TREASURED MOMENT. Datu Sintunan Malibato (left), a staunch leader of Manobo tribe in Kapalong, Davao del Norte gets emotional as his son hands over his medal during the graduation and moving-up ceremony of Bakwit schools at Redemptorist Church in Davao City on Friday, April 5. The young Malibato is one of over a hundred Lumad students who pursued their education inside the evacuation center under Salugpungan Ta Tanu Igkanugon Community Learning Center and Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI) Academy. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
On the International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples on August 8, Manobo leader and Bayan Muna representative Eufemia Cullamat called for an end to attacks of indigenous peoples in the country.