The national campaign trained the spotlight on the seemingly forgotten areas in Mindanao. VotePH | alipalajulieINQ /PDI
“They sacrificed their lives for our country; we must not forget their sacrifices,” she said.
The Pulungbato-Abong-Abong stretch covers close to 32 hectares, according to city assessor Erwin Bernardo. On Nov. 14, 1984, Climaco was gunned down at Buenavista–La Purisima Streets while helping firefighters put out a fire. A week later, some 200,000 people came for his burial near the grounds of the World War II memorial.The national campaign also trained the spotlight on the seemingly forgotten province of Basilan.
“Even COVID-19 cannot easily penetrate our island, which has been covered and protected by mangroves,” said Nacida Angko, 33, a single parent of two children. “No one got sick here, not even our elders, because we always got the sun and the sea for everyone.” She also described the 1,000-ha island as isolated from the town center, where some houses were on stilts.It was only in 2021 when the construction of the P10.21-million concrete bridge was finished that the island was finally connected to Malamawi village on Basilan’s mainland, she added.
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