SWIMMING MA. Elizabeth Salvacion (standing, left) of brgy Datu Karon, Lebak, Sultan Kudarat requests Sec. Jesus Dureza, Mindanao Development Authority chair and ACT for Peace Programme national programme director, for a boat as she brings her children to school by swimming during a peace dialogue at Tran Elementary School in Lebak last July 16. (ACT for Peace)

MOTHERS TALK. Women confer with each other during a peace dialogue at Tran Elementary School in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat last July 16. (ACT for Peace)

INCOME FOR OSYs. Out-of-school youth are now earning from the operation of the Palandok Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, Fisheries and Agriculture Multi-Purpose Cooperative that produces bottled sardines in Palandok, Leon Postigo in Zamboanga del Norte. Palandok is among the peace and development communities in Mindanao that are being assisted by the GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme in their community economic development projects. (ACT for Peace)

WELCOME TO MY HOME. Marilou Bantugoy (right) welcomes Gov. Mohammad Khalid Dimaporo (left) and Sec. Jesus Dureza (2nd from left), national programme director of the GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme to her home, one of the 40 core shelter units constructed for internally-displaced persons in Brgy Pantar, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. The core shelters are among the assistance provided by the Programme’s Strengthening Response to Internal Displacement in Mindanao (StRIDe-Mindanao) Project for the early recovery of barangay Pantar that was affected by the armed conflict in 2008. (ACT for Peace)

PARTNERSHIP FOR EARLY RECOVERY. Sec. Jesus Dureza (left), national programme director of the GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme, Gov. Mohammad Khalid Dimaporo (center) and Nasser D. Manalao, chair of Lanao del Norte Peace and Development Advocates Alliance, sign a partnership agreement on the implementation of ‘Early Recovery’ projects in barangays Durianon and Lemoncret, Magsaysay in Lanao del Norte. The two barangays are among the six villages affected by the 2008 armed conflict in Lanao del Norte being assisted by the ACT for Peace Programme in rebuilding their communities. (ACT for Peace)

WHAT DO YOU HAVE THERE, BUDDY? A pupil checks on the school bag of his classmate who is among the 600 schoolchildren in six barangays in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte provided with school supplies by the Strengthening Response to Internal Displacement in Mindanao (StRIDe-Mindanao) Project of the GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme. Brgy Pantar in Kolambugan is one of the 30 conflict-affected barangays assisted by StRIDe-Mindanao in their early recovery and rehabilitation. (ACT for Peace)