LEADERS who put others before themselves are needed amid “a surplus of anger and frustration” in these changing times, Vice President Leni Robredo said, as she lauded six new laureates of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards. The Vice President, who noted that “progress that leaves people behind is not real progress,” underscored the importance of transformative leadership. Robredo said this was especially necessary in these trying times, as a “dangerous narrative” threatens democracy and freedoms in various parts of the world. People left behind by progress seem to be drowning in frustration and anger because of the neglect that those in power had shown to those who were left behind... “I, too, believe, that more attention could have been given to the last, the least and the loss.

Source: The Standard September 01, 2017 15:56 UTC