Disaster preparedness, just a text away Lani Briosos-McDonough   For Virginia de Guzman, every typhoon season brings with it insecurity and fear. Living near the shore in San Francisco, a fifth class municipality in Southern Leyte, disasters are not an unfamiliar...

Loving Summer More Ayana Jamnia Maranda   Summer is a season of the year where everyone wants to take a dip in the pool, showcase their summer bodies prepared all year long, wear trendy sunnies, have the most creative selfie and groupie in Instagram, and do...

Co-ops Celebrate Centennial 2015 The entire cooperative sector – leaders, members, management and staff, regulators and the academe – will celebrate this year the Philippine Cooperative Centennial Year, 100 years after the first cooperative law was enacted by US...

A Rare Type of Peace and Contentment Anna Lorraine Galura   I always thought that technology always makes our lives easier. But no, it may also make life less convenient. In my one-week stay at Barangay (village) Look, Cardona, Rizal, it brings me back to where I...

Central Visayas Network of NGOs: One with the civil society in working for national development Aldwin Joseph Empaces   As a coalition, Central Visayas Network of NGOs, also known as CenVISNET, unifies various voices of Civil Society Organizations or...

At least I tried Roxette Joan Flores   Truth be told, I consider myself privileged. That word would best describe my #CODESummer experience. Miss Tin De Villa made it clearer than crystal when she jokingly said this line many times during the workshop: “Mapalad...