VIA Times – April 2020 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

Chicago, 16 April 2020 – The Filipino Community in the Midwest – through accredited organizations, restaurants and individuals – has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with an outpouring of the Bayanihan spirit as manifested in various projects and acts of ...

By: Elaine Lehman   I am writing my column in isolation. I do not mind. I am accustomed to aloneness. I spend much time researching how to help our communities attain much-needed services and coalescence – how our FACC, as mindful ...

By: Jan Paul C. Ferrer   According to the most recent statistics from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, more than 43 million people have provided unpaid care to an adult or child in the last 12 months.1 These people ...

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   Your FaceBook request to share our thoughts with you Veronica, made me think long and hard about how I feel, what I think, and how I am coping with this life changing world health situation that ...

Impact of COVID-19 on AAPI Immigrants I want to reach out and offer the National Asian Pacifi c American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) as a resource should you be covering a topic on how the coronavirus/ COVID-19 is impacting Asian Americans and ...

With the blessing of our esteemed publisher Veronica Leighton, I would like to use my column just to send all of you in the frontlines of this devastating pandemic named the ‘Corona Virus”, gratitude welling from the heart, for choosing ...

By: Joe Mauricio   For the past four week, plunked down at home during social distancing or self-quarantien, it’s not just spouses or partners people are questioning—it’s the home itself. For those who are used to spending much of their ...

Doris Range Padsare an invention of Doris, a homemaker and a mother from Bochum, Germany. Realizing the need of a simple product for hassle free cleanliness, she came up with the idea of these multiple featured pads that are heat, ...

By: Nancy Abiera   Many years ago, I was stressed to the max and I was diagnosed with “Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome”. My immune system shut down but God miraculous healed me quickly. The following are the revelations of lessons I received ...

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   Just a few weeks ago, the term “social distancing” was unknown to many people. If the world was not collectively fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic, folks might even have guessed it meant temporarily abstaining from social ...