Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).
This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
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?More on livelihood, health care and basic services ? water supply, better road access, and education.? These are the needs of indigenous peoples (Lumads) in his province, according to Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario when Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI), a Davao City based non-governmental organization (NGO), made a courtesy visit in his office.
"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
