[metaslider id=33881] Text and photos by ALANAH TORRALBA ON Saturdays, Achelle “Jinky” Guion must negotiate her way through EDSA. A wheelchair user, she must pull her wheelchair to the sidewalk of the national highway and pray that a passing vehicle will not hit her. Then she must plead with a taxi driver to take her
By JOHN PAUL ECARMA MAUNES and JAKE SORIANO CEBU CITY – Deaf triathlete Lester Lagos remembers that afternoon in Cebu very well. Visiting a training session of deaf student athletes after taking part in an international triathlon competition in Cebu, he was deeply disheartened to see them practice barefoot, and without the proper sports gear
By HOMER TEODORO TARLAC CITY— For two persons with disabilities (PWDs) here in Tarlac province, dreaming big simply means being able to play their favorite sports like professional athletes.
THE Philippines is fielding its largest delegation of persons with disability (PWD) to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Philippine Sports Association for the Differently Abled—National Paralympic Committee of the Philippines (Philspada-NPC) said the nine athletes comprise the largest PWD delegation since the country first started joining in 2000.