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Rebuilding better: Women entrepreneurs reboot their businesses
More than 30 women entrepreneurs from across the Philippines have seen their businesses recover after taking part in the FLIP YOUR BIZ program delivered by GREAT Women in partnership with the Rebuilding Better Project of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and J.P. Morgan...
Susan Roces: 80 years of a life & memories of a movie icon
A few hours before deadline, I am watching FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano where Susan Roces was known as Lola Flora, the barangay captain.
For close to seven years, she was part of this teleserye. Almost always, I was invited in the yearly anniversaries.
She would muse...
Daddy, can you please buy me time?
Among the most iconic Filipino images of fathers are those showing our overseas Filipino workers coming home from, or leaving for, foreign shores to take on jobs for a better future for their families. And more often than not, beyond the hugs and...
The Prince of Tagurabong
I lived in a big house with my widowed mother, a grandmother and an unmarried aunt. My mother, Sofia Villasin Peñaranda, was a schoolteacher. We would walk to school together. But after class, I would walk home with my classmates who would linger...
A gentle woman (our Yaya Taling)
“How did Taling end up in our household, Mommy?” I have turned my curiosity during the pandemic to our family history and my question to my Mom must have sent the neurons in her 90-year-old brain firing. But she did recall Taling’s story...
Women in Philippine politics and how they get there
March is women’s month, thus, among other stories, this take on women in Philippine politics, not by a political pundit, nor a social scientist but by one from womankind who hold up half the sky.
Thirty-six years apart, in a different, yet similar...
