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One Step, One Wheel, One Return
During the Philippines’ National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week, a Rotary-backed team in Bicol delivered both prostheses and wheelchairs to beneficiaries who had waited years for either By PDG LYNE A. ABANILLA, Physicians for Peace Philippines On July...
A New Way to Move: Mobility Comes to Iloilo City
ILOILO CITY – There is a particular kind of stillness that settles over a person who has stopped expecting to move on their own again. It is not despair, exactly. It is something quieter than that. An adjustment. A folding inward. You learn to wait for someone...
When Two Countries Decided to Help Someone Walk
MAKATI CITY – On the afternoon of April 29, 2026, a turnover ceremony took place at Ospital ng Makati. On paper, it was a formal handover, a grant fulfilled, devices delivered, signatures and photographs, and the official launching of a project. But ceremonies...
Below the Knee, Above the Knee, and the Long Work of Walking Again
There is a particular grief that comes with losing a limb, and it is not only the grief of the body. It is the grief of all the ordinary things that suddenly require thought. Standing up. Crossing a room. Stepping off a curb. The thousand small movements a person once...
The Night the Twenties Roared for a Better World
MANILA HOTEL, Manila — I have given speeches in many places. Barangay health centers with plastic chairs lined up in rows. School gymnasiums with the lights half working. Remote island shores where the only applause was the slap of water against a boat. But on the...Stay in the loop
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