http://educforlife.org Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:28:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I chanced upon this post on Facebook from Christopher Domulot, who is spending some time in Japan, studying sustainable agriculture at the Asian Rural Institute. Christopher, nicknamed "Butog" is a graduate of the Aeta leadership course run by the Education for Life Foundation. LAKAS Pinatubo: our Ancestral Land, and to this ... http://educforlife.org/a-young-aetas-voice/ Our forests are now dwindling fast. Many of the floods, disasters and droughts we are experiencing have a strong link to our disappearing forests. What can education do?What can ordinary citizens do to save our forests? In many  fora and conferences, we hear the buzzword "biodiversity". What does this mean in our daily ... http://educforlife.org/what-will-help-us-protect-our-forests/ When the volcanic Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, its lava and ashes destroyed many surrounding villages – including the traditional homeland of the Ayta, indigenous people descending from the first inhabitants of the Philippines. Today, resettled elsewhere on Luzon island, they are trying to preserve their traditional culture and community ... http://educforlife.org/rising-from-the-ashes/ Yesterday, Ka Carling of LAKAS and PBAZ called me on the celfone: "The ceremony granting us the CADT to the 15,000 hectares will happen in the Botolan town plaza on January 14. Please come." Unfortunately, I won't be able to go, since I have a previous engagement. But I and the ... http://educforlife.org/new-year-new-hopes/ The Aeta leader-graduates and educators who have formed PBAZ - Paaralang Bayan ng Ayta sa Zambales, are the main strategic partners of ELF. ELF met with some Aeta leaders a few years after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 displaced the Aeta communities from their homeland and dispersed them to ... http://educforlife.org/good-news-from-our-aeta-partners/ November 24, 2009, I was in Sultan Kudarat to speak at a literacy conference organized by the Literacy Coordinating Council (LCC), the Education Network (E-Net), the provincial government, and Congressman Pax Mangudadatu. For a while, we thought the conference would not push through, since the day before, a horrific and gruesome ... http://educforlife.org/literacy-power-and-violence/ Last September 26, typhoon Ondoy caused unprecedented flooding in MetroManila. The raging flood waters entered the ground floor of ELF's administrative office, and drowned not just our paper files, but even those in the desktops and laptops that were submerged for hours. The same fate was suffered by E-Net Philippines, ... http://educforlife.org/a-new-home-for-elf/ When ELF decided on a strategic partnership with PBAZ, Paaralang Bayan ng mga Ayta sa Zambales, I proposed that we name our program "Developing Aeta LEADERS." I explained that LEADERS is an acronym for Leaders, Educators, Advocates, for Development, Empowerment, Resilience, and Sustainability. All the key words are part of the standard ... http://educforlife.org/aeta-resilience/ http://educforlife.org/saving-the-planet-rising-from-the-ashes/ May 18, at the University of the Philippines, the Education Nation had its MetroManila launch. Similar launch activities will follow in Baguio, Pampanga, Cebu, and Davao. E-Net Philippines, of which ELF is a founding member, is one of the convenors of Education Nation which seeks to bring together all the groups ... http://educforlife.org/join-us-in-the-education-nation/