Tubad Mindanao

Tubad is a Blaan word that means "new generation or descendant of a tribe".Blaan is one of the indigenous peoples group of southern Mindanao, Philippines specifically in South Cotabato, Sarangani Province, General Santos City, and Davao Del Sur.Features on cultural appreciation and development of the different indigenous peoples groups of Mindanao are very welcome to be posted in this blog.

Friday, September 11, 2009

School of Living Tradition

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (September 11, 2009) – Businessman Roy Chiongbian is guest speaker during the graduation ceremony of 13 Tagakaolo women ...

Tribal women

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (September 11, 2009) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon (left) congratulates one of the 13 Tagakaolo women graduates...

Women's representative

›
Malungon, Sarangani (September 11, 2009) – Board Member Nene Santos gives her remarks encouraging tribal women to pass on Tagakaolo traditio...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Lumad association

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (August 28, 2009) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon listens to a report of Sitio Ihan Lumad Association (SILA) during...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Free eye check up and eyeglasses

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (August 19, 2009) - Galngan Manggun, 89, a Blaan, avails the free eye check up and a free reading glasses facilitated b...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Tribal dance

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (August 18, 2009) – Elon Tolentino plays the faglung, the Blaan guitar, as he dances with Magdalena Gambo and other trib...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Lumad children visit city for first time

›
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – Thirty Grade VI pupils from New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools, seeing the city for the first ...

Kiangkos and New Canaan pupils at Bombo Radyo

›
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – Grade VI pupils from New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools, with sponsors Quality Education for S...

SPPC with indigenous children

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Pupils of New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools pose with Southern Philippines Power Corporation pe...

Visit at the city of tuna

›
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – Indigenous children of New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools pose at Makar Wharf during their “Ma...

Wharf visit

›
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – Indigenous pupils of New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools pose with their teachers Leo Lecita an...

FEATURE: Making little dreams possible

›
By Russtum G. Pelima, MA Ed GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – It’s a day in the city that these kids would never forget through all thei...

Assistance to lumad pupils

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Quality Education for Sarangani Today (QUEST) program manager Annalie Edday, with Alcantara Foundation e...

Rocky road to a little dream

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Pupils of New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools, with volunteers and staff of Quality Education for...

QUEST with pupils

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – QUEST program manager Annalie Edday (center) enjoys an afternoon chat with pupils of Kiangkos Primary Sc...

Making little dreams possible

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Indigenous children of the Blaan tribe pose with their tarp for their “Making Little Dreams Possible” ed...

Lumad pupils at "Quest Waterfalls"

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Lumad pupils pause at a waterfalls they named “QUEST Waterfalls” with Quality Education for Sarangani To...

Crossing river to city

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (July 27, 2009) – Grade VI pupils of New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools cross a river and walk for eight hours Thu...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Village dancers

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (July 17, 2009) – Upper Lasang Elementary School dancers in their Blaan traditional costume perform to win the dance co...

Governor's message

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (July 17, 2009) – Governor Migs Dominguez gives his inspirational message Friday, July 17, to the Muslim and Blaan comm...

Community celebrates Kanduli Festival for peace

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (July 17, 2009) – On its 60th Foundation Anniversary today, barangay Sapu Masla celebrated unity among its indigenous B...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Tribal parade

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Blaan elders bang their gongs as they join the parade for the Lamlifew Elementary School as it celebrat...

School head

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Lamlifew Elementary School head Romeo Bogador shows parents and school children some beads for the bead...

QUEST project manager

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Analie Edday, QUEST’s (Quality Education for Sarangani Today) program manager, with teary eyes, explain...

Float parade

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Carted carabaos were ornamented as floats during the parade Wednesday, July 1, as Lamlifew Elementary S...

Bluan river

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Village pupils from the Lamlifew Elementary School cross the Bluan river believed to have sprung up fro...

As the tribe learns, the river speaks in Lamlifew

›
By Russtum G. Pelima, Ma. Ed. MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Not too many of us, lowlanders, known to have been bearers of education f...

Young Blaan beauties

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – In a unique float parade by crossing the Bluan river, young girls competing for the search for Miss Lam...

School lunch

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Community volunteers roast two pigs for lunch as the Lamlifew Elementary School celebrates its 13th fou...

