The residents in the small community of Layag-Layag in Zamboanga City have gone a long way in piecing their lives together after the heavy fighting 2 years ago. Their main source of income – seaweed ...

In the small coastal community of Layag-Layag in Zamboanga City, families rely on the sea for their income, growing and harvesting seaweeds. For the generations of Tausugs living there, this is the ...

MANILA, Philippines – Dozens of dirt-poor children in a Philippine mangrove village no longer have to swim to school while straining to hold their books above the water. A blogger who learned how ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—Ten-year-old Asnarul Orim usually looks forward to returning to school after the summer break like the rest of the 200 elementary pupils of Layag-layag, an island village ...

Heroes come in all sizes and from all places. In October 2010, at a bloggers’ meet in Zamboanga City, communications manager Jay Jaboneta heard about children from the village of Layag Layag, who were ...

MANILA, Philippines>>Dozens of dirt-poor children in a Philippine mangrove village no longer have to swim to school while straining to hold their books above the water. A blogger who learned how ...

MANILA, Philippines - Kaloob Philippine Music and Dance Ministry will present “Layag: Journey of the Filipino Soul in Dance” at the Folk Arts Theater on Aug. 3, 8 p.m., and Aug. 4, 3 p.m. “Layag” will ...

MANILA, Philippines—Dozens of dirt-poor children in a mangrove village in Zamboanga City no longer have to swim to school while straining to hold their books above the water. A blogger who learned how ...

A blogger who learned how Layag-layag village children struggled to reach school raised money through Facebook to provide boats to the village. A donated motorboat funded by those efforts carried the ...