...does exist. But when I met the Aetas, the living proof among the many cases of discrimination, I realized that is time for a change. As a citizen of our country, I believe that even students like us can help people like them in our own ways. And that is the main purpose of doing this documentation and that is to encourage people to help and keep an open mind on the societal issues that our country has. Its never too late for change. So lets act now. Eleanore: We all have experienced discrimination in our everyday lives, may it be a serious one or something that is laughed at the end of the day. But no matter how funny we think about the things we say about others, in some point, we've already offended and caused pain to other people. For me, all we need to do is to be more careful of what we say unto others to prevent things from hurting each other. We are all created equally and I dont see any reason why people should treat each other unfairly. Maybe, what we all need to do is to look at ourselves in the mirror before we start saying mean things to others. These are childish acts that we have brought as we grow older and I guess we all should be mature enough to notice everything that we're doing. We must learn to appreciate others and respect! Kara: When I first got in the area, I’m in doubt if we can make the interview possible. We even mock Aetas along our way to Zambales but during the interview as I saw the sincerity in the eyes of the Aeta, it changed the way I see them...
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...THE FENCE Jose Garcia Villa Chimelle Almira AB-3B Mary Joy Galeno AB-3B 1st reader: They were separate worlds; two opposing planets so near together that their repulsion had become stifled and in its repression become more envenomed. 2nd reader: Two women had built that fence. Two tanned country-women. One of them had caught herhusband with the other one night and by that incident Aling Biang gathered some bamboos to build the fence and then, that’s how it all started. 1st: Pok,Pok, Pok, sounded her crude hammer. Pok, Pok, Pok-Pok, Pok, Pok. When her husband asked her what she was doing, she answered, “I am building a fence.” 2nd: “What for?” he asked. 1st: “I need a fence.” 2nd: And then, too, even Aling Sebia, the other woman, a child-less widow, asked inoffensively, “What are you doing, Aling Biang?” 1st:“I am building a fence.” 2nd: “What for?” 1st: “ I need a fence aling Sebia. Please do not talk to me again.” 2nd: and the fence was completed, oily perspiration wetting the brows of the women, they gazed pridefully at the majestic wall that covers them. 1st: not long after the completion of the fence aling biang’s husband disappeared and never came back. 2nd: one night, from beyond the fence, aling biang heard cries from aling sebia. 1st: the cries of the other woman made her uneasy . “ what is the matter with you aling sebia?” 2nd: “ aling biang please go to the town and get me a hilot.” 1st: “what do you need a hilot for?” 2nd: “ I am going to...
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...Health Center with 67 Aeta mothers of a certain Sitio of Indigenous people as respondents on December, 2010. A four-part content-validated interview schedule was used to elicit data. The interview schedule was validated by two professors who are master’s degree holders and one with Doctorate degree. The interview schedule was personally administered by the researchers to the respondents. Descriptive statistics used are frequency distribution and percentage, whereas inferential statistics used to test significant differences are t-test and one-way analysis of variance. Pearson’s r was used to test correlation between the three major variables. The main objective of the study is to determine the awareness, access and utilization of the health services of the Brgy. Health Center among aeta mothers of Sitio Nagpana, Brgy. Lipata, Btac. Viejo, Iloilo. The specific objectives are: 1. To determine the characteristics of Aeta mothers in terms of age, civil status, educational attainment, religion, family size, occupation, and total household income per month. 2. To determine the level of awareness of the Aeta mothers to the health services provided by the Barangay Health Center. 3. To determine the degree of access of the Aeta mothers to the health services provided by the Barangay Health Center. 4. To determine the extent of utilization of the Aeta mothers of the health services provided by the Barangay Health Center . 5. To determine whether the Aeta mothers’ awareness...
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...Kristine Anne L. (Tin) Organization/Agency: NA/ Aetas in Brgy. Camias Porac, Pampanga Contact Name: Dave Baalan Title: Share Literacy Program for Pampanga’s Aetas Community Telephone: 09292098431 Fax: N/A E-mail: N/A Website: http://karapatria.com/aeta_school.html Address: Barangay Camias City: Porac, Pampanga City 1. What is the mission/purpose of your organization? Mission: In line with the Lasallian Business leaders code of ethics, the purpose of our group is to embody knowledge, moral values and sustainable development with the intention of addressing the needs of the Aetas community. Through the use of literacy medium in reading, writing and basic math. Quote: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day ; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” (Maimonides ,1229) 2. Please list the primary population(s) served? (youth, seniors, children, homeless, etc.) According to our source, the estimated population in the community is 500 which consists of 150 families with age brackets as follows: * Adult population: 30 years old and above * Youth population: 12 to 29 years old * Infant to child population: 1 month to 11 years old Please see below graph for further breakdown: Figure 1: Population Served 3. What community need would a service-learning class or student address? Indigenous people of the Philippines as we call the “Aetas”, are one of the oldest groups of inhabitants found...
