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)
Attacks on Lumad schools and rights scored on World Indigenous Day
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.
