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A SIMPLE conversation can be life changing. Just having someone to listen to you, someone outside of your family circle, can give you a different perspective. What you say—your dreams, fears, feelings—is laid on someone else’s ears, with no biases, no judgments.
The Family Service Agency of San Mateo County, a nonprofit that provides resources to children, families and older adults in need, is committed to helping out to senior citizens through their Senior Peer Counseling Program. The program has been in existence for 20 years, and is determined to reach out to its underserved population.
FILIPINO film afficionados should brace themselves. The film festival which introduced us to a group of students having the time of their lives in Barcelona in The Spanish Apartment and a feuding couple in search of their true love in the upper-class suburbs in Sweden in Adam and Eva, took us to the drug-infested streets of Edinburgh, Scotland in Trainspotting and the shoddy barges in Glasgow, Scotland in Young Adam and gave us a glimpse of the harsh realities of everyday life in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia in Kolja and senseless killings in Rwanda in Shooting Dogs is now on its 12th year. 
