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IBRAHIM BALONO IS NOW
MINDANAO
'S NO.1 PROFESSIONAL BARISTA!
 Ibrahim Balono of Peacebuilders Community
Café won the highest award in the 7th Mindanao Culinary
Festival, Mindanao Flavor Espresso Challenge—Professional
Category, held at the
NCCC
Convention Center
in
Davao
City
.
Officially,
he is now the number one professional barista, or
espresso blend designer, in the whole of
Mindanao
. A group of executive chefs served as judges in this
biggest and most prestigious culinary competition in
Southern Philippines
.
Ibrahim has been working on an espresso blend called Cifra a
la Mode for the past few months. He practices kai
zen—or, continuous improvement—through a series of comments and suggestions from a group of loyal clients
made up of students, NGO workers, foreign missionaries, and
local business people. They served as his informal
"focus group" as he sought excellence in the design of
his espresso blends.
Cifra a la Mode is citrus-flavored frapuccino with fine
chocolate flakes spread on top of thick froth. Cifra a la
Mode is Ibrahim's winning entry and our current feature at
the Peacebuilders Community Café.
Ibrahim wore his tubao, the traditional Maguindanao
Muslim head gear, during the awards ceremony. He wants to
encourage his fellow Maguindanaons to continually reach for
excellence in whatever they do as they journey together in the
realization of their right to self-determination as Bangsamoro
people. Ibrahim is a creative peacebuilder and is so
committed to our dream: To be a community of peacebuilding
teams in
Mindanao
who are committed to serve with the Bangsamoros, the Lumads, and the
Migrants;
together
we hope towards harmony and lasting peace in our land.
We, his tri-people team-mates at Peacebuilders Community, are
very proud of our Kaka Ibs!
Come and taste Cifra a la Mode, the best espresso blend
in
Mindanao
, and meet the nice
guy who designed it! Visit the Peacebuilders Community Café
at
123 University Avenue
,
Davao
City.
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PEACEBUILDERS
COMMUNITY CAFÉ
Visit
us at the Peacebuilders Community Café and enjoy the taste of
our brewed and espresso blends within a wifi zone! You
will be served by our professionally-trained barista who also
knows the story of the community who farmed and processed our
featured arabica and liberica, coffee beans. We serve
fair-traded coffee.
 We
are located at
123 University Avenue
cor.
Talisay Street
, Juna Subdivision, Matina,
Davao
City
--near Philippine Women's College. We are open from
8:00 AM
to
11:00 PM
, Monday to Saturday (except holidays).
It all started when Jon Rudy, our strategic adviser here at
Peacebuilders Community, came up with the idea of a "coffee
for peace." Three months later, a coffee shop is
opened with the following set of objectives:
:: To generate local, sustainable income to finance our
full-time peacebuilding team organizers
:: To provide space for peace-loving people to share
their ideas on how to advance the cause of peace in the context
of their communities
:: To promote the cause of strategic peacebuilding among
students and young professionals in our city and around the
world
:: To promote Mindanao's fair-traded coffee in the
national and global market
This coffee shop was designed by Miss Sheana Bacus, a young
architect who was born and raised in Davao City. Engineer
Shearon Bacus, Sheana's twin-sister, managed the project.
The whole construction was led by Engineer Ericson Luzon.
These young professionals from
Davao
support the
dream of Peacebuilders Community, Inc. and they hope to
gather more of their friends to help advance the cause of
lasting peace and reconciliation in our land.
Click
here to know more about this income generating project and
peace awareness program.
Hope to see you at Peacebuilders Community Café.
Salam
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