Lamlifew pupils

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – School children of the Lamlifew Elementary School show their smile with their tribal dress at the schoo...

Field demonstration

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Lamlifew Elementary School pupils in tribal dress perform a field demonstration during the school’s 13t...

Blaan lasses

›
MALUNGON, Sarangani (July 2, 2009) – Young Blaan girls get by the flowers at the school ground of Lamlifew Elementary School during its 13th...
Monday, June 29, 2009

New Canaan Elementary School

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Pupils show their reading workbooks distributed by QUEST (Quality Education for Sarangani Today) staff a...

QUEST program director

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Anne Eday, QUEST program director, leads staff and volunteers in the distribution of reading workbooks d...

QUEST volunteers

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Crossing a river for 23 times and trekking mountain trails for two days, these QUEST volunteers and staf...

Quest workbooks

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) - Pupils show their reading workbooks distributed by QUEST (Quality Education for Sarangani Today) staff a...

Banlibato Primary School

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) - Pupils of Banlibato Primary School pose outside their classroom with their QUEST (Quality Education for ...

By horse

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Quality Education for Sarangani Today (QUEST) volunteers, with their guides from the community, transpor...

Early morning reading

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Grade III pupil John Mark Blel reads his new reading workbook before going to Banlibato Primary School. ...

Flag raising

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Banlibato Primary School pupils and teachers attend their flag raising ceremony Thursday, June 25, befor...

Kiangkos Primary School

›
ALABEL, Sarangani (June 29, 2009) – Pupils show their grateful smile after receiving the reading workbooks distributed by QUEST (Quality Edu...

Blaan traditional practice

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (June 17, 2009) – Blaan men and women demonstrate the kasfala, the tribe’s traditional way of conflict resolution, at t...

Tahaw dance

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (June 17, 2009) – Male dancers perform a tahaw dance (bird dance) which, in Blaan tradition, symbolizes prosperity or h...

Tribal parade

›
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (June 17, 2009) – Barangay tribal councils lead the tribal parade Wednesday, June 17, during the town’s 2nd Tribal Day ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Best-dressed carabao contest

›
MAITUM, Sarangani (May 7, 2009) – This carabao named Boi S’adaf (Princess of the West) is the entry of barangay Upo’s Upo Valley Multi-pur...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Tboli community

›
KIAMBA, Sarangani (May 4, 2009) – The Offsourcing Team poses with T'boli villagers in Falel during the delivery of rice, used clothes, s...

Social Responsibility

›
KIAMBA, Sarangani (May 4, 2009) - A vacation for the Davao members of a US-based outsourcing company take social responsibility to the mount...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Blaan Culture: An Interactive Session for the Asian-Pacific Heritage Month 2009

›
The Alpharetta Branch Public Library in partnership with Galing Foundation, Inc. and AccessPhilippineAtlanta.com invites you to celebrate As...
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Check for emergency resettlement

›
MAITUM, Sarangani (March 5, 2009) – A Tboli mother in Kipalkuda (now barangay New La Union) receives a P10,000 check Thursday, March 5, fro...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Blaan rider

›
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (February 28, 2009) – A B'laan horseman joins the celebration of Kalilangan Festival and 70th founding anniversary F...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Tug of war

›
KIAMBA, Sarangani (February 13, 2009) – Ken-Ken Juan (in yellow shirt)overpowers his opponent and declared as champion of the "Sudol de...

Tboli courtship dance

›
KIAMBA, Sarangani (February 13, 2009) – Members of the Lemuhen Cultural Dance Troupe performs the "Madal temelek", a Tboli courts...

Pole artist

›
KIAMBA, Sarangani (February 13, 2009) – Michael Sagam crosses a 15-foot rattan pole which is a tribal contest known as "Kametay Luas...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Arjho
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
A Tubad of the Blaan tribe of Southern Mindanao, Philippines.Former employee of the Provincial Government of Sarangani serving as the manager for the Luntiang Lumad Project(LLP) which was later made into a comprehensive Indigenous People Development Program (IPDP).An advocate for cultural development,natural resource management and good governance. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management, Institute and trained Climate Reality Leader in Atlanta, USA. Arjho lives in Atlanta since May 2006 and is married with two children. She actively serves in non-profit organizations in Atlanta.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.