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MISSING PERSONS On Wednesday the 18th of December 2002, five people went missing while travelling by small pumpboat, called Sto Nino, for a snorkeling trip from San Juan - Siquijor to Apo Island. They never arrived and up till now nothing and nobody has been found. Air searches have been made.

Seminarian Bambet who was diagnosed with kidney ailment in 2000 - how is he doing now? While he had a successful transplant, Bambet is continually needing assistance for the high cost of his medication.

Our only son Jack has been diagnosed with a very rare, life-threatening disease Fanconi Anemia. This blog has been created to help raise funds for his Bone Marrow Transplant.

Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of extra-judicial killings of political leaders and human rights defenders in the Philippines. The Asian Human Rights Commission believes that these killings are preventable, but will only stop if the local and international community publicly condemn and pressure the government of the Philippines into taking action.

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The World Challenge, brought to you by BBC World & Newsweek, in association with Shell, is a competition aimed at finding individuals or groups from around the world who have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. This competition is all about finding entrepreneurs whose projects are making a difference to communities. Please vote for coconets (for erosion control), the Philippines' finalist in the challenge. More on coconets could be found here.