Tag Archive: indigenous youth

Indigenous youth and ACI sisters journey together in faith and dialogue at Balay Laudato Si’

In a spirit of synodality and shared discernment, a group of indigenous youth from Upper Pulangi gathered at Balay Laudato Si’ in Bendum, Bukidnon on 12 to 13 July 2025 with the visiting sisters of the religious congregation Handmaids of…
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Youth work experience as an instrument for personal, communal, and ecological change

The Hulas program enables the holistic development of Mindanao youth through technical and vocational skills and leadership training since 2010. For the past 10 years, the program trained over 400 indigenous and migrant youth through short courses that integrate skills…
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Youth education for climate, preparing for a lifetime challenge

The youth know what it is to look after and share something they have nurtured, such as cooking bananas to feed the youth work team and giving some to neighbors. The youth today face many challenges, challenges of a lifetime….
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Indigenous youth lead action for Mindanao forests and farms

by Gloria Amor Paredes Community spirits were high in Sitio Nabag-o, a village in the Upper Pulangi area in northern Bukidnon, Philippines, as gulang (high school) students from the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) school in Bendum led tree-planting and…
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Higher Education in the Uplands

by Cherrydyn Miguel In collaboration with Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins (JC:HEM), we concluded a 3-month Online English course participated by different indigenous youth from various villages in UpperPulangi. Last April, 15 youth finished the English as Foreign…
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