High Pinay

Pinoy and Pinay speak high for Busby SEO Challenge!

High Pinay is always in support for the success of all Filipino efforts in all good endeavors.

That’s why we are eager to see  the outcome of the Busby SEO Challenge where in we are hoping and praying that Filipino could also be among the winner.

In more than 500 contestants all over the world, it is already an achievement to see two Filipino bloggers on the Top Ten… But it would be much better to see them win the Busby SEO Challenge

Aim High  Busby SEO Challenge!

Pinay’s Pride

Last year, Cherry Pie Picache won her first Durban International Film Festival Best Actress award in her role as a lesbian tricycle driver in Caleldo.

This year Ms. Picache, a Pinay Actress impressed foreigners again for the 2^nd time around in her much commended portrayal as a woman who is temporarily taking care of children about to be adopted in the film Foster Child.

Durban IFF is yearly done in South Africa with more than 20 films competing from all over the world.

 

Several years ago, I was one of those many people who went to Payatas to help when the awful Payatas “garbage-slide” tragedy happened, we consoled the survivors  as they try to understand why their love ones had to perish in that heartrending disaster that saw hundreds of women, men and children buried alive under a mountain of trash.

That is why I can’t help but feel happy, when I heard the news concerning the success of the Rags2Riches who was able to win in the US Enterprise Award, and learned that the Women of Payatas where the people behind the production.

Their story is really inspiring, they would collect scrap cloth from the garbage dump in payatas, weave them into rugs, before they would sell it to some unscrupulous middlemen who would earn at least P25 while these women would just earn P1 per rug. Thanks to some good hearted businessmen who formed the Rag2Riches who helped them to sell their products into a much better market like bazaar and malls, they where able to earn better income. And when Rajo Laurel joined the team, it became more exciting because theirs rugs were transformed into bag, purse and even wine holders.

From their meagre income of P10 a day, their income soared to at least P1,000 a week. Such an encouraging story of Pinay Achievements. It is just our wish that their business would continue to flourish. 

Aim High Pinay of Payatas!

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Rag2Riches wins US Award

High Pinay is supposed to start as a tribute to all Pinay Achievers out there, but for several days now, I am still searching for my first Pinay Achiever. Of course, many Pinays are currently making us all proud in all different categories.

But I wanted to start with someone special, someone who could inspire bloggers like me. Then yesterday, while browsing Jehzlau’s Blogroll, out of the many names there, I have chosen to open the Filipina Mother’s Recovery Notes, who happens to be the proud mother of The First Filipina Blogger.

So now, may I introduce to you Ms. Lauren Dado….

The First Filipina Blogger

Lauren Dado at 10

Lauren Dado is the original blogger in the Philippines, she started her blog in December 1996 and at that time, would you imagine, she is just 10 years old. Her inspiration is a 14 year old British girl named Hayley who at that time is already blogging, and that gave her the idea to start her own blog. Although Lauren humbly said that she isn’t the one who started the Blogging Craze in the Philippines .

Lauren Dado

“In 1996, a blog was called an online journal. It pretty much had the same functions as today’s blogs, except there weren’t any content management systems such as what’s being offered today by Blogger or LiveJournal. The blogs then were updated almost everyday, and entries were written in a diary format. I can’t really remember much of the content except that people never really wrote one-liners, they all had long, descriptive entries” Lauren points out.

Lauren is now a graduate from Ateneo de Manila with a degree of AB Social Sciences. She is now 22 years old and is now blogging at nimrodel.net. Her proud mom is Noemi Lardizabal-Dado who is also a maintaining some inspirational blogs.

Noemi Dado