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Outstanding Filipino Families: Helping others help themselves

Amid their daily struggles to make ends meet, this family generously shares their time and effort to help other families in need. This young family is led by a widowed mother who works as a laundrywoman to provide for her six children. Yet she is able –together with her kids – to volunteer as teacher to a non-profit organization that promotes social and economic development in depressed areas in Manila. One family, on the other hand,  has made it their advocacy to raise awareness about autism and offer support to other families who has a loved one with the same condition. Moreover, this family provides counseling and livelihood programs for parents of children with autism, as well as art workshops for kids. Another family –a young man in his mid 20s then and his mother—decided to adopt a young boy dumped by his own family. Moreover, he decided to adopt eight other homeless kids, and along with this new found family, offer literacy and values formation programs to impover

SPECIAL REPORT: Paigtingin ang Kaligtasan ng Pampublikong Sasakyan

Gaano kaligtas ang mga sasakyang pampubliko sa Pilinas? At sino ang dapat managot sa mga biktima ng trahedya o disgrasya sa public transport lalo na kung may naganap na kapabayaan mula sa panunuan nito? Kamakailan, umani ng batikos ang MRT sa disgrasyang kinasangkatutan ng maraming bata at kanilang mga ina at senior citizens. Bunsod ito ng pagtulak sa bagon ng MRT na nasira sa Magallanes station. Upang hindi maantala ang operasyon ng MRT  kinailangan itulak ang bagon ng isang pang unit ng MRT train. Sa kasamaang palad ay humiwalay ang pagkakarugtong ng dalawang tren sanhi upang dumeretso ang sirang bagon at lumampas ito sa riles na hangganan ng MRT station sa Pasay. Sa lakas ng impact ng tren marami ang tumilapon sa loob ng tren,naumpog at nasugatan. Salamat at walang binawian ng buhay sa aksidente at sinagot  naman ng pamunuan ng MRT ang naging gastusin ng mga biktima sa ospital. Sa mga nagdaang buwan at araw, samu’t saring aksidente naman sa bus ang naganap tulad ng pagkakahu