AN 11-year-old Filipino student’s thoughts on how music can touch lives won for her the third prize in the Universal Postal Union’s 43rd International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People.

Postmaster General Josefina dela Cruz said UPU, a specialized agency of the United Nations, has announced that Ashley Nicole Abalos from the PAREF- Woodrose School in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila) won the bronze medal in the contest, where an estimated 1.5 million young people took part.

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