by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Mar 20, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Lawrence Baganiah. I’m writing this by the ocean, staring at the mountains piercing through the horizon line. I look at all the green – the Palawan local government has made environmental sustainability one of the key areas to work on....
by 50 Percent | Mar 20, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Jeremy Calo Alvarez. Palawan, the final frontier – or rather, the Philippines’ last ecological frontier. Long ago, 95% of the country was covered with virgin rainforests, now only 3% remains. Yet somehow the Philippines remains one of seventeen...
by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Mar 20, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Freepik. In March of 2020 the Philippines, along with the rest of the world, went into lockdown because of COVID-19. Life shifted, companies shut down, jobs were lost. While some are lucky to still have a job and steady stream of income, others are not....
by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Mar 20, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Jeremy Calo Alvarez. It’s June 14, 2021. The ground still glistening from the rain that just poured. I carry my camera slung across my shoulder as I get into a mid 2000’s Toyota Avanza. I’m tagging along with my friend and his dad as...
by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Jan 31, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Sam Tamayo – Project Smile History is filled with youth movements that have sparked change in the world. From the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, to the events at Tiananmen Square, to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, to modern...
by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV. I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty’s causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...
