A youth volunteer enjoy warm hugs and smiles from Manobo children who left Saturday morning to return to Loreto, Agusan del Sur after negotiations with their mayor assured them that soldiers are pulled out from their villages. The Manobos stayed in Bankerohan Gym for 18 days with support from church and other groups. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
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A Manobo toddler plays with a new pair of slippers given by support groups and the City Government as ‘parting gifts’ to the 500 Manobos who finally returned home to Loreto, Agusan del Sur after an agreement with their mayor that troops will be pulled out from their villages. The support groups provided food, health and other needs for the Manobos in Davao for the past 18 days. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
The Manobos will return to Loreto, Agusan del Sur carrying seedlings and farm tools from Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who helped facilitate a dialogue with their Mayor Dario Otaza to guarantee the pullout of troops and their safe return. The Lumads received seedlings of corn, mango, peanuts, mangosteen and Cacao, and farm tools. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
This elderly Manobo couple look serious even with the good news that they will finally return home to Loreto, Agusan del Sur after an agreement was signed with Mayor Dario Otaza to pull out the troops from their village and rehabilitate their farms. Some 500 Manobos stayed in Bankerohan Gym for 18 days since August 7 in protest of military operations in their village. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
This cultural activist is all smiles as she sings for the Manobo evacuees in a solidarity activity Friday at the evacuation gym in Bankerohan Gym. Some 500 Manobos will finally return to their villages in Loreto, Agusan del Sur after their mayor Dario Otaza signed an agreement to stop military operations and help rehabilitations of their farms. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
In a cultural show at Brokenshire College Friday for the benefit of Agusanon evacuees of Loreto, the audience was impressed by a young girl opening the show with her powerful rendition of “Tatsulok.”