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...1. Cite a situation showing the impact of planning in your school/ society. Planning refers to the act of deciding in advance what is to be done, how and when to do it, where and who is to do it in order to achieve the goals or objectives of the system. For example, when arrangements are made as to how many students are to be in a class, how many classes will be needed to accommodate all the available children seeking admission into our school system, we say we have planned the educational system. Therefore, a plan is a detailed scheme, programme or method worked out before hand for the purpose of achieving a set of objective. In order to achieve the plan we must have trained teachers to teach. Buildings and many facilities have to be put up in order to have educational institutions function effectively. The people we teach in schools, teacher training colleges and universities have to meet the needs of the society. It is these people that later works as doctors, lawyers, teachers and policemen and more. In Quezon National High, the school where I teach. One of the project which Mam Ruanto push is to build and restore additional buildings to accommodate the growing numbers of student enroling in this school. She informed the teachers for this plan and they set up actions that could helped to achieve this project. One of the step they did is to ask helped from the alumni of this school with connections in international organization and they asked support from different politicians...
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...pangkat ng mga aeta sa halos lahat ng dako ng kapuluan. May iba't iba silang pangalansa iba't ibang lugar. Higit silang marami sa Luzon. Aeta o Ayta ang tawag sa kanila sa hilagang Luzon.Ibuked naman ang tawag sa mga aetang nakatira nang malayo sa mga kapatagan. Sa Kofun, Diango,Paranan at Assao sa Cagayan, Ugsig at Aita ang tawag sa kanila. Sa Palawan, Batak ang tawag sa kanila.Sa Silangang Quezon, Rizal at Bulacan, Dumagat ang tawag sa mga Aeta.Nawala na ang orihinal na wika ng mga Aeta dahil inangkin na nila ang wika ng mga tagakapatagan nakanilang nakakasalamuha. Hindi pa rin naalis sa kanila ang kultura ng pangangaso at paghanap ng mgapagkain mula sa mga halaman sa kapaligiran. Bihasa rin ang mga babae at batang Aeta sa tradisyunal naparaan ng pangingisda gamit ang sima, bitag, lambat at sibat.Pulut-pukyutan ang espesyal na pagkain para sa mga Pinatubo Aeta at Ibuked Ayta. Kumakain din angmga Pinatubo Aeta ng umok o maliliit na pukyutan at ng latak na nakukuha sa bahay ng pukyutan.Pamilya ang pangunahing yunit ng lipunang Aeta.Gayunpaman, tinutulungan din ng pamilya angkapamilyang namatayan ng asawa. May pantay na karapatan ang kanilang mga anak at mahigpit angpagkakaugnay ng magulang at anak. Isa lamang ang asawa ng bawat Aeta. Bawal sa kanila ang pag-aasawa sa malapit na kamag-anak. Ngunit pinapayagan ang ilan na magpakasal sa pinsang buo mataposganapin ang ritwal na paghihiwalay ng dugo.Nakabatay sa paggalang sa matanda ang sistemang pulitika ng mga Aeta. Ang mga iginagalang...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM Introduction Health is a right of every human being. Healthy people are a pre-requisite to national development. The department of health uses the life span approach to design programs and assist in the delivery of health services to specific age groups. It views health care of individuals within the context of the family. The term family is defines as the basic unit of the community. All members of the family are empowered to maintain their health status. The health of the family is considered as a whole and not individually. (Cuevas, 2009) In the Philippines, three million pregnancies occur every year, half are unintended, one third of which end in abortions. An estimated eleven mothers die of pregnancy related causes everyday, most of these deaths could have been avoided in a properly functioning health care delivery system. Among the leading direct causes of maternal deaths in the country are: post partum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, abortion related complications and obstructed labor. Beyond the glaring data of mortality lies a huge toll of ill health and disability due to pregnancy related complications and infant and child deaths and deepening poverty in families where a mother has died. It is estimated that for every maternal death there is at least twenty to thirty other women who suffer from serious complications, some of which are life long. Maternal health conditions are the leading causes of burden of disease among women...
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...Volcanic eruptions create hazardous conditions, which severely affect people and human infrastructure, near the volcano, in downstream valleys, and thousands of miles away. Evacuation of the population at risk had been the concern of local authorities as early as April 1991 when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) declared a 6-mile-radius danger zone around the volcano. PHIVOLCS, jointly with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), had conducted intensive studies and monitoring of the volcano’s activity from which it forecast and declared an imminent eruption and issued early warnings to the communities at risk. Among the first to have evacuated were the indigenous Aeta highlanders who had lived on the slopes of the volcano. About 20,000 in population, the Aetas had been safely evacuated before the eruption. People from the lowlands heeded also the warnings and fled to safer distance from the volcano. Also, more than 15,000 American...
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...Maria. Maganda at magiliw si Maria, at wiling-wili ang mag-asawang diwata sa anak na itinuring nilang kanilang kayamanan at ligaya sa buhay. Diwata rin tulad ng mga magulang, hindi karaniwan si Maria subalit naki-halubilo siya at nakipag-usap sa mga tao. Naging ugali niya ang mamasyal sa talipapa kapag araw, naka-damit ng sutla (seda, silk) na may borda (embroidered ) ng mga bulaklak, ang uso nuon. Ang makapal niyang buhok, abot hanggang sakong (talón, heel ) ang haba, ay may sabit na mga bulaklak ng suha ( pomelo, grapefruit). Marikit ang kanyang mga mata (ojos, eyes) kaya pati mga babae ay naakit makiharap sa kanya. Pagdaan niya, yumuyuko ang mga tao sa magalang na pagbati. Dalawang katulong na Aeta ang lagi niyang kasama pagpunta sa talipapa. Hindi lumalayo ang mga Aeta, bitbit ang isang buslo (basket) ng luya na ipinagpa-palit ni Mariang Makiling - wala pang salapi nuon, at ang “bilihan” sa katunayan ay palitan lamang ng mga dala-dalang bagay - sa mga salakot, banig (sleeping mats), at sutla (seda, silk). Isang araw, nagtungo sa talipapa ng Makiling si Gat Dula, ang panginuon sa nayon ng Bai, upang mamili at mag-aliw. Siksikan ang mga tao duon sapagkat “araw ng pamilihan” nuon, at lahat sa nayon ay nasa talipapa. Pati ang mga taga-kalapit baranggay at nayon ay dumayo upang magkalakal din, bitbit ang kanilang mga “paninda.” Nanduon din nuon si Mariang Makiling at nagkataon, nakasabay niya si Gat Dula sa “pagtawad” sa isang...
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...THE HOBO EXPERIMENT: A Story of the Tribal People of Asog Book II JANUARY 10, 2013 by BICOLMAIL in SPECIAL FEATURE THE EDDIE SUAREZ FACTOR Chapter XIV By Ricardo E. Perez honeyhunter52@yahoo.com Mr. Eddie Suarez of HOBO, MInalabac, Camarines Sur (Standing 3rd from right) is all smiles as he welcomes the Aetas’ from Mt. Asog, Iriga City, together with some companions, to his poultry farm in Antipolo, Minalabac, Camarines Sur, fulfilling his promise to help resettle and support members of the Indigenous Peoples find a better way to survive. Almost a year ago, last February 2, 2012, my son Allan and I were motoring home from Ligao City, Albay after finishing the paperwork involved in a vehicular accident where our car was rear ended by an over speeding cargo truck. As we approached the intersection of the Fuentebella Highway going to Partido area, my cell phone rang. The number of the caller was totally unfamiliar to me as was the voice on the other end of the line. The first word I heard uttered by the caller when I answered the call was “is this Mr. Perez?” and I was quick to reply and said, “yes Sir, this is Mr. Perez on the line”. He thereafter immediately identified himself as “Mr. Suarez” and asked me if it is possible for us to meet in person. Perhaps sensing the questions running on my mind, he immediately followed up his first statement by saying that he has been reading the series of articles or essays I have been writing in the pages of Bicol Mail, entitled...
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...Memorable Kapampangans and Their Contributions MEMORABLE KAPAMPANGANS | DESCRIPTION | CONTRIBUTION/S | | | | 1. José Abad Santos | He was born in San Fernando, Pampanga to Vicente Abad Santos and Toribia Basco. He was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. | He briefly served as the Acting President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II, in behalf of President Quezon after the government went in exile to the United States. After about two months, he was killed by the Japanese forces for refusing to cooperate during their occupation of the country. | 2. Eliseo Fernando "Bro. Eli" Soriano | He is a Filipino televangelist. He is the current Presiding Minister of thePhilippines-based Christian organization Members Church of God International, colloquially known through its radio and television program Ang Dating Daan He was born to Triunfo Soriano and Catalina Fernando in Pasay City and is the seventh of eight children. He grew up in Pampanga. He started school at the age of eight. | His radio and television program is considered the longest-running religious program in the Philippines.Soriano is known for his signature method of "Bible Expositions". This live event adopts the symposium format where guests and visitors get the chance to ask Soriano with their questions personally or by live video streaming. | 3. Satur Ocampo | He was born in Santa Rita, Pampanga, Philippines. He is a Filipino party-list representative...
