[metaslider id=34942] Text and photos by ALANAH TORRALBA CATARMAN, Northern Samar — Classes are held in rooms without roofs, and when it rains, the rooms are swamped with floodwater. This lone Special Education Center (SPED) in Northern Samar sustained heavy damage from Typhoon Nona (International Name: Melor) last year. Some 1,200 classrooms were destroyed, costing
Text and photos by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and YVETTE B. MORALES WHEN she walked into her first day of teaching back in 2007, Leah Reyes was rendered speechless. It was not because all eyes were on her as the new substitute teacher. Rather, not all of the students in the classroom could see. Reyes had
By JAKE SORIANO Nine-year-old Sebastian walked into the covered court with a medal in his hand. “Kagabi niya pa hawak iyan. Tapos sabi niya sa kapitbahay namin, ‘May medal ako (He has been holding on to that medal since last night. He proudly showed it off to our neighbors)!’” explained his mother Rosalina Guelas, referring
