Northern Samar is a province on the margins, not just geographically but also (and most significantly) economically.
It’s in the government’s Category 2 provinces (the 10 poorest in terms of population) in urgent need of intervention. The latest economic plan says its opportunities for development are “limited.”
How does one surmount such label? Perhaps it starts with a book, meticulously researched, part-history and part-travel guide, reintroducing the province of Northern Samar to the rest of the Philippines and even the Nortehanons themselves.
For author Mio Gálit de la Cruz, “Northern Samar: Our Home” (214 pp., Write It Right Editorial & Publishing) is his homecoming, having moved to Metro Manila along with many other families years ago in search of greater opportunities and, yes, to surmount the province’s seemingly limited economic frontiers.
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