by Mary Hernandez | Mar 12, 2016 | Indigenous Groups, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Dear CfBS friends and donors: We want to share a quick update about the crowdfunding campaign to support the T’boli teachers and school children in the LASIWWAI community. Teacher stipends, children’s meals and school uniforms were funded through the campaign. Jenita...
by Mary Hernandez | Sep 14, 2015 | Indigenous Groups
The Center for Babaylan Studies wants to raise $10,000 to keep the LASIWWAI Learning School in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines, open for the rest of the 2015-16 school year. Early this year, a severe drought in the T’boli area damaged the water system project...
by Mary Hernandez | Mar 16, 2015 | Indigenous Education
Research As Ceremony – a book review by Chaya Ocampo Go of Shawn Wilson’s “Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods”, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 2008 The author of this book review is a Filipina graduate scholar at the UBC Institute for Gender,...
by Mary Hernandez | Feb 24, 2015 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Indigenous Education
“Based on her 30 years of study on indigenous health and practices of the Igorots, a professor from the University of the Philippines Baguio is invoking the power of spiritual healing over diseases covered by the indigenous and spiritual practices in the...
