Tag Archive: ESSC

Community-based research in environmental justice through Jesuit institutions

Pedro Walpole SJ How do communities share their hopes and actions for change? Communities who are marginalized have a very different thought process to those actively engaging with change. Communities, when gathered, are often a disunity of people who happen…
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Challenges of multiple cultures and multiple languages for communities of practice

Communities of practice (CoP) are greatly challenged with increased multilingualism and there is a critical need to review and re-think ways in which they work. Multiple languages and multiple cultures provide new and unique contexts for community development workers trying to…
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From Bendum to Vatican: Pulangiyen Stories Reach International Conference on Laudato Si’

Representatives from the Pulangiyen community shared stories from the uplands in the recently held international conference on the 3rdAnniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter, Laudato Si’, at the Vatican, 5-6 July 2018. Pulangiyen community members Mercy Pakiwag and Jason Menaling…
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Furniture carpentry with Upper Pulangi youth in northern Mindanao, Philippines

By Arnel Santander Eleven youth participants from different villages in Upper Pulangi, Bukidnon in northern Mindanao, Philippines recently completed a four-week furniture carpentry course with finished wood products tha included 11 workbenches, four storage chests, seven standard-sized window frames, and…
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