Text by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
Video by VINCENT GO
THE Commission on Elections is holding this month special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Visayas who are qualified to vote in the 2013 midterm elections. This is on top of the ongoing continuing voter registration that ends on Oct. 31.
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?
IN this country where there is hardly any socialized medical care, it’s a huge financial burden to get sick or be disabled. At a recent forum hosted by the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) with drugstores, representatives of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) complained of being refused discounts on medicines they were buying.
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.”
By KIM ARVEEN M. PATRIA MUSIC broke the silence of a humid Monday afternoon in a small neighborhood in San Pablo City. Inside a school gymnasium along a poorly paved road, a rondalla, an ensemble of string instruments, rehearsed melodic pieces for everyone to hear—everyone except those playing them. Those who held the guitars, the
