What it means to have a voice through my community’s stories

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What it means to have a voice through my community’s stories

Growing up in Llorente, Eastern Samar, I rarely saw my hometown mentioned on TV — except when a storm was about to hit. To the rest of the world, it was just another dot on the map, often overlooked and unheard. But I wanted to change that.  When I was accepted into the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship as one of the six campus journalist fellows for its 2024 cycle, I was determined to write stories that projected me as a writer and, more importa…