Culture of kindness fires up optimistic children

Life is not a walk in the park. Yet, how each one approaches anything and everything is the key. It starts at each one's home where parents use the key.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Let's take it from Stephanie Jean P. De Guzman (9), Celine Madison Matondo (IO), Angela Jewel Omega (IO), Rhoven Azriel V. Vinuya (II), Leianna Samara C. Julaton (IO), Chloe T. Tagle (10), Raphaella Grey R. Morata (II), Austineth Jaustine L. Burgos (12), Alexandria Melisse C. Apolinario (9), and Zireh Athena G. Esquivel (10) - collectively known as the BKIDZZZ that represented the UAE in the Junior Category of the "World Supremacy Battlegrounds 2025" at The Space of the Dubai Investment Park.

Unperturbed that the gold got snapped by their fellow Filipinos, the Gboyz Juniors that represented their homeland. That the three-day competition, from July IO to 13, let them go through the zigzag of emotions against other preteens from Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, and South Africa. These third culture kids, with five still in their nappies upon arrival in either Abu Dhabi or Dubai, as the rest were born-and-raised in the UAE, demonstrate that this worrisome world, where strife and struggle are definitely components, still has the fighting chance to become a better world.