Ten child-caring agencies attended the opening salvo of the Adoption Consciousness Week celebration last February 11. The weeklong celebration started with a motorcade along the major thoroughfares of Cebu City and culminated with a program held at…
THIS 11-year-old boy has just been orphaned along with his four siblings — aged 5, 8, 13 and 17 — their parents’ bodies riddled with gunshot wounds found lying inside the cemetery of Banacon Island a day…
TEN child caring agencies attended the opening program of the Adoption Consciousness Week celebration last month. It was participated in by the Albert Schweitzer Familienwerk Foundation, Asilo dela Milagrosa, Children Shelter of Cebu, Pari-an Drop in Center,…
The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD- 7) has lined up various activities in celebration of the Adoption Consciousness Month. These activities that will be done in partnership with the Department of the…
SEVERAL people have shown interest in adopting “Baby Boy X,” the newborn who was found in a shopping bag at the roadside in barangay Basak last Tuesday.( Read : Who left newborn in shopping bag? ) “Ubay-ubay…
Filipino-American James Beni Wilson spent most of his 25 years wondering about his real parents. As an adopted child growing up in Michigan, USA, he was teased by playmates about his brown skin. “I always thought that…
The essence of a woman, paraphrasing Miss Universe 1993 Sushmita Sen, is being a mother. 1992 Miss Teen Cebu City and 1993 Miss Cebu Tourism Iris Jasmin Castillo-Cular knows this too well. Gifted with a loving husband,…
Through their Facebook page, the Cebu City Pound managed to turn over nearly a thousand stray dogs and cats to the care of families for the past three years. “Facebook helped us reach out to families willing…
