Community

Facilitator lauds OBAERA group for initiative moves

The facilitator of the council meeting of the Ompongan o mga Bae sa Ranao (OBAERA) praised its leadership for showing maturity and initiative as a community-based women’s organization. Hadji Jalel., program officer of Sustainable Livelihood program of the Maranao People’s Development Center, Inc.(MARADECA) said the women’s initiative to aspire for what they want was a […]

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MARADECA ‘rekoridas’ gather long list of public concern on proposed basic law

When Maranao PeopleDevelopment Center, (MARADECA) Inc. went around the mostly lakeside towns of Lanao del Sur in October this year to conduct information drive on the proposed basic law for Moro areas, not only did these generated eager attendance, they also became venues for serious discussions on the fate of the autonomous region for Filipino

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Leadership role, conflict-resolution tackled in training of women, farmers

Types of leaders, their roles and functions, as well as managing conflicts within the organization were among the major topics in a training conducted for two organizations of women and farmers in Lanao del Sur. The Organizational Management Training threshed out specific ideals of what a role leader should be to an organization, what were

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More Lanao del Sur residents equipped in product packaging

  Sixty-six more residents served by community organizations in Lanao del Sur joined the previous other graduates of trainings on safe and sanitary food handling given by the the Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA) Inc. This time, Maradeca’s Enterprise Development Program (EDP) unit conducted series of Product Packaging trainings in the five communities of Lanao del Sur.

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Poona Bayabao gets training on start-up of small businesses, livelihood

A joint project of two organizations has began training selected community leaders and peace advocates in the Lanao del Sur town of Poona Bayabao on starting livelihood and small economic ventures to allow peace advocacy to progress into a stronger self-sufficiency for families in former conflict areas. On May 21 this year, the Maranao People

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2 Maranao communities get cooking utensils after training

The Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA) Inc handed out sets of cooking utensils as livelihood assistance to two chapters of the Ompongan o mga Bae sa Ranao (OBAERA), and as follow through to the trainings they completed this year. The two chapters were located in Barangay Dimapatoy, in the Municipality of Bubong, and Barangay Guimba,

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Maradeca wants community water systems repaired, maintained after devastating typhoons

the devastating typhoons in the last two years – made much more worse for an unprepared Mindanao – has raised concern on the issue of potable water especially for the interior areas of Mindanao, where water is a scarce commodity. In Lanao del Sur, clean drinking water has been partially addressed with the few and

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Religious leaders in Lanao del Sur air support to Bangsamoro government, peace process

Islamic leaders and scholars in Lanao del Sur expressed their support to the formation of a new Bangsamoro government in Mindanao as they also expressed gratitude to the consultation organized by the Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA) Inc. The 32 participants of a consultation held on March 13 this year were teachers at the different

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Maranao groups taught on financial management, bookkeeping

Maranao women and youth in six areas in Marawi City and Lanao del Sur have acquired new and important skills on financial management, following a series of hands-on seminars intended for community organizations. The seminar taught 102 women and 64 men working in different peace, livelihood and community organizing  groups spread in one city and

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