THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando Dela Rosa Media reports about the grim consequences of a disaster, like typhoon Odette, often show the forlorn faces of survivors, desperately pleading for help, or mournfully staring at the wreckage of their homes, hopes, and dreams. The media usually ignore how...
SURVIVOR’S TALE Survivor's Tale By NIKKI REGIO (The author is a 38-year-old full-time mother of two doing a little bit of everything. She lives in Parañaque City.) May 7, 2020 was when we lost my mother-in-law to cancer. That was when COVID-19 cases were increasing and lockdowns were being...
SURVIVOR’S TALE By MELA LESMORAS (Mela Lesmoras is a news correspondent from the government's flagship network, PTV-4. Currently, she is a member of the Malacañang Press Corps, covering presidential and Malacañang events. Before joining the media, she also served as a Sangguniang Kabataan...
(Eliza Gutierrez, 39, is a senior IT analyst in a multinational Indian tech company. She lives in Quezon City.) For 20 months now, this pandemic has indeed affected all of us in one way or another. As someone with a handful of comorbidities, it has been a challenge to see doctors for a routine...
Survivors of the 2017 Marawi siege will not be left out in the cold. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) assured Monday, Oct. 18, the displaced families that they will be assisted until they get back on their feet. It reported that more than P1.2...
37396 (Antenor Mendoza Hernandez, fondly called as “Fr. Pops,” is a priest of the Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan, and currently on loan to the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, where he now serves as division chaplain of the 5th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, based in Gamu,...
Survivors and surviving families of the submerged fishing boat last month received support and assistance from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC). Philippine Red Cross / MANILA BULLETIN “Nakikiramay ang buong Philippine Red Cross at ako sa mga namatay sa trahedya (The entire Philippine Red Cross and...
By JOHN KARLO LEGARDE (The survivor in this story is a four-year-old girl named Kassy. Her father tells this story on how faith drew communities together to pray for a miracle to heal her from a very rare virus.) Thirty days in the hospital, 23 of those in the intensive care unit (ICU) where my...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author is a senior graphic designer working at a home furnishings company in the UAE for 12 years now. ) I've been wanting to take a break from work. My husband and I have been away from home for three years now because of the pandemic. Since traveling abroad is now...
Prayers and support helped her gather the courage to fight the virus SURVIVOR’S TALE I was home for almost two months when I got COVID-19. The only time I went out was to visit my late parents in Manila Memorial Park in Sta. Rita, Bulacan with my siblings and their families, together with my...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author is a Filipina transgender who was managing a bar in the Ginza district in Tokyo until it closed due to the pandemic. This is how she coped and continues to live in an expensive part of Tokyo for more than a year since the lockdown.) TOKYO, Japan – I opened my iPhone...
SURVIVOR’S TALE “I am God’s miracle,” Cora Villanueva, 65, said a year after she tested positive for COVID-19 and became one of the most critical cases in Bacolod City. She survived the disease after being in the hospital for five weeks. Three weeks of that, she was in the ICU,...
