http://educforlife.org Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:05:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a long time coming. More than a year ago, at an evening meeting in Barangay Villar, inside the Aetas ancestral domain, we shared our dreams which started with our partnership for Aeta learning and leadership. After a lot of discussion, they agreed on one priority - water for drinking ... http://educforlife.org/ram-pumps-and-other-aeta-dreams/ Posting some pictures for a workshop on Alternative Learning System in Edinburgh. Using the "Context-Content-Method" framework we developed in 1986-87 for popular education, one of the contexts I selected is "sustainable development of Aetas' ancestral domain." I visited Barangay Villar inside the ancestral domain. In a community assembly, Barangay Chairman Palab identified ... http://educforlife.org/a-ram-pump-for-barangay-villar/ What happened at 10:30 pm on June 15, twenty years ago? In fact, something stopped happening at that hour, on that date. According to scientists, that was the official end of the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. What happened since then has become part of one  “most significant story”  ... http://educforlife.org/1030-pm-june-15/ Christopher "Butog"Domulot is a young Aeta who has been studying at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. In a few weeks, he will be returning to the Philippines, to apply what he has learned. The following is his last "morning talk" to his classmates at ARI. At this time I want ... http://educforlife.org/a-young-aetas-farewell-talk/ For two days and two nights, I had a non-stop conversation with Aeta leaders of LAKAS and PBAZ inside their ancestral domain. We planned our trip to be a “visioning walk and talk,” and we did talk a lot about the future. But our conversations also shuttled back and forth, to ... http://educforlife.org/aetas-and-the-time-paradox/ October 11-12, I joined 25 Aeta leaders of LAKAS and PBAZ to visit their ancestral domain. We crossed the river of mud and lahar on a three-hour trip to Barangay Villar, and had an evening assembly to discuss their priorities. The next morning, we went on a two-hour hike to ... http://educforlife.org/a-visit-to-an-ancestral-domain/ Girlie has just finished packing my bag for  my early morning bus trip to Zambales tomorrow, for a two-day visit to the Aetas’ ancestral domain. She always helps me pack for any trip I make. Though she doesn’t say so, I sense that she worries about this trip. Perhaps she’s thinking ... http://educforlife.org/walking-with-the-aetas/ Last September 23 and 24, ELF brought four visitors from Bangladesh to Botolan Zambales, to meet the Aeta leader-graduates of our Grassroots Leadership Course. Imon, Aman, Bashir, and Rosy work with Protiggya Parishad, an NGO that is focused on the Comilla district in Bangladesh. We first met the Aeta basic literacy ... http://educforlife.org/aetas-go-organic/ You need not be as old as I am to have heard about this rude remark directed by Filipino teachers at slow learners or stubborn learners: “Go home and just plant camote!” Education is directly counterposed to camote: If you can’t study, then go farming. Not just any kind of farming, ... http://educforlife.org/education-and-camotes-a-korean-story/ The Philippine Daily Inquirer had this news item to day, August 29, 2010. It includes a story from Carling Domulot, Aeta leader and ELF leader-graduate. Some years ago, when ELF, in partnership with PBAZ, started an Alternative Learning System (ALS) for Aeta out of school youth and adults, the PBAZ ... http://educforlife.org/herbal-medicine-from-the-aetas/