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GABAY is a socio-civic organization of PAREF Woodrose School and the Narra Nueva Study Center which teaches catechism and other subjects like art, music, and English to less fortunate children in Manila as well as different parts of the Philippines through "Rurals" projects. 

For more on this Club, visit their website . 

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SUMMER 2012 is here! The various Study Centers have prepared exciting and worthwhile activities to bring out the best in you. Click here to see a bigger version.

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Featured Article

Looking Back: The EDSA Revolution
from Tanglaw blog

The nation celebrated the 26th anniversary of EDSA Revolution last February 25, 2012. In line with this, Tanglaw’s Enriching Talks on Culture (ETC) organized a documentary watching on the said event. The film, which ran for 1 hour, featured people who played a key role on that monumental day. Gringo Honasa, an Army Colonel in 1986 and the leader of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), contributed greatly in mounting public unrest to topple Marcos’ dictatorship. A Street Parliamentarian, Butz Aquino, led the August Twenty-One Movement. He is considered as one of the first societal figures who called on the people to go to the streets. Musician-activists were also part of the rallies, turning their concerts into protest actions. One of the most visible among there was Jim Paredes of Apo Hiking Society, the composer of the theme song for this nation-building event entitled “Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo”, which he wrote in just two minutes. When Radyo Veritas was closed down by the Marcos regime, it continued its secret broadcasting in the form of Rayo Bandido. It was June Keithley who turned to be the voice of this station and became very instrumental in mobilizing people to flock EDSA. Ed Lingao, a college student at the time of the revolution, recounted with clarity his experience of being one of the people in front of the tanks. Sr. Terry Burias and Sr. Ping Ocariza, both membes of Daughters of St. Paul, were in EDSA 1986 as a response to the call of the late Cardinal Sin to participate in showing Filipino solidarity. They were part of the thousands of people who did not only march EDSA but prayed on their knees in front of colossal tanks. With this historical event, a revolution without bloodshed, the whole world turned its gaze in the islands of the Philippines. Filipinos have shown that democracy can be attained if citizens would unite to reach its goal.