Pedro Walpole After weeks of rain, I took a day’s break from the virtual COP27 sessions to visit APC’s connecting schools in other villages. It was 16 November and it was a bright morning. With Jason Menaling, APC’s Forest and…
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Pedro Walpole SJ During the academic year 2021–2022, K-12 culture-based education at the APC schools continued through modular approaches, and teachers tasked to deploy a new mode of learning adapted quickly. The Dalēpaan continued for the youth who wanted to…
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Small-scale farming and indigenous practices in the uplands of Asia are not very sustainable and a great majority of the youth wants out. Given the marginalisation and oppression that still rule in many of these environments with exploitation by corporate…
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Pedro Walpole SJ The biggest advance is another year of peace in the area and where community grows in stability and strength. We have not been affected adversely by typhoons while drought is still a possibility this year in the…
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Pedro Walpole, SJ Indigenous youth hold the future for many upland communities. The Jesuit way of engaging indigenous communities is to encounter people in their dignity, with respect and appreciation for what God created with them. It is about working…
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