(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,...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author, who hails from Bohol, is currently in Canada. He works at a Catholic School in Manila.) This pandemic goes beyond any prediction, calculation, and data analysis. It has been a year or more of lockdowns and quarantines. Most of our senses cannot afford to notice the...
On the morning of July 4, Shanie Martinez Mehong received a text from her live-in partner -- a Philippine Army personnel -- that he already boarded a C-130 transport plane en route to his latest deployment in Sulu. Mehong's partner, Private First Class Nathaniel Bongcayao, was excited as he shared...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (Ricky Ibe, 52, is a creative and events director. He lives in Cainta, Rizal.) I have always declared myself a self-made man. Everything I achieved and acquired was because of my own doing. Then, I was made to realize it was not all about me. In life, people face trials that test...