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...HEALTH RESEARCH AGENDA SETTING IN REGION 2 Center for Health Development for Cagayan Valley (CHD-CV) Department of Science and Technology (DOST) National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) FOREWORD The current thrust of the Department Of Health conceptualized by no less than the Hon. Secretary Himself, Dr. Francisco T. Duque, III, coined as FOURmulaONE aims to “undertake critical reforms with SPEED, PRECISION and EFFECTIVE COORDINATION directed at improving the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of the Philippine Health System in a manner that is felt and appreciated by the Filipinos, especially the poor”. Now, more than ever, the health of the Filipino people should not be the sole responsibility of DOH through CHD-CV (as initial chair of the Regional R&D Coordinating Council of the consortium) rather the unified efforts of allied agencies/institutions, NGOs and most importantly, the individual himself. Unfortunately, many areas in the country, Region 02 included, have little or no access to information that affect the environment and people’s health. As a consequence, people live their lives without the benefit of some precautions that they may observe in order to safeguard their well-being. It is in this light that through the stewardship of PCHRD, through its Executive Director Jaime C. Montoya and DOST Regional office through Dir. Rustico B. Santos, DOHCHD-CV through Dir. Purita S. Danga and her Asst. Dir.,Dr. Tita N. Callueng; NEDA. Dir Milagros Rimando;...
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...History The pioneer settlers of the Mindoro Islands were the Aeta, referred to in the early Spanish accounts as the Chichimecos. It has been theorized that when the Malay immigrants arrived in Mindoro, they pushed the Aeta deep into the interior. The former, however, did not completely isolate the latter and instead continued bartering their commodities with forest products which were in turn traded with foreign merchants plying Philippine seas. The Mangyan settled along the shores of Mindoro Island approximately 600-700 years ago. It is believed that they had come from the southern regions of the archipelago. They were gradually forced to leave their coastal settlements by more aggressive groups. It appears that the Mangyan have traditionally been an unwarlike people, choosing to give up an area uncontested rather than fight for it. The earliest accounts, which mention Mindoro and its people, are found 13th century Chinese dynastic records. A number of Chinese state documents, particularly those written in the Sung and Ming dynasties, suggest that before the coming of the Spanish conquistadors, commercial trade was flourishing between the inhabitants of Mindoro and Chinese merchants. Objects unearthed on the island, such as ceramics, porcelain, large earthenware, beads, and glass object are evidence of precolonial trade, which contributed to the shaping of an indigenous material culture among the early inhabitants of Mindoro. The island was a viable...
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...Director Brillante Ma Mendoza is a living national treasure of the Philippine alternative cinema.The first Filipino to win the most coveted Best Director Award for his film “Kinatay” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Dubbed by the world’s film critics as an ultra neo-realist for his films. Brillante’s films depict social realities about the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situati ons against the backdrop of issues that plague the country. Director Brillante Ma. Mendoza was born on July 30, 1960 in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. He finished Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas where he majored in Advertising. His career began as a Production Designer in feature films, television, and theatre. His mastery over production design was featured in acclaimed local films such as Takaw Tukso (Flirting With Temptation, 1986), Private Show (1986), Olongapo (1984), The Great American Dream (1987), and many others. In 2005, Mendoza founded Centerstage Productions (CSP), an independent film production outfit. This film out fit produced feature films that gained several awards in local and international film festivals. As a production designer for feature films, he moved to television commercial productions and became one of the most sought after production designers. From 1990 to 2004, he focused his career as an Art Director for television commercials for national and multi-national advertisers: San Miguel Brewery, Asia Brewery, PLDT, Globe Telecom, Smart...
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...------------------------------------------------- Philippine History/Before The Coming of Spanish Colonialists < Philippine History Before the coming of Spanish colonizers, the people of the Philippine archipelago had already attained a semicommunal and semislave social system in many parts and also a feudal system in certain parts, especially in Mindanao and Sulu, where such a feudal faith as Islam had already taken roots. The Aetas had the lowest form of social organization, which was primitive communal. ------------------------------------------------- The Society[edit] The barangay was the typical community in the whole archipelago. It was the basic political and economic unit independent of similar others. Each embraced a few hundreds of people and a small territory. Each was headed by a chieftain called the rajah or datu. Social Structure[edit] The social structure comprised a petty nobility, the ruling class which had started to accumulate land that it owned privately or administered in the name of the clan or community. * Maharlika: an intermediate class of freemen called the Maharlika who had enough land for their livelihood or who rendered special service to the rulers and who did not have to work in the fields. * Timawa: the ruled classes that included the timawa, the serfs who shared the crops with the petty nobility. * Alipin: and also the slaves and semislaves who worked without having any definite share in the harvest. There were two kinds...
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