Thank you!

BatanesOnline.com would like to publicly thank the following individuals and organizations for their unselfish support in order for us to bring this online service a reality to the Ivatan Community.

The Management and Staff of the Ivatan Foundation for Development Communication, Inc. which publishes the Bandillo Batanes. The editorial staff of the Bandillo Batanes are:
German Caccam - Editor-in-Chief
Andres Elica - Associate Editor
Demetrius Narag - Managing Editor
Juliet Cataluña - Provincial Bureau Chief
Chit Lajauco - Editorial Consultant
Eli Cataluña, Celerina Navarro, Wilbur Galarion, Pilar Mata, Roland Cabitac, Noli Gabilo - Editorial Board

Mrs. Necitas Alconis and the whole staff of Philippine Information Office, Batanes for their regular news update.

Organizers of the 217th Batanes Day Anniversary for the beautiful collection of feature and news articles.

Boyboy Castro for the pictures on the damages of the July 16 earthquake

Roland Cabitac for sharing his collection of YICA publications during the early 80's.

Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, INQ7, ABS-CBN, Yahoo, CNN, and BBC News for the photos/news materials used in the photo archive of the LIA crash on November 11, 2002.

All Ivatans and non-Ivatans who contributed articles, Batanes/Ivatan pictures, offered their free services, financial support to start this project and to all those who believed that in starting and keeping this project we will be able to keep the Ivatan Community in touch with each other.


DIOS MAMAJES!