Maranao youths dream of a clean Lake Lanao

A clean Lake Lanao has become one of central objectives of Maranao youths to work on the next few months, alongside a package of activities that would transform also their respective communities in Lanao del Sur into better and cleaner places to reside. To achieve it though, work must not revolve only in clean-up drives …

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 …

MARADECA FIRMS UP STRATEGIES FOR 2014

The Maranao People Development Center (MARADECA) crafted its more determined and significant strategies for this year, after crystallizing its strengths and weakness in an assessment of its performance in 2013. This year’s strategic program identified more workable projects and ways to implement more development projects in the communities assisted by Maradeca and its partner organizations spread in …

Framework Agreement of the Bangsamoro needs to be spread wider to communities

Participants to the awareness seminar  on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro acknowledged the importance of the document to deepen the understanding of the Moro communities in what has developed so far in the Peace Process. “I thanked the organization for providing us avenue for discussion to level up common understanding on the history and …

Training awakens need to mainstream gender

A training that requires workshops and processing has raised the need to widen the outreach of mainstreaming gender issues in the community to prevent further problems related to misunderstanding about each other’s gender issues. One participant in the training held in Marawi City in September expressed this concern after he participated in the training organized …

Provincial Election Monitoring Action Center Organized

Through the collaborative effort of the related agencies and the civil society organizations, the creation of the Provincial Election Action Center (PEMAC) was realized. It becomes a bridge to have a sharing and counter validation of the data received from the ground during the May 13, 2013 national and local synchronized elections. The objective of …