Scared, anxious for 18 days: Reflections of a Covid-19 Patient
I was a close contact of a family member who was found positive for Covid-19 three days after being swabbed by a nurse. I was scared and anxious and cried a lot but I was full of fighting spirit! We survived! How it started My husband told me that...
Debate on the Future of Development Cooperation
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) participated in the debate organized by organizations in the province of East Flanders, Belgium on the future of development cooperation. It was a well-timed debate in this period of...
Education in the New Normal: Modular Learning in Sagada
One of the sectors most shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic is education, affecting the lives of students in the country since March. Schools have closed and face-to-face classes have been suspended in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus....
Peasants of the Cordillera: Onward with the struggle for change!
The 21st of October is Philippine Peasant Day. On this day in 1972, exactly a month after declaring Martial Law, Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 27, the bogus land reform law by which the Dictator effected not the redistribution of...
Forced off the road: Drivers and traditional jeepneys
by Organisasyon dagiti Nakurapay nga Umili iti Siyudad The public transportation sector is one of the hardest hit sectors by the Covid-19 outbreak. The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) implemented during the lockdown’s early phase limited...
Lost livelihoods: ambulant vending banned
“Ti epekto na daytoy pandemya ket krisis. Haan kami nga makalako, awan panggatang mi ti kanen mi. Adda man inted ti gobyerno ket kurang. (The effect of this pandemic is crisis. We cannot sell, we have no source of income to buy food. The government...
Farmers battered by quarantine controls
by APIT TAKO The Cordillera continues to dominate the country’s production of temperate-clime vegetables, accounting for about 65% of national production. Around 300,000 people in the Cordillera region depend on the income derived from...
A tourist town in the time of Covid-19
By Kris Alya Tucked in the Cordillera mountains, Sagada is the so-called Shangri La of the North because of its breathtaking and extraordinary natural beauty. For several decades now, this town of Mountain Province in the Cordillera region has been...
Protecting the Last Line of Defense
by Community Health Education, Services, and Training in the Cordillera Region (CHESTCORE) The first coronavirus (Covid-19) case in the Philippines was recorded on January 30, 2020, and three days later the first death on February 2. On March 7,...
Statement by the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Marital Law
On the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines by then President Ferdinand Marcos, the women and men of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) joins the widespread call Never Again...
Statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 9, 2020 The women and men of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) join the rest of the indigenous peoples and their advocates worldwide in commemorating the 26th year of the International Day of the World's Indigenous...
Human Rights In The Philippines During COVID-19
Human Rights In The Philippines During COVID-19 Joanna K. Cariño 2019 Gwangju Human Rights Laureate April 30, 2020 Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations has said: The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency —...