Brewing change: This Baguio entrepreneur is giving Cordilleran farmers a leg up

BAGUIO, Philippines – After media giant ABS-CBN was forced to close down during the COVID-19 pandemic, Baguio-born Shaun Marrero found himself at a crossroads. 

His tech business, one of the many allied services that relied on the big network for revenues, was in dire straits. It came to the point that he and his wife were moved to tears in desperation.

“So, I decided to go to the mountains to talk to God – to ask: Why?” he said. To do that, Marrero went to the third highest mountain in Luzon...