VERA Files
Autism advocates have found a good answer to that Miss Universe question asked of Miss Philippines last week: What is the most significant change you have seen in the last 10 years?
By JAKE SORIANO THE annual Angels Walk for Autism reached new heights Sunday. A record crowd of 15,000 people, bigger than last year’s number, attended the event at the SM […]
[metaslider id=33392] Text and photos by ALANAH TORRALBA YSABELLA Canoy is busiest on Thursdays. It’s the day of the week when she juggles managing her café and supervising trainee-employees. She […]
Text and photos by JAKE SORIANO THE message of the estimated 12,000 “angels with wings” dancing to the beat of Taylor Swift’s pop hit “Shake It Off” was a simple […]
By DARLENE CAY FOR persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their parents, 67-year-old Jean Gonzales is one mother whose dedication not only to her son but also other children with disabilities […]
By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS THE campaign to raise autism awareness in the country is as old as my son Giancarlo Miguel, he is now 17. From that time that my kid […]
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
WHEN her first child Ibarra was born 20 years ago, Matec Villanueva, then 32, felt like she was a Ms. Universe contestant onstage answering a crucial question asked, the question being “What is the essence of a woman?” Her quick answer at that point in her life would have been “Motherhood!”
BY YOLANDA L. PUNSALAN
VERY soon, a special place for special people will rise somewhere in Batangas.
It will be the answer to the agony of parents with children with autism: who will take care of them when we are no longer around?
FIFTEEN-year-old Carlo woke up at 5 a.m last Sunday. While he knew it wasn’t a school day, he got up in his usual way asking for his instant pancit canton for breakfast. There was no resistance this time wearing his P.E. uniform that normally he isn’t so comfortable with. He was off to Mall of Asia at sunrise to join “Angels Walk.”