Through floods, storms, and long walks, Rey learned that storytelling is not just performance but presence, showing up even when conditions say otherwise, because children kept showing up too.
Power remains, but momentum slips, as the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. drifts from direction to reaction, showing how leadership can weaken without a crisis.
Publicly floating persona non grata threats turns a precise diplomatic tool into applause politics, shifting focus from Chinese misconduct to domestic noise and weakening the very authority the state is meant to protect.
Through floods, storms, and long walks, Rey learned that storytelling is not just performance but presence, showing up even when conditions say otherwise, because children kept showing up too.
By integrating Food for the Hungry’s Resilience Framework, organizations help communities move beyond aid toward lasting, self-driven resilience and dignity.
After years of silence, the return of transparency offers a faint light of hope, however, its survival depends on whether those in power choose openness over control.
“The Death of Disclosure” reveals how the Ombudsman’s 2012 rules turned the once-powerful SALN into a tool of concealment, proving that transparency in the Philippines did not fade by accident but was buried by policy.
Once a moral safeguard, the SALN has become a ritual of illusion, proof that in Philippine politics, transparency without consequence is not accountability but performance.