I-Witness wins 2011 Lasallian Scholarum Award

MANILA, Philippines - Pasan-Pasan, the eye-opening I-Witness documentary which aired June of last year, brought home the award for Outstanding Televised Feature on Youth and Education during the recent The Lasallian Scholarum Awards 2011. 

The story, which also hopes to change the way people define the word “burden,” is from I-Witness host Sandra Aguinaldo and her team which was honored, in the only broadcast media category, for its outstanding televised feature story on Filipino youth and education issues.

Pasan-Pasan tells the story of brothers Pablito and Jason. Pablito is 18 years old. Yet he cannot walk, eat, or bathe alone. His bones are too brittle; in fact, he’s had fractures all over his body. But whatever pain his broken bones may bring is soothed by the loyalty of his No. 1 champion — his brother Jason. Every day, Jason lifts Pablito on his back to take him to a school for persons with disabilities.

The Lasallian Scholarum Awards is an annual recognition program for outstanding media coverage of Filipino youth and education issues. It is sponsored by the Office for Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) of De La Salle University.

This is Aguinaldo’s second The Lasallian Scholarum Award, having won in 2008, in the same category, for the I-Witness documentary Iskul ko, No. 1.