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Comelec uses village polls to test accessibility law
Comelec established only two accessible polling places (APPs) in the 2013 midterm elections. Cebu, which has one of the highest number PWD voters did not have a single APP last May 13. File photo by...
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Only 10 PWDs to vote in special polling places
A person with disability updates his voter’s information at a special registration for the May midterm polls in Rizal. (Photo by MARIO IGNACIO IV) By DARLENE CAY OVER 54 million Filipinos will be...
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Redefining poll ‘accessibility’ in Maguindanao
Precincts located on Bongo Island in Parang, Maguindanao are among the most inaccessible in Maguindanao. It takes three hours by motorboat ride from Cotabato City. During low tide, residents are...
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Senior citizens, PWDs laud special voting in GenSan
The accessible polling place in SM City General Santos. Text and photos by BONG S. SARMIENTO, MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY—In less than five minutes after approaching the Board of Election Tellers...
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Senior citizens prefer mall to regular precinct—even if they had to climb stairs
Senior citizens exiting the mall. Voters in SM Manila, supposedly an accessible polling place, had to climb the stairs to vote. (Photo by DEXTER CABALZA) By DEXTER CABALZA Ligaya Patañaga, 81, and her...
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PWDs vote for change
Teresita Tuazon, a 60-year-old with post-polio syndrome, made sure she went out to vote today. Text and photos by HOMER TEODORO SAN VICENTE, Tarlac City — Persons with disabilities here found it...
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Special polling place so near, yet so far for PWDs
By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ LIGAYA Patañaga, 81, was the first voter to experience the relative comfort of voting at the accessible polling place (APP) at SM Manila for the barangay elections. Determined to...
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Hassle-free voting for senior citizens in Cebu APP
By CARLO LORENCIANA and MECHELLE FLORITA CEBU CITY—Unlike their experience in previous elections, husband and wife Manuel and Julita Fontanar, both 70, described this year’s voting as “hassle-free”....
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Senior citizens, PWD couple vote in Lipa City APP
Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV LIPA CITY, Batangas—Reymundo Chica and his wife Melanie joined millions of Filipinos as they elected their referred bets in Monday’s barangay elections. With their two...
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Senior citizens, voters with disabilities stars for a day
By VERA Files SENIOR citizens and persons with disabilities became the darlings of the press when they cast their ballots for the first time in SM malls on Monday. In Batangas, the media fussed over...
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National database of persons with disabilities in the works
Pimentel explains bill that would fund PDAOs By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ FOR nearly 20 years, government agencies have tried to come up with a consolidated list of Filipinos with disabilities, but to no...
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A walk to remember with a special brother
By ISAIAH MARU C. DEOGRACIAS I am no special kid, but I joined the Angels’ Walk for Autism again last Sunday as I do every year. It’s the 18th year of kicking off the Autism Awareness Week with a walk...
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Book chronicles efforts for PWD-friendly polls
Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Bill Tweddell with members of the PWD community. Photo by LITTLE WING LUNA. By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ FOLLOWING the experience of persons with disabilities (PWDs)...
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Jean Gonzales: Magiting’s mother, ‘magiting’ mother
Jean Gonzales speaks before journalists about her experiences as a mother to a person with disability. File photo by MARIO IGNACIO IV By DARLENE CAY FOR persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their...
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Comelec holds registration for Manila PWDs
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be holding a satellite registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens of Manila on Sunday, June 1. To be held at the Central Section...
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Most schools used as voting precincts not PWD-friendly, audit shows
An express lane for PWDs in Cordova Central School in Cebu during the 2013 midterm elections. (File photo by MARIO IGNACIO IV) By VINCE NONATO IT’S not so much how the classrooms are built but how...
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Lack of info, bad weather blamed for low turnout in PWD voter registration
Sign language interpreters in Baguio. Photo by OFELIA EMPIAN IN various offices of the Commission on Elections nationwide, the same story played out as the country marked Sunday the National...
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Problems abound in implementation of PWD benefits
LGBT community remembers those who died of HIV By PATRICK KING PASCUAL “DENVER” (not his real name) is HIV-positive. He has been an outpatient at one of the HIV/AIDS treatment hubs in Manila for seven...
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3 ways to live normal and productive life even with lupus
By MARILYN MANA-AY ROBLES They are persons with lupus. ROCHELLE, a young lupus patient of 8 years, received a text message from the president of the Lupus Foundation reminding her of their regular 1st...
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A PWD in love in ‘The Trial’
By PABLO A. TARIMAN John Lloyd Cruz FOR a change, actor John Lloyd Cruz departs from his ‘kilig’ movies to offer something different for Filipino moviegoers. He figures in a new Chito Roño film called...
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