By Glemir Sordilla HAPI Scholar Ever since I was a kid, I bombarded my parents with my curiosity. “Why does the moon follow me everywhere?” I used to ask, or “Why did you say Santa gave me my gift when I know it’s from you?” Despite my genuine interest and hunger for answers, they always […]
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By Rado Gatchalian The FILOsopher For centuries, this mind-boggling question, “Does God exist?” has catapulted our civilizations to secondary, yet also primal, questions of peace and violence, of good and evil, of liberty and authority. It is 2021 and we still battle with this one fundamental question that ultimately defines our existence: who we are
By Merlie Figura HammerChemist & Retired Medical Underwriter Some basic definitions: an epidemic is when a disease affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. A pandemic is an epidemic that has spread over multiple countries or continents. As Covid-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic. When the disease spread
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By Steven Angelo Abellera La Union, PhilippinesHAPI Member When lockdown got imposed in the Philippines, many of us immediately started wondering what we could to keep us busy throughout the duration of the community quarantine. It was from that boredom that the YouTube BL (or Boys’ Love) series sensation blew up. While the term might
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by Sherwin Dane Haro San Jose, Antique, Philippines January 16, 2021 As far as character arcs go, “varsity chess player” to “mixed martial artist” to “seminarian” to “pastor” to “HAPI Executive Director” might be as wild as it gets, and yet that’s exactly the route that the man on today’s Spotlight, Alvin John “AJ” Ballares,
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Sherwin Dane Haro Dec. 8, 2020 San Jose, Antique, Philippines Audio narration by Sherwin Haro. It was right after the end of hosting HAPI Scholars’ E-Numan: Secular Parenting and Coming Out virtual talk last Dec. 5 that I noticed something peculiar. Unbeknownst to viewers and Zoom guests, the broadcast team — which included the man
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Sherwin Dane Haro Nov. 3, 2020 San Jose, Antique, Philippines Audio narration by Shane Haro All too often, we hear stories about people who experience a painful childhood and come out the other side too broken to ever enact positive change in the world. Mutya Valenzuela, HAPI Board of Trustees member and one of the
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Sherwin Dane Haro Aug. 26, 2020 San Jose, Antique, Philippines Audio version of the article. Narrated by Shane Haro. Striking up a casual convo with HAPI Executive Secretary Filipinas del Valle, the first thing you’ll probably notice is her total lack of a filter. With that rowdy attitude, loud cackle and a potty mouth that
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HAPI Reaches Out to Help Our HAPI Kids in Alabang During COVID-19 Crisis Written by Jamie del Rosario-Martinez April 27, 2020 Alabang, Muntinlupa City Nang mag-chat sa akin si Ms M upang kamustahin ang kalagayan ng HAPI Kids ngayong panahon ng enhanced community quarantine o ECQ, binigyan ko agad siya ng update. Karamihan sa mga
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HAPI in Celebration of International Women’s Month 2020 Written by Maria Juana Valenzuela March 29, 2020 Las Piñas City, Philippines “The women in my community are the most powerful inspiration.” This International Women’s Month, Humanist Alliance Philippines International – HAPI is Celebrating Women in every way, shape and form: for their struggles, for their strength,
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