Download In his last public act before a year-long religious seclusion, activist priest Father Reyes has thrown his support behind Filipino postal workers.

On May 8 he kickstarted a charity run, where he acted as a postman delivering letters from the workers to Philipine President Aquino.

The letters protested the recent string of jobs cuts for people that have worked for company for decades.

Madonna Virola has the story from Manila.

Download In the Guiness Book of World Records, the smallest person comes from Nepal.

But it’s in the Philippines where some of the smallest people have big dreams.

They want to build a “Dwarf City” – a place of their own, where they won’t be discriminated against by the rest of the world.

They also plan to make this city a Philippines tourist attraction.

They call themselves the ‘little people’ – Madonna Virola meets them in a club in Manila.

Download Father Edwin Gariguez is famous for facing down multinational miners – and winning.

Now the Philippines priest has a global award to recognise his struggles.

He’s one of six winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States – the award for environmental heroes fighting at the grassroots.

Three years ago, Father Edwin led a hunger strike that turned the tide against a huge nickel mine on Mindoro island.

Madonna Virola talks to the prizewinning priest.

Download A small fashion company in Manila is doing its part to end the cycle of poverty in the Philippines one purse at a time.

Now in its fifth year, "Rags 2 Riches" is poised to make a profit using a formula of social mission, innovation and the necessary discipline of running a successful business.

Simone Orendain from Radio Australia has the report.