Volunteers on National Children’s Book Day

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 07/20/2019

  July is an exciting month for storytellers, book lovers and reading advocates as this is the month when we celebrate the National Children’s Book Day (NCBD). NCBD commemorates the date of the publication of Jose Rizal’s…

NANAY SAYS: Petrichor and Basadours

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 03/09/2019

It was not the place I wanted to be in on a Wednesday morning, January 4, 2012. I was still on a vacation from my job in a non-government organization and I very much wanted to spend…

Basadours brings artful activities to Naga kids

PR 11/16/2018

Basadours Inc. rolled out a series of storytelling sessions last October to the children of Naga City who were displaced from their homes due to recent landslide. The monthlong outreach project took off on October 4 at…

literacy initiatives Basadours’call to volunteerism

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/01/2017

  As the country commemorated Bonifacio Day on Thursday, somewhere in Cebu City, a modern-day “revolution” was waged. At the Cebu City Public Library (CCPL) and Information Center along Osmeña Boulevard, headquarters of a nongovernment organization (NGO)…

Lessons from Story Hours

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 11/11/2016

Turks and Caicos — Eighth day on this boat and I have only seen one child with a staff from Crystal Cruises who’s with her all the time. I am starting to turn weepy and whiny as…

Basadours writes, tells ‘Boy Hero’ story

09/01/2015

The story of how an 11-year-old boy helped the police in tracking down a thief to return a pair of earrings to a schoolteacher took centerstage in the Basadours’ storytelling at the Cebu City Public Library held…

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