Co-sponsorship Speech of Senator Legarda Classroom-Building Acceleration Program (CAP) Act

Mr. President, distinguished colleagues:

I hesitate to sound repetitive, yet the truth bears repeating: from my first term in 1998 until today, the classroom shortage has persisted as one of the most stubborn obstacles in our public education system. Year after year, administration after administration, this deficit has weighed heavily on our learners and teachers. And today, the DepEd estimates the gap at 147,347 classrooms nationwide.

I rise to co-sponsor the proposed Classroom-Building Acceleration Program Act, a measure that seeks to address […]

Introduction of Senator Loren Legarda to H.E. Ban Ki-moon | Asian Forum on Enterprise for Society

Honorable guests, distinguished colleagues, friends, ladies, and gentlemen. It is my profound honor and privilege to introduce a visionary leader whose path has so often intersected with the aspirations of the Filipino people.

His tenure at the United Nations, from 2007 to 2016, was marked by a relentless pursuit of peace, a deep commitment to sustainable development, and a passion for uplifting the world’s most vulnerable. Under his leadership, he mobilized world leaders to confront the most pressing challenges of our […]

Keynote Address Senator Loren Legarda Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue 2025: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Your Excellency, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; distinguished colleagues from the Ban Ki-moon Foundation, Stanford APARC, the UP Asian Center, our partner institutions, and dear friends—good day.

It is my honor to host this luncheon and to welcome you all to Manila for this Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue. When Secretary-General Ban visited the Senate last year, I had the joy of welcoming him and Madame Yoo to my home. Over laing, bagnet, tinolang manok, and halo-halo, we were reminded that the best policy conversations […]

KEYNOTE SPEECH OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA OPENING OF THE NATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR (NACF) 2025 October 24, 2025 | Megatrade Halls, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City

Thank you very much, Ms. Gretchen Ho.

Bumabati po ako sa inyong lahat ngayong hapong ito. First of all, our friends, distinguished members of the Diplomatic Corps, thank you for taking time out this afternoon to join us.

Tell your other colleagues, it’s not just today, it’s opened yesterday until the 29th and we have plans of having a permanent, not just showroom, but a permanent store in the different regions of the country, so that all our MSMEs will have their […]

Message of Senator Loren Legarda | Launch of the Rizal Ethnographic Objects in a Digital Exhibition |17 October 2025

Twelve years ago, in 2013, I was shown a remarkable collection of Filipino textiles and ethnographic objects housed in the Berlin Ethnological Museum—a Bagobo blouse, a Manobo jacket, a Mandaya abaca baby carrier, a Blaan wrap-around skirt, to name a few.

Dr. Roland Platz, the museum’s curator for South and Southeast Asia, explained that these were among the items Dr. José Rizal had donated to his friends, Dr. Adolf Bastian and Dr. Rudolf Virchow. Seeing them for the first time, I […]