code Orange: 2011 International Women’s Day

An intermittently rainy International Women’s Day didn’t stop women from the communities to gather and march to celebrate the victories and struggles of the women’s movement.

The march started in Cogon Shrine, this city and through the main thoroughfare of Tagbilaran, the CPG Avenue, towards “agora”, now the Tagbilaran City Square.

One of the principal issues bannered in this year’s IWD celebration is the resounding “No to Panglao Reclamation” campaign.

Other issues highlighted as well, are the fight for women’s reproductive right, pushing towards the passage of the RH Bill; violence against women; land reform; and young women’s education.

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