For nearly all the pandemic, Marlen Zilmar woke up to the sound of roosters. Before the sun reached its fierce apogee, she would swing a makeshift watering can made of a perforated plastic bottle over ...

When Dr. Katrina Magbojos joined the Philippines' Doctors to the Barrios (DTTB) program, she was assigned not to a distant island or a conflict zone, as the term "barrios" might suggest, but to ...

The price of WiMax CPEs (customer premise equipment) must fall to a cost-effective level for operators before the masses in rural areas of the Philippines can access the wireless broadband standard.

I volunteered with the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) during the summer of 2020 and was asked to create educational health campaigns for Barangay health workers (BHWs) ...

Analie, a 15-year old farm girl in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato, stopped going to school last year. The money her parents saved for her education was spent during the last planting ...

A Catholic missionary group in the Philippines marked its 50th anniversary this week by renewing its commitment to serving the poor in rural areas. The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), a ...

The central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has moved to boost banking services in rural regions by lifting restrictions on the number of branches small lenders are allowed to operate, while ...

Heavily exposed to increasing incidence of extreme weather events, the Philippines is among one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world. Climate-induced disasters in the ...

The economic disparity of the nation’s rural and urban areas is a problem of long standing. Will the lessons of the pandemic finally lead to change? By Sammy Westfall LEYTE, the Philippines — For ...