VERA Files
Businesses must ensure the protection and safety of children in all business activities and facilities.
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOR Lotta Sylwander, her assignment to the Philippines as UNICEF Representative, is actually a homecoming. Sylwander, from Sweden, was a backpack tourist way back in the 70’s and 80’s. She met and married (they are now divorced) someone from the Rojas family of Cavite. They have two children. Sylwander arrived […]
Text and photo by ELIZABETH LOLARGA CHILD experts haven’t emphasized enough how “first years last forever” to mean that the years zero to six are crucial to a child’s physical, mental and emotional development. In fact, it is part of the United Nations Children’s Fund mandate to protect and nurture those years. With its “Auction […]