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Chelo Banal

Chelo Banal

Editor, Philippines Daily Inquirer

Chelo Banal-Formoso is the editor of the Learning section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She also runs the paper's Inquirer in Education (IIE) program, which makes available to teachers and students stories, activity guides, contests and other materials published in the newspaper, as well as workshops and seminars. With the help of the paper's marketing section, she initiated the InqSpot (more formally known as Inquirer Learning Corner), a program that makes it possible for corporations, groups and individuals donate newspaper copies to public schools so students and teachers may have access to daily news, opinions and other information, as well as use the newspaper as a classroom resource.

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