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The I CAN team aims to bring simple and cost-efficient solutions and innovations to health, livelihood, education, and the environment within communities through inter-sectoral participation and inter-community development. We started in 2011 when our lead founder Dr. John Michael Dellaliarte proposed a research on the use of soda cans to disinfect contaminated water in Poblacion,…

It has been a couple of days since the “Kaligtasan Mo, Gihuna-Huna Ko” started, an initiative of the youth volunteers concerning the safety and health of everyone amid the lockdown in Butuan City.  With the implementation of Local Community Quarantine to Enhanced Community Quarantine in the city, the members of the initiative still manage to…

“Write stories that seek to inspire people to take action.” This has been my mantra as a citizen journalist. Since the enhanced community quarantine started, I spent my time on social media looking for news. I pitched inspiring stories of the locals doing their own way to help the community. While I was keeping myself…

Whenever I’m asked what I will be doing after the quarantine, who I will be meeting and catching-up with, where my first destination will be when I get outside of the comforts of my own home, it makes me pause for a moment. I compose myself and try not to burst with overwhelming words brought…