Topic: Indigenous People
Fair Trade and the Indigenous People
March 9, 2015 ·
The most recent discovery of a human fossil, a jawbone with four teeth in Ethiopia has amazed anthropologists because of its age. It strengthens the theory that the migration of the first humans out of Africa occurred about 1.5 million years ago. Some of them moved through Asia and across land bridges into South East […]
Read More...The story of the Christmas lights
January 13, 2015 ·
December 27, 2014 10:43 pm Hiking uphill through the hot tropical afternoon to the Aeta village of Baliwit, San Marcelino carrying our loaded backpacks was a challenge in itself. The happy thought of bringing some Christmas cheer into the lives of the very poor indigenous people kept us going. Our mission was to […]
Read More...FAIR TRADE – A TASTE OF JUSTICE
July 2, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen – I love to go to the villages of the Aeta indigenous people of Zambales where I have worked for the past 45 years. These original Filipino people have survived for millennia on the northern island of the tropical archipelago, as long as 30,000 years, some anthropologists say.
Read More...Blood stained ancestral land returned in Boracay
May 23, 2014 ·
VISIT TO A MANGO HARVEST
May 30, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen A few weeks ago, I was in the mountain villages of Zambales talking to a group of small subsistence farmers from the Aeta indigenous people. The agriculturists from the Preda Fair Trade project were there to help them gather and weigh their wild mangos and Preda Fair Trade staff were ready to pay them 100% […]
Read More...HAND PUMP DISTRIBUTION
May 28, 2013 ·
Six (6) indigenous people’s communities in Zambales received hand pump for water supply from PREDA. The beneficiaries of this assistance projects are the communities of PAPAHT, Cadmang, Reserva, Baculi, LAKAS and Cabuyao. Many more will be distributed with lengths of pipe and cement to supply clean drinking water and end the spread of disease in […]
Read More...THE BRAVE STRUGGLE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
March 19, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The pristine sands of Boracay Island, the popular Philippine tourist destination near Kalibo-Aklan, is stained with the blood of the innocent. Dexter Condez, a young 26 year-old lay missionary with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was shot dead on the island as he was returning home from a meeting […]
Read More...The Rich Grow Richer, the Poor Poorer
August 3, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Margie was just a young woman, about 23, freshly trafficked and lured from the province to the Philippine sex industry in Angeles city with the promise of earning money as a waitress to help her family. Still innocent in the ways of the lustful officials, sex tourists and bar operators, she applied last 25th June for a work […]
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