Why the youth is silent and indifferent now

When faced with public issues involving truth and corruption, for example, they find themselves in a dilemma, an unlikely reaction because the youth are supposed to be pure and unsullied.

Battered and bored

By Irene Jo Arzadon

I was 14 years old when super-typhoon “Reming” hit our province of Albay, and I was right there amid all the devastation it wreaked. Tons of mud and huge boulders cascaded from Mayon Volcano, destroying numerous villages. Hundreds were killed and many families lost their homes and loved ones. For many hours, we cowered in our homes, praying for a miracle that would deliver us from harm.

City in crisis

By Alexis Marian Africa

It was a sunny morning—too sunny for January—when I heard the news. A young dentist was found dead in her clinic a few blocks from where I live. The same incident was news far away my hometown, coming out on the television sets of concerned parents whose sons and daughters work in our “blossoming little metropolis.”

Feeling the power

By Leiron Conrad T. Martija

I was watching the local news recently and for once I actually decided not to change channels when it got to the public service segment. You know, it’s the part where they feature some unfortunate soul who needs assistance from the well-off. There’s always some kid who was injured by firecrackers, some downtrodden family living in a shanty, some hardworking Juan or Juana suffering from an incurable sickness and having mounting hospital bills, or some community with a school a kilometer away.