About me

My name is Leah, a mom to three beautiful children, a Master of Development Communication student at the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), an Overseas Filipino Worker in the United Arab Emirates. Juggling family, full time work and school has been a challenging, yet rewarding experience. Thanks to my supportive husband, my co-juggler!

My fountain of inspiration and motivation- Vic, Reign, Hail and Ash

What is Development Communication?

Why Development Communication?

The world has been trapped in a sticky web of problems. It seems hopeless to get out of this trap. It will only be hopeless if people stop trying to find solution.

I empower myself to make the little changes I am capable of. I am not aiming to restore world peace . Making a small group of people or even an idividual's stituation a little more comfortable will be an achievement.

I am looking forward to doing my part to empower the weak through communication.

Someday, Hail, Reign and Ash will be proud of their mom. By the way the background image of this website is an artwork of my daughter, Reign.

It's going to be a long journey, I'm sure that it's going to be a rewarding one.

Development is social change for the better. And change – be it individual or societal – almost always require communication. – Dr. Alexander G. Flor, University of the Philippinese Open University

“If you want development to be rooted in the human beings who have to become the agents of it as well as the beneficiaries, who will alone decide on the kind of development they can sustain after the foreign aid has gone away, then you have got to communicate with them, you have got to enable them to communicate with each other and back to the planners in the capital city. You have got to communicate the techniques that they need in order that they will decide on their own development. If you do not do that you will continue to have weak or failing development programmes. It’s as simple as that.” - Erskine Barton Childers, United Nations, UNICEF & UNDP programme called Development Support Communication Leader
“No innovation, however brilliantly designed and set down in a project Plan of Operations, becomes development until it has been communicated.” – Childers

Development Communication is the art and science of human communication applied to the speedy transformation of a country and the mass of its people from poverty to a dynamic state of economic growth that makes possible greater social equality and the larger fulfillment of the human potential.”- Nora C. Quebral, UPLB College of Development Communication

Development Communication is a communication with social conscience. – Late UPLB Chancellor Abelardo G. Samonte