Brot für die Welt’s program manager for the Philippines Jonna Lena Raphaela Seemann visited the abaca farmers in the hinterland of sitio Salvador of barangay Rogongon, some 40.4 kilometers far…

Continue ReadingBRoT program manager in PH visits abaca farmers in Iligan; learn farmers dev’t

BRoT program manager in PH visits abaca farmers in Iligan; learn farmers dev’t

Fifty-nine engineering students enrolled in engineering planning and design courses will conduct the "feasibility and planning, detailed engineering design, program of works and budget" for ECOWEB’s development sites with the…

Continue Reading59 engineering students-interns from MSU-IIT CET conduct ocular surveys in Higaonon, Subanen ancestral domains

59 engineering students-interns from MSU-IIT CET conduct ocular surveys in Higaonon, Subanen ancestral domains

Typhoon Paeng left Philippines with BARMM, three provinces, 4 cities and municipalities under the state of calamity1 after having six landfalls across Virac, Catanduanes; Caramoan, Camarines Sur; and Buenavista, Quezon.…

Continue ReadingSituation Analysis and Needs Assessment Report No. 3

Situation Analysis and Needs Assessment Report No. 3

Abaca fibers hang inside the learning facility of Man-ai Integrated Agroforestry Cooperative which is being dried up and readied for classification and bundling. Inside a dimly lit space, the names…

Continue ReadingFarmers’ cooperative in Man-ai advances toward gender-sensitive abaca enterprise and agro-forestry development

Farmers’ cooperative in Man-ai advances toward gender-sensitive abaca enterprise and agro-forestry development

“How did the abaca plantation and its social enterprise change us?   It changed me and my companions dramatically. We used to be full of vices; deficient in knowledge on farming;…

Continue ReadingAbaca plantation and its social enterprise recover our sense of self-respect, says Higaonon farmer 

Abaca plantation and its social enterprise recover our sense of self-respect, says Higaonon farmer 

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Atoyay, Socorro, Surigao del Norte They are not even neighbors. They don't belong to the same barangay, although all of them…

Continue ReadingThe Women of Atoyay

The Women of Atoyay