Feature Story
Dárlán Páléncìá Bárcélón
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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Today poverty becomes a formidable challenge for the civilization to find a solution and an ultimate test to the sincerity of humanity to share.
In the Philippines, poverty is the main cause of social ills that breed so much misery among rural and urban poor families. To some, poverty is the true state of the nation and one family – that of Jose Villa Villanueva represents the concrete symbols of poverty spanning three generations. Theirs was a living example of this social ill plaguing Filipinos. With sheer courage and determination, they proved that they convey their misery to the country and to the world. Their four months and nine days across the Maharlika Highway along the perilous 550 kilometers from Manila to Legazpi City sends a strong message that should rouse the government’s snoring bureaucracy. Continue reading FAMILY OF SEVEN PEDALS BACK TO LEYTE TO START A NEW LIFE