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“Bugsay hangtod mabuang! (Paddle until you lose yourself!)” This is the battle cry of the Philippine Accessible Disability Services Adaptive Dragon Boat Racing Team. Composed of amputees, Deaf, Blind, and polio survivors, they are the country’s first cross-disability adaptive team. Of...

Three “changemakers” in the Philippines were inducted as Ashoka fellows in Taguig City on Wednesday night, bringing to nine the number of people in the country who are part of the world’s largest and most prestigious network of social innovators. The newest additions to the elite group are Amina...

"Laurindo Garcia founded the B-Change Group in 2011 motivated by a wish to support the well-being of diverse communities, and use to alternative models and methodologies in order to enable this work to be sustained in the long-term. He is an accomplished community advocate and...

“'Something happened',” Amina Evangelista Swanepoel pauses. “It was always how they explained their pregnancy: ‘My parents were away and my boyfriend came over and something happened and now I’m pregnant’.” Amina is talking about the female students of her mother, Susan Evangelista...

MANILA, Philippines – For the second year in a row, the Philippine Accessible Disability Services Inc. (PADS) Dragonboat Team was triumphant at the International Para Dragonboat Championships. The competition was part of the 9th Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival, held last June 22 to 24...

On Thursday, February 21, Palawan resident and social entrepreneur Amina Evangelista Swanepoel became one of the three latest inductees into the very prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in an elegant ceremony in the Arts Center of Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Her husband Marcus and...

If you think reporting sexual assault is difficult, try doing it as a person who is deaf. The statistics on sexual abuse in the Deaf community are distressing. According to the Philippine Deaf Resource Center, 65-70% of Deaf boys and girls have been molested. A 2005 study by Lyer and...

Kolkata has a homeless population of 70,000 and a significant percentage of these suffer from mental health conditions

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