The film ‘Fields of Hope’ will screen on April 23 as part of the Manhattan Film Festival in New York City. It follows three boys, Jarred, Julius, and Kenneth, who endured the worst of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) when it devastated Leyte in 2013. Through their participation in the Mission Tacloban grassroots football (soccer) program, […]
The Philippine Consulate is holding a General Assembly of Wardens on January 16 at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue. The meeting will be from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The assembly is being called following the December 2 San Bernardino shooting where a married couple went on a shooting rampage […]
By Cristina DC Pastor The Elmhurst, Queens apartment where housekeeper Wilma de Jesus lives looks like a maze for lab rats. The living room is creatively partitioned using book shelves, wall dividers, and bamboo screens. Each space has a futon or a sleeping bag a tenant calls her bedspace. Wilma shares this apartment with a […]
By Julie Stroud Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was the strongest typhoon ever recorded, with unprecedented wind speeds. Despite advanced warnings, Yolanda exacted a devastating toll on many Filipino provinces. Buildings and trees were leveled, and there was significant loss of life in the surge of water. Headwaters Relief Organization joined […]
The Build A Shelter Project (BASP), a community-based and Consulate-led initiative aimed at building more than a hundred houses in four villages in Eastern Samar and Leyte in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, handed over 22 houses to 22 families in Barangay Pago in Tanauan, Leyte on April 23, 2015. Vivian Talambiras Cruz, one of […]
By Cristina DC Pastor It was around 3 p.m. of March 26, and Jordan Cezar, shift manager at Pommes Frites, was about to take his lunch at one corner of the restaurant when he experience a really loud explosion. He felt the room shake, and the poster décors on the walls and the kitchen pans […]
By John Sapida I was a young child, around 9 years old, when the September 11 attacks happened. I do not remember much about my personal reaction, or if I had any, but I knew that amidst the emotions and confusion around me, this was something out of the ordinary. Recently, I decided to pay […]
By Melody Garcia-Muniz An all-volunteer Mobile Soup Kitchen for Kids (MSKK) was organized to feed children and families in dire need of assistance following the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever to hit the Philippines Formed immediately in the aftermath of the super typhoon in November 2013, MSKK went to Tacloban with […]
By Jen Furer In 2012, my sheltered view of America was shattered when I received this message on Facebook: “I am Lisa and I live in one of the Arab countries. I am searching for a Filipino community that can help me because I am very worried for my mother who is working with an […]