CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Police apprehended several Aetas on April 18 near the Mount Pinatubo crater in Capas, Tarