Monthly archive December 2009

Vivian Panes is an elementary teacher from the barrio. Like other teachers, she rides a motorbike to the school located in the outskirts of Midsayap, North Cotabato. But unlike other women in the area, she chooses to drive her own motorbike.
 

Poor communities in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao are finding the will and means to share the government’s responsibility in improving their children’s education.