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• Power of Sulu Archipelago PTAs

  Members of the parent-teacher association (PTA) of the Manuk Mangkaw Pilot Elementary School in Tawi-Tawi Province help unload an electric generator which will be used to power the computer laboratory and home economics equipment purchased for their schoo...

• Reaching Remote Education Outposts

  Students of the Hadji Imam Banjal Elementary school in Manuk Mangkaw, Tawi-Tawi, crowd around the computer laboratory and home economics equipment purchased for their school through a partnership between their parent-teacher association (PTA) and USAID’...

• Well-Dried Grain Means Higher Income

  A farmer belonging to the Macabasa Farmers Association in Alamada, North Cotabato, spreads corn across a grains solar dryer built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program under its Barangay Infrastructure Project (BIP). Such dryers help t...

• Young Mindanao Leaders Headed for Congress

  Thirty participants in Cycle 11 of the Congressional Internship Program for Young Mindanao Leaders (CIPYML),  are pictured at  the University of the Philippines-Diliman (above) where they arrived for their orientation and academic training at the UP Nat...

• CLIC Helps Create a Generation of E-Savvy Mindanao Students

  ZAMBOANGA CITY—Tandong-clad students in Jolo, Sulu, huddling in front of a monitor, trawling online for the latest trends in website design. High school seniors in Pikit, North Cotabato, holding a video conference with counterparts in North America.  ...

• PTAs in Sulu Archipelago Prove to be Stellar Fundraisers for their Schools

  LAMITAN, BASILAN PROVINCE—Some parent-teacher associations in the Sulu Archipelago island-provinces, which are among the most remote and underdeveloped areas in the country, have emerged as top fundraisers for the improvement of education services in th...

• Export Quality Asparagus

  A former MNLF combatant and member of the Sumbakil Multipurpose Cooperative in Polomolok, South Cotabato, harvests asparagus from the co-op’s 11-hectare production area, which the co-op will sell to multinational company through a contract growing arran...

• Northern Mindanao Group Draws Global Attention as Market Facilitator for Small Farmers

  CAGAYAN DE ORO—An association of vegetable growers in Northern Mindanao is drawing the attention of multilateral development agencies, due to its success in helping smallholder farmers enter the high-end vegetable market supply chain. In An Agenda for ...

• Mindanao Firms Head for Top Japan Expo

  Representatives of Mindanao-based food companies on their way to Japan to participate in Foodex Japan 2011, one of the biggest international food exhibits in Asia, met with Secretary Luwalhati Antonino, chairperson of the Mindanao Development Authority (M...