DAVAO CITY — About 250 participants from different people’s organizations, government units, civil society and other peace advocacy groups from all over Mindanao will converge in Davao City for a one-day peace gathering.
Slated this July 1 at the Garden Oases Resort in Barrio Obrero in Davao City, the event is part of the project ‘Rebuilding Pathways towards Integral Peace and Development for the Uprooted People of Mindanao’, also known as Action-Repair.
Action-Repair is a 24-month capability-building project aimed at improving the socio-economic situation of the uprooted people. It is a mechanism to regain opportunities that they have lost during natural and human-made disasters, while strengthening their defense and resiliency to factors that lead to their recurrent displacement.
Components of the project aim toward sustainable agriculture and livelihood, agro-forestry, housing, water system development, disaster mitigation and preparedness, health and nutrition, stress and tension reduction therapies, literacy and numeracy, peace building and capacity building.
Action-Repair is implemented in 39 communities in the five regions of Mindanao covering eight provinces, 14 municipalities, one city and 26 barangays, with a total of 4,648 Moro, Lumad and Christian families or approximately 28,932 individuals. It started last in July 2007 ended in June of this year.
The peace gathering will be graced by Davao City Vice-Mayor Sarah Duterte plus local chief executives of the covered provinces and municipalities; party-list representatives Luz Ilagan and Satur Ocampo are also among the invited national officials. (PIA XI)
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