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...photovoltaic solar panels at the school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, later this week. “With any luck...some kids could learn how they work and end up working with photovoltaic cells in the future,” said Jason Taylor, a Peabody School parent who spoke during the public comment segment of the meeting. City Councilor Sam Seidel, who requested in September that Healy look into the grants, said he had hoped that the city’s affordable housing projects would be eligible. But the projects are privately-owned, and only city-owned...
...What people don't know is what the Philippines will look like when the millions of children these workers are leaving behind grow up. A UNICEF-commissioned study estimates that roughly one in four kids - about 9 million children nationwide - have at least one parent working abroad. More and more, that means a mother living halfway around the world for 10 or 15 years at a time. The government rightly applauds "Overseas Filipino Workers," or OFWs as they are commonly called in the country, as heroes for the sacrifices they make for their families. But while children whose mothers...
...Children with homes to call their own are also struggling. According to a new UNICEF study, Filipino teenagers with one or both parents abroad, though they do better in school and have more allowance money, said they felt they were worse off - particularly when it came to their future - than peers with both parents living at home. Past studies have also shown that children with mothers abroad report feeling less happy than those with fathers abroad. "One parent can a do good job, but that doesn't happen a lot," says Dr. Esperanza A. Icasas-Cabral, the Secretary...
...Dumplings.” “I believe with all my heart in the work that HCC is doing. They give us a huge gift, and I’m here to give back by supporting them,” said Maria S. Kulsick, an adoptive parent and third-year participant in the Dumplings program. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon showed an excerpt from his 2006 Oscar winning documentary “The Blood of Yingzhou District” at the dinner. The film, co-produced by Ruby Yang of the Chang Ai Media project, depicts the ostracism...
...crisscrossing paths in Harvard Yard hardly serve as mock runways for College students, who tend to be more concerned with problem sets and theses than the latest collections from Paris and Milan. Timothy M. Parent ’09 hopes to change this through Project East, a fashion show featuring Asian and Asian-American designers now in its second year. Recognizing a gap in his college experience, Parent took the initiative to bring high fashion to Harvard, satisfying his own interests while also providing valuable opportunities for Asian designers and his fellow students. Parent has always had a love...