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    Ronnel Del Rio Reflection Paper

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    Ronnel Del Rio is a blind Filipino radio journalist and advocate for persons with disabilities (PWD) in the Philippines. He overcame significant hardships in his education and career due to his blindness, including having to massage patients daily to fund his studies. Despite his challenges, he became the first blind person in the Philippines to earn a master's degree. Mr. Del Rio uses his media platform to give voice to PWD issues and has held several leadership roles advocating for PWD rights. He credits his success and resilience to his faith in God.

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    Ronnel Del Rio is a blind Filipino radio journalist and advocate for persons with disabilities (PWD) in the Philippines. He overcame significant hardships in his education and career due to his blindness, including having to massage patients daily to fund his studies. Despite his challenges, he became the first blind person in the Philippines to earn a master's degree. Mr. Del Rio uses his media platform to give voice to PWD issues and has held several leadership roles advocating for PWD rights. He credits his success and resilience to his faith in God.

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    Ronnel Del Rio is a blind Filipino radio journalist and advocate for persons with disabilities (PWD) in the Philippines. He overcame significant hardships in his education and career due to his blindness, including having to massage patients daily to fund his studies. Despite his challenges, he became the first blind person in the Philippines to earn a master's degree. Mr. Del Rio uses his media platform to give voice to PWD issues and has held several leadership roles advocating for PWD rights. He credits his success and resilience to his faith in God.

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    Ronnel Del Rio is a blind Filipino radio journalist and advocate for persons with disabilities (PWD) in the Philippines. He overcame significant hardships in his education and career due to his blindness, including having to massage patients daily to fund his studies. Despite his challenges, he became the first blind person in the Philippines to earn a master's degree. Mr. Del Rio uses his media platform to give voice to PWD issues and has held several leadership roles advocating for PWD rights. He credits his success and resilience to his faith in God.

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    (Reflection Paper)

    Ronnel Del Rio


    I’ve lived an ordinary life in this world, it’s
    challenging enough to be born as a normal person
    but being born without senses is much more difficult.
    PWD is a person with disability and has a physical or
    mental illness that severely restricts one or more
    important daily activities.When one is completely
    capable of carrying out daily tasks, it is difficult to
    comprehend the problems of persons with
    impairments. These people's backgrounds might be
    detrimental. Their successful and complete engagement in society on an equal footing
    with the others has caused them to be mistreated and even ignored by the general
    population.

    Mr. Ronnel Del Rio is one of the examples of PWD, he makes sure that he lives
    his life not to be hindered by his disability but to use it and his voice to the unheard
    PWDs in the Philippines that’s pleading for help. He is a radio journalist who rose to
    prominence in 1996 with his radio program "Good Morning Southern Luzon." He is blind
    as well. He tackled national problems affecting PWDs in the Philippines. Mr. Del Rio had
    hurdles as a student in elementary, high school, and college before achieving that
    position.He had to massage at least two patients every day in order to graduate and
    support himself. Despite receiving a scholarship, he had to work and study at the same
    time in order to cover the costs of attending school. He is a courageous person who
    faced hardships in his life and is now an example to the PWD community. Mr. Del Rio
    was also the first blind person in the Philippines to receive a Master's degree, having
    studied Management Technology at De La Salle University in 2003.

    Mr. Del Rio is the president of the Philippine Chamber of Massage Industry for
    the Visually Impaired, a board member of the Philippine Mental Health Association, the
    president of the Federation of Disabled Persons in Lipa, and the chief executive officer
    of Punlaka, a PWD advocacy group based in Region IV. He also works for the Batangas
    government as a Housing and Homesite Regulatory Affairs Officer. He created the Viable
    Socialized Resettlement Program, which identified vacant lands in the Province of
    Batangas with the goal of transforming them into a home project for the
    underprivileged.

    Del Rio made his radio debut with a public service show named "Tipanan sa
    DZRB" (Rendezvous in DZRB). In October 1994, it made its debut on Radio Balisong DZRB
    531. Then, in 2005, he bucked expectations by venturing into print media. Del Rio
    continues to write as a regular writer for Sun Star People's Courier Batangas with the
    assistance of his personal assistant, Maricel Manalo. Del Rio, who celebrated his 22nd
    year in the media this year, didn't just talk about social concerns on his radio show and
    in his column. He also utilized the media as a forum to express the concerns of the
    voiceless and to publicize issues concerning society's nameless.He persuaded former
    Batangas Congressman, now Senator, Ralph Recto to grant government funds for the
    renovation of the provincial school for Special Education (SpEd) pupils at one point,
    notably in 1995.

    Mr. Ronnel is now considering pursuing a doctorate after being recognized as the
    first blind Filipino to acquire a graduate degree. He has four children, the eldest of
    whom graduated with honors from the University of the Philippines. Del Rio believes in
    God. "But most of all, God inspires me," he remarked. If God had not intervened in my
    life, I would have been completely destroyed by now. I won't be able to do anything or
    get anywhere without His help. We make plans, but the Lord makes the final decision."

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