Tag / Mangyan

By Maricar Cinco |Inquirer Southern Luzon It is not just Puerto Galera’s long, white beaches that have been drawing tourists to Oriental Mindoro. A community of the Iraya, a subtribe of the Mangyan, has also gained their attention.   Situated at the foot of Mt. Malasimbo, 9 kilometers from the town proper,...

  By Madonna Virola Philippine Daily Inquirer   Summoned by a blare of the budyong, an instrument made from animal horn, the community of some 100 mainly Mangyan people and their guests took their seats around an area marked for the day’s big event at Tugdaan Mangyan Center for Learning and Development.   It...

  Photo and story by Inday Guapa   The impromptu weekend started with a phone call during a lazy Saturday mid-morning, right after Christmas, from Kuya Benjie, who invited us to go with him to visit his adopted Mangyan community in Mindoro in the foothills of Mt. Halcon. Without thinking twice we said yes and in an hour,...

By Jake Lucas   For centuries, indigenous communities in the Philippines have kept the country’s rainforests safe from over-use, thanks to their deep and spiritual respect for nature’s limits.   “Whatever the forests can give, that’s only what they take,” says Ruth Canlas, facilitator for the Philippines...

Story by Francis D. Abes of Balikas.net   NAUJAN, Oriental Mindoro—NOON ang tulad nila ay ayaw pag-aralin ng kanilang mga magulang sapagkat anila ang may mga “pinag-aralan” ang silang nang-aagaw sa kanilang lupain.   Ngayon, sinisikap nilang makapagtapos sa pag-aral sapagkat anila ito ang pangunahing...

CALAPAN CITY, Philippines – Some 100 Mangyan families in remote and depressed communities in Victoria and Naujan towns in Oriental Mindoro, who had no access to electricity, received free “solar-powered” lanterns from a private company and a non-government organization (NGO) under a humanitarian/corporate social...