Tag: Binangonan
Help Rebuild Talim Island’s St. Francis Church
Last year I got to know the people of Talim Island, specifically Barangay Habagatan. Their main source of livelihood is fishing, but there is a lack of facilities such as markets, a hospital, or even a medical center in the island. For emergencies and other modern supplies, they have to take a 30-minute boat ride […]
Talim Island: More Than Just a Speck in the Water
I usually research on the basics of the place I’m visiting before getting there, but when my Tita Fe and her husband, Tito Apin, invited me to visit his hometown in Talim Island, I decided to leave everything up to them. Without any information other than Mt. Tagapo, I found myself immersing in this little-known island […]