Disaster resilience is a moral Imperative — not just a metric
THE PHILIPPINES has once again been named the most disaster-prone country in the world. For the third consecutive year, we topped the World Risk...
Poverty alleviation vs poverty reduction
SINCE I could not find any documents that officially differentiate poverty alleviation from poverty reduction, please allow me to offer my own differentiation as...
Petty and childish
AS A TEACHER, I saw many example of students being petty and childish, usually because they were immature or mislead but rarely as badly...
Our true wealth
WE SHOULD be clear about what our true wealth is. It definitely is not anything that comes from the world—money, fame, power, etc. Our...
The weight of functional illiteracy, 2
STRUGGLING readers are often teased, labeled “lazy” or “slow,” and slowly shrink into silence or act out just to cope. Anxiety festers. Mental wellness...
Coordination key to smarter dev’t
FOR FAR too long, we have seen how the absence of clear coordination has resulted in duplication, waste, and even outright project mishaps in...
We should channel God’s Trinitarian life in our lives
WITH THE celebration of the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity, what we are reminded of is the truth of our faith that we too...
China’s proxy war
IN PREVIOUS articles, I’ve written that Russia has already won the war and that those parts of Eastern Ukraine it has occupied are effectively...
‘Kind of hard’
BACOLOD City’s pride, Antonio “Tony” Meloto, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership in 2006, is in the hot seat.
Founder of the renowned Gawad Kalinga...