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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
 LAMFUGON, Lake Sebu – The voice of Datu Benito Blunto boomed across
this small, picturesque community as he described the colorful past of
the different tribes living harmoniously for decades in Lake Sebu.
Thanks to amplifiers perched on trunks of trees near the barangay
mini-gymnasium, located on top of a hill, where a peace forum was held.
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
 General Santos City celebrated the International Women's Day last March
8, 2007 with a festive mood. Multi-sectoral motorcades and the usual
rallies for the rights of women were on the wide streets in Gensan.
Decorations were up in the city's big venues to stage several
activities which ranged from singing contests, to folkdancing, to
staging beauty contests for senior citizens.
But in a quiet place behind a mall, Alma Celesthia Dumalag-Aguja and
Cecile Dioño, cultural worker and people organizer, opened the gates
of Family Country Home as provincial jeeps started to unload women and
children, garbed in their customary ethnic and rural attires. The
hall, suddenly, came to life as children, meeting for the first time,
started to group together and play. Kalimudan Culture and Arts Center,
Inc. together with GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme decided to celebrate
this particular women's day with difference and relevance.
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
 BANGAS, Hadji Panglima Tahil, Sulu – Forty-year-old Barangay Captain
Mohammad Basiri stands tall at the front of a medium-sized
wooden-hulled motorized boat as he gives directions to the boat
operator while negotiating through the waves going to Barangay Bangas
in Hadji Panglima Tahil, Sulu on a cloudy afternoon.
He has just come from a meeting with the Department of Education
officials in Jolo to make arrangements in improving the services at the
barangay elementary school.
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
 SIROMON ISLAND, Zamboanga City – Seventy-six-year-old Jalil Sagumayan’s
greatest dream is to go home and spend the remaining time of his life
with his family on Siromon Island.
“Ang gusto ko lang na makabalik kami dito at maging masaya gaya ng
dati (I just want that we can return here on the island and be happy as
a community like what we used to be),” says Sagumayan.
But it is not as simple as it sounds. Siromon is among the 11 islands,
off the eastern coast of Zamboanga City, which are considered by the
locals as ‘no man’s land’.
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