Aetas of Mariveles, Philippines

The Peninsula Ecosystem and Health Foundation, conducting a community building activity with Aeta schoolchildren in Mariveles, Philippines.

There is an existing school within the community and there are about 50 students in all. Two classrooms hold students from grades one up to grade six.

We occasionally conduct medical missions and provide medicine for the community.
We also often come with donations-clothes, school supplies, etc and in part this activity was a way of creating an incentive for participation.

Our foundation is looking at introducing ecohealth approaches to health in the Philippines... it is an environmental approach to health using a method of transdisciplinarity.

For questions or more information please comment, send a message or email me at ecohealthpeninsula@gmail.com

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Indigenous
• community
• people
• Aeta
• Aetas
• Negritos
• Mariveles
• Bataan
• Philippines
• nature
• ecohealth
• ecosystems
• learning
• schoo

[everyoneisjealousof]

SO CUTE!!! no offense but the lady teaching the kids sounded kind of retarded, a two year old could say what she came up with

[3rdworldvoice]

@everyoneisjealousof lol YOU are retarded, most of these children are at a preschool level and we have to explain to them in the simplest way we can.

[D1adriano]

Re-education. Not conditioning that the white man brought 2 us.Lucky my family are not lost and still hold on to their tribal roots. The Tinguians and Aetas are becoming very few. We still dance arround the fire, share food and live off the land. Whats better than choosing when to eat sleep and work. We just need to be LEFT ALONE!!!

PEOPLE ARE SAYING TO TEACH THEM ABOUT AFRICA. WHY?

WHEN PHILIPPINES IS THEIR HOME!

If they taught us all what they know we would all be very enlightened indeed.

[3rdworldvoice]

"If they taught us all what they know we would all be very enlightened indeed."

EXACTLY. Very true. Thank you!

[Pro2zoa]

The blind guides the blind. How they will walk?

[3rdworldvoice]

@Pro2zoa you are so incompetent it's funny.

[3rdworldvoice]

And it is HILARIOUS how you completely misunderstood the lesson we were trying to teach them, we are there with these people to ENCOURAGE them to go back to THEIR roots. NOT to go to the doctor every time they are sick, but to make use of their traditional methods of healing.

You don't even know what "ECO" means haha you should really sit down and listen to this children's lesson or at least look up the word you might learn a thing or two about grammar, too.

[lbhot22]

@D1adriano i disagree partially you do need to know about your african roots you would have not been in the philipines without the slave trade

[ThePinkblueworld]

@D1adriano they do not want to be left alone. if they did why the hell do they come down the mountain to find work. wouldn't they be staying up in the mountain and just live there. it only goes to show that they want to learn and work and live a normal life where they can eat a daily meal.

[ThePinkblueworld]

they are talking about ecosystem so they can learn to protect themselves from malaria which is the 1number killer in areas like these.

[ThePinkblueworld]

From what I heared everyone started off from africa. We were once black. If you were white now, 500,000 or more years before your family was black.

[nikaoam]

@filipino1nDaUS BTW, there are certain European ethnic groups (the Finns, the Lativans, the Hungarians, the Basques, etc.) that, though they possess all the physical features of "whites", are genetically very different from most white Europeans. Yet they are still viewed as "whites" by the entire world just based on their physical appearance, not DNA.

So if WHITE-SKINNED HUMANS CAN BE UNIVERSALLY VIEWED AS "WHITE" BASED ON LOOKS, NOT DNA, WHY CAN'T BLACK-SKINNED HUMANS BE VIEWED AS "BLACK"?

[nikaoam]

@filipino1nDaUS "where did you talk with them?? in harlem????"

I personally knew a young Filipina lady who was half-Aeta who attended the same university as I did. I also developed a few contacts some years ago from the "Black Planet" website as well as here on U-tube. & THEY TOLD ME THEY WERE IN FACT "BLACK". Are you saying they were all lying to me?????

[macramman]

@filipino1indaUS see with your own eyes or are you going to believe someone with a worldwide record of lying.There are report lies in scientific reports all over the internet. The recents ones dealt with swine flu. I remember a tagalog pinay here in NYC telling me that her mother told her that black people eat people, so some Aeta may say they have nothing to do with Africa. Learn to connect the dots. Don't let schooling interfer with your education.Get out of the Colonized Mind Matrix.

[macramman]

@filipino1indaUS gorillas in Africa. Whatever your colonizers give you always include a "TROJAN HORSE"; just read a lil history if you dont believe me. After they invaded my country in 1915, they were having hard time with the Kakos(freedom fighters), they ask to have talks, they dragged the talks long enough to buy out a traitor.Look at what they are doing to Phils now. Then it was kill all boy over 10yrs old and the water treatments. Are you going to believe the common hair and black skin you