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“Is the PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) pro-mining or anti-mining?” We have been bombarded with this question by our partners, colleagues, and critics while in the field and during conferences. There is no simple answer to this. We decided to educate our position. So, we started by consulting with Rosabel Naromal. She graduated with a Bachelor …
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A woman and her two children are huddled on the floor of the comfort room while the wind and rain raged around them. The sky was dark and she dares not to lift her head for fear of being hit by flying objects. She was praying hard for her son who in another part of …
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Our volunteers made it possible for Peacebuilders Community to deliver 14,000 food packs to survivors of Typhoon Pablo (International name: Bopha). These are some of their stories. ALEX BALICUATRO. Five members of his family were killed in Typhoon Falcon that flooded Davao City on June 28, 2011. After the flood, he was trying to rebuild …
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5,388 families in eight barangays (villages) received family packs on 24-25 December. Sixty seven volunteers spent the Christmas Eve in tents in Cateel, one of the most Typhoon Pablo-devastated towns in Davao Oriental province. Christians, Muslims and other faiths worked as one team to do one mission – serve as many people as they can …
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TYPHOON PABLO AFTERMATH IN MINDANEWS Our field volunteers have committed to 10,000 out of more than 1,000,000 families who are all equally in dire need of food, drinking water, dry clothing, and shelter. PLEASE SEND YOUR DONATION TO: Account Name: PEACEBUILDERS COMMUNITY, INC. Checking Account Number: 007-547-00228-4 Bank Transit: 03026-0166 International Swift Code: MBTCPHMM Bank …
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PeaceBuilders Community gives glory to God for guiding both panels of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) who brought the peace negotiations at this advanced level of conflict transformation and reconciliation processes. The newly-signed 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro is a product of years of sacred efforts by many …
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Seventeen PBCI-trained volunteers coming from the different communities and villages of Iligan City are now actively participating in the Rehabilitation Phase of the comprehensive disaster response to the Sendong Flood of December 2011. These men and women have been going through PBCI’s Health-Care and Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Training for Community-Based Volunteers since March 2012 in coordination …
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Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2012/08/par-health-care-and-psycho-social-team-in-iligan-is-now-operational/
07.JULY.2012. Valencia City. Thirty-two leaders representing the Council of Evangelical Churches in Bukidnon (CECB), the Valencia City Evangelical Ministers Association, Inc. (VCEMAI), and the Lantapan Inter-Faith Ministerial Association (LIFMA) completed the 3-month Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Training. The PAR Training was facilitated by PBCI Consulting Team, in partnership with the Peace and Reconciliation Commission …
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The staff of PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) and Coffee for Peace (CFP) gathered together for a psycho-spiritual retreat to explore the principle of metamorphosis in their individual lives and in their corporate life. In that 5th PBCI Annual ReTreat, 23 full-time PBCI staff members and 6 CFP baristas spent three days with each other for …
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06.MAY.2012. Cagayan de Oro City. The evangelical churches in CDO gathered together to declare that “Jesus is the Lord of Ecology!” This march around the downtown core was an expression of the unity of the Body of Christ to advance peace with God’s creation. There were more than five thousand people from various church denominations …
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Sungko, Lantapan, Bukidnon, April 9, 2012—The leaders of the Talaandig tribe, the representatives from the Office of the President on Political Affairs and the top executives of Unifrutti Group of Companies joined together to dialogue, tell their stories, share their aspirations and search for healing for their wounded past. Unifrutti Group of Companies (UGC) is …
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March 7-8, 2012. The sound of the jembe drums greets us as we enter the Talaandig Ancestral Territory in Barangay Sungko, Municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon Province. The long dirt road is lined with flags, each one representing a different tribe of Mindanao in honor of the guests who will arrive today for a historic gathering. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2012/03/we-were-at-the-reaffirmation-of-kinship-between-moro-and-ip-in-mindanao/
