SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro (PIA) — Mangyan farmers in Sta. Cruz town, Occidental Mindoro has earned more than ₱700,000 since the launch of the Alternative Palay Market Access for Indigenous Peoples ...

Win-ay Oyonan walks for hours and crosses rivers to register nearly 1,000 fellow Mangyan or 10% of the 9,000 of the indigenous population of Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro ORIENTAL MINDORO, Philippines – ...

To help the Mangyan community generate its own resources for the sustainability of their programs and activities, there are livelihood programs like poultry, swine raising and handicraft making. They ...

Anya Insik Postma did not know how great her Dutch anthropologist-father has been until she started to work with the nongovernment Mangyan Heritage Center Inc. (MHC) in the City of Calapan in Oriental ...

Generous, resilient and peace-loving — these words best describe the Mangyans of Mindoro. Their rich heritage took center stage in “Buklod Mangyan”, an exhibit mounted by Editha Buñag, Imelda Elido, ...

Juanito Guarde’s weathered face beams with pride while looking at the five frames of college diplomas hanging on the wall of his house at the foot of Mt. Halcon in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro province.

In Paitan, there live gentle people who know not the ways of war, people the color of clay, shy and swift like the deer, mountain-sturdy, brothers and sisters to the vanishing tamaraw. I wrote that in ...

MANILA, Philippines — It is very easy to judge someone we do not know. This seems to be the case for some people in the Philippines, which is home to around 100 million people, 12%-15% of whom are ...

"Ma-Mangyan Mangyan ka naman" is a phrase sometimes used to refer to a person acting stupidly or foolishly. "There is the tendency to generalize," says Zosing, a Mangyan, as he recalls the ...

Everybody and his/her cousins are trotting out vignettes about the recently departed former President Benigno Aquino III to show their, alas, belated and posthumous gratitude for his brand of ...