Written on 20 March 2020 as a message to scholar-athletes whose competitive season was put in limbo as games were suspended and most were asked to go home or stay in dorms in quarantine. The piece suggests seven challenges to athletes to keep in mind during the interim period so as to be productive and positive during the lockdown period when group training and practice was made impossible.
Coaches and athletes who have prepared all year round to be fully fit for the sports contests yet to be concluded have all felt let down; though expected perhaps, it was still a painful blow. But a difficult decision had to be made, and the UAAP Executive Director Rebo Saguisag and its current President Em Fernandez issued a letter confirming the abrupt end to its Season 82. Written 8 April 2020.
It is expected that the new realities brought upon us by the COVID-19 pandemic may change the way we prepare for our upcoming employment. However, some things will remain essential such as giving a good first impression in a job interview. In our Episode 3, the CEO of JobStream, Ms. Maridel Mampusti talked about the […]
Young people far and wide, in our country and in other countries as well have played an important part in promoting critical causes even before the pandemic struck: climate change, making poverty history, protesting inequality and injustice, promoting women’s issues and protesting domestic violence, advocating good governance and shouting down corruption in high places in governments and private enterprises, promoting workers’ rights and ethical practices in business, transparency and accountability in governance at all levels, and freedom of information and dissent. During the quarantine period, young people were equally involved in different ways. In this piece written on 8 April 2020, a small inspiring story of two siblings who refused to sit still during the quarantine period to do more is shared.