Tonette Orejas

Tonette Orejas

Tonette Orejas has been writing for the Philippine Daily Inquirer since 1997. She garnered the first local journalist award of the Society of Publishers in Asia in 2004. Her special reports on agrarian reform, Mount Pinatubo rehabilitation and coping by Indigenous Aeta communities have been cited by the Catholic Mass Media Awards and other organizations. Her special reports on housing corruption led to jail time for a private developer while stories on the publication of fake notices for public works led to the ouster of an official and resulted in a shift to online bidding for projects. She is currently the chair of the Pampanga Press Club and a member of the multisectoral governance council of the Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital of the Department of Health in the Central Luzon region.

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Salvatorian Sr. Cyrel Peralta is the book reading program and advocacy coordinator for the Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children program in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The program's mobile library for book reading on the Gospel and children's rights has toured communities regularly since it began in 2004. (Courtesy of Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children)

Philippine Salvatorians' pioneering program protects children from abuse

Child advocates, former victims and even entire families who serve as advocates vouch for the difference the parish-based Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children has made in the lives of children, teens and adults.