by Homer Balibay | Jan 22, 2019 | Good School
The Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) community outreach program for indigenous peoples received two international awards from the London-based Investors in People. LPU was recognized for Excellence in Social Responsibility, while LPU executive Dr. Marilyn...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Oct 19, 2018 | Good Pinoys
Cordillera native Joan Carling has been awarded as a United Nations Champion of the Earth for her life’s work of fighting for environmental and indigenous people’s (IP) rights. Carling was recognized with the UN Award – the UN’s highest environmental distinction...
by Geraldine Kay Rodriguez | Apr 17, 2018 | Featured, Good Business
The United Nations Development Program reported in 2013 that the Philippines is home to 14-17 million indigenous peoples (IPs), each group with a distinct cultural flavor and language. This diversity helps make the Philippines phenomenally rich in culture and...
by Mark Anthony Toldo | Dec 18, 2017 | Featured, Good Business
AKABA Ltd. Design Co. seeks to not just promote indigenous peoples’ culture but also help alleviate poverty by promoting loom-weaving. Forty-year-old Liwayway Caparas from Ilocos Norte is witness to the noble work that the two-year-old Filipino travel bag and...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Mar 5, 2016 | Good Balita
Manila journalist Inday Espina-Varona has won the Hildegarde Award for writing, “They’re killing teachers and children, Mr. President.” The veteran writer’s piece written as a letter to the country’s highest official, spoke about the plight of the Lumad...
