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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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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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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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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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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