Under the Gun: School for Tribal Children in Surigao Bears Brunt of Militarization
Under the Gun: School for Tribal Children in Surigao Bears Brunt of Militarization
A non-formal school in Surigao del Sur has shown how education serves as a tool to unite and develop Lumad communities. Now, amid the evacuation by Manobo villages triggered by the presence of soldiers, the school is being targeted by the military, claiming that it is an “NPA school.”
By DEE AYROSO
Bulatlat.com
First of three parts
LIANGA, Surigao del Sur — Myra, 18, a Manobo youth, is her parents’ teacher. She teaches them sustainable farming methods alien to the nomadic tribe’s shifting style of planting from one place to another.
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