Topic: Indigenous Peoples
The brave non-violence of the Subaanen people
July 6, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Some thousands of indigenous people all over the Philippines, especially in Mindanao, especially the Subaanen people, on the Zamboanga Peninsula have struggle for years to stop mining corporations from moving in to explore and mine the mountains and hills. They are victims of corrupt government officials and even judges who are captivated by the vested [...]
Read More...Fair Trade – Protecting Human Rights
May 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Dublin, Ireland – Juanito Hacinto is a poor man in Bataan, Philippines. He is a member of the Aeta indigenous people. He sat with his wife Nita, and their three children under a mango tree to hear our message that the Preda Fair Trade organisation, Profairtrade, will pay 100% higher for their mango fruit so [...]
Read More...Earth Day with the Indigenous People
April 25, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
How I admire the resilience and survival skills of the rural impoverished Filipino. It’s something to be celebrated and admired but the fact that millions of rural poor, especially many of the indigenous people, live at subsistence level is a cause for great concern, especially…
Read More...How We Help End Hunger
March 23, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Hiking through the Zambales hills visiting the villages of the Aeta indigenous people is an exhilarating and yet saddening experience. I have been thinking about my recent visits to the villages of the aboriginal people that first settled the Philippine islands and survived…
Read More...THE MANGOS THAT SAVED A VILLAGE
March 16, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
As I walked the last few meters with a medical team organized by the Preda Fair Trade Development Foundation to the hillside village, high in the Zambales Mountains, I was not greeted with the usual rush of excited smiling children curious at the arrival of visitors from the lowland. The Preda team entered a village [...]
Read More...Poor people helping the poor make a Eco-village
March 12, 2012 · By Emmanuel Drewery
In Sito Nato, San Juan district, Botolan, Zambales a group of refugees whose villages was washed away by the floods of the typhoons are forming a self- sustainable community after living in a refugee camp for almost three years.
Read More...Network of Civil Society Organizations bare 6-point policy considerations for PNoy’s Executive Order on Mining
March 6, 2012 · , Philippine Misereor Partnership Press Release
“Promulgate a new mining policy now”. This was the call made by the Philippine Misereor Partnership at the close of its 3 day General Assembly…
Read More...PAKISAMA Statement Condemning the Assassination of Another PAKISAMA Leader, Florita “Nang Flor” Caya
April 29, 2011 · , soc banzuela
The Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) condemns in strongest possible terms the April 27 dastardly assassination of Florita “Nang Flor” Caya (58), General Manager of a local indigenous peoples’ organization (UTCEL) and Vice-President of a national rural peasant women organization (LAKAMBINI) affiliated to PAKISAMA Confederation. According to police autopsy/investigation, at 7 PM of [...]
Read More...The Values We Live For
January 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
While you might believe that the world is mired in a hopeless, all powerful culture of greed and selfish pleasure, take heart and inspiration from the thousands of people who risk their lives daily in the unselfish and heroic service of the oppressed and endangered people of the developing world. Last week Columban Missionaries Father [...]
Read More...Preda Newsletter July 2006
July 3, 2006 ·
Four of the boys at Preda who finished the Alternative Learning System program of the Department of education proudly display their certificates As I write this, the Philippines is being battered by the seasonal typhoon. The raging winds and torrential downpours of rain spread floods, electric power failure, traffic disruption and the cancellation of school [...]
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