BAYANIHAN: Alive inside a Cemetery

Sheba Babac is an active DPC member of Tanza-Timawa 2, Iloilo City and thus sees how her fellow urban poor strive to survive every day. Furthermore, their experiences have enabled them to grow and cope with other problems that they are, and will be, facing. Tanza-Timawa 2 is a community inside a cemetery, which is why it is locally known...

Water means food in Sitio Sukiap

Kalinga, Philippines – Despite modern times, time seemingly stood still for local farmers in a remote village in the Cordilleras due to their backward farming methods. Using bare hands, bolos, and carabaos, local farmers from Sitio Sukiap of Barangay Tanglag cultivate their lands to provide food on their tables. However, their produce remains scant and unable to sustain their families’...