Youth Engagement and Network Strengthening for the BANGSAMORO

On May 2019, under the #YESBANGSAMORO project Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA) Incorporated, in partnership with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) Philippines and UNICEF conducted a youth-led community consultation on the Bangsamoro Youth Agenda through Focused Group Discussions in five (5) different barangays and municipalities in Lanao del Sur. Its purpose: engaging the youth in identifying …

The Agricultural Enhancement Farming Training

What is Agricultural Enhancement Farming Training?  In partnership with the CARITAS-Australia and DAF-ARMM, MARADECAโ€™s Sustainable and Enterprise Development Program, conducted the training to the farmers member in Brgy. Moriatao Datu, Lumbayanague, Lanao del Sur Province on March 23, 2017. Agricultural Enhancement Farming Training is a form of technology transfer using established soil and fertilizer management …

MARADECA reaches out to save lives

In partnership with Plan International, MARADECA responded to an emergency situation as a  result of the war that erupted in Marawi City last May 23, 2017 to present. On June 14-18, 2017 relief goods were distributed in the Informal Evacuation Centers at the  Madrasatul Jadidah, Baloi Rice Mill & the Mahad Abdel Azis Al-Islamie in …

Building Peace in Mindanao with CRS

The Maranao People Development Center, Inc. (MARADECA) in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) had a joint project called โ€œApplying Binding, Bonding and Bridging Peace in Mindanao. The project aims to improve the relationship between conflicting identity groups by employing a people-to-people approach.  One of its major activities for the month of April 2017 is …

CRS distributes relief supplies to IDPs through MARADECA

The Catholic Relief Service (CRS)  in cooperation with Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA Inc.,) distributed Hygiene Kits (grooming kits) and Kitchen Utensils (towels, bed sheets, mosquito nets, blankets, cooking pots, portable toilet, basins, plates and glasses, and nail cutters) on June 2017, a few weeks after the fall of Marawi City. The targeted displaced people …

Plight of IDPs in the Marawi crisis addressed by NGOs

In the midst of Marawi Crisis, MARADECA through its emergency response component have conducted several interventions to complement the government assistance to the demand for  immediate and basic necessities of the increasing number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). This includes the voluntary engagements of Returned Volunteers (RVs) from the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in supporting …