This is my Sunday’s column at Sun.Star Davao telling the story of young boys in the hinterland villages of Davao City…. and since this is a blogsite, then you get an extra. Photos of the little boys.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/opinion/2012/02/18/estremera-thats-just-way-it-206828

Jason as a participant to an art workshop my buddy Kublai and I held for children of Matigsalugs in 2009. Now 15, he will soon be married.

Roberto, 13, and cousin Alona, 9, are both in third grade, attending school in the next village five kilometers over hills and dales away; which they tackle by walking.