We call her Tala — the Pilipino term for star. Tala comes from the Kalinga Tribe, one of the indigenous peoples in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. She serves concurrently as the PAR Community Development Director of PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Coffee For Peace, Inc. She has been with us since 2011 working with indigenous peoples, church leaders, and youth in implementing Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Programs. She’s a graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. She's now studying at Eastern Mennonite University—Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She will be finishing the course Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation from SY-2018 to SY-2020.
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CFP AND SPAMAST ARE NOW PARTNERS IN INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Coffee For Peace (CFP) and the Southern Philippines Agri-Business and Marine and Aquatic School of Technology (SPAMAST) are working together to generate new knowledge on environmental protection and social transformation.
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2018/08/09/cfp-and-spamast-are-now-partners-in-inclusive-development/
MOTHERS OF SLAIN SOLDIERS TRAIN FOR SOAP-MAKING
Usually, when we give this kind of training, the participants say it is for additional income. But this time, it becomes therapeutic. It is our first time to hear from participants that they want to learn soapmaking so that they have something else to do instead of wallowing in their grief. In them, I have …
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