Calling all Health Action Information Network former staff, trainors, training participants, volunteers, supporters and friends!

It is with great pride and joy that HAIN will be celebrating its 25th Year Anniversary this 2010. It has been a very fruitful and exciting 25 Years of Empowering Communities through Health Information which would not have been made possible, without the indispensable and key contributions of focal personalities like you.

HAIN proudly invites you to a Night of Friendship and Giving as it celebrates its 25 years of Serving Communities through Health Information. This benefit dinner will be held at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, Diliman, Quezon City on May 21, 2010 at 6:00pm onwards.

Interested parties are requested to please contact Nilda de Vera or Dr. Delen Dela Paz at (63-2) 952.6409 or 952.6312 or send an email to hain@hain.org and to nildevera@yahoo.com

The Faces of Women

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, the continuing ordeal of the 43 illegally arrested and detained health workers highlights the plight of Filipino women at the hands of a fascist government. It reveals the faces of women in conflict and in struggle for the genuine liberation of this nation.

On one hand, there are the 26 women detainees, health workers whose only crime is to go beyond just caring enough to cure. They are the symbols of true empowerment: unschooled but not uneducated, marginalized but at the frontlines of healthcare, and poor but with the wealth of heart and sacrifice.

These women, and the men who are with them in their incarcerated lives, have the power rarely afforded today - power drawn from the respect and recognition given by their people. That they are subjected to abuse and humiliation in order to break them is testament not only to the integrity of their empowerment but also to the pathetic feeble-mindedness of their captors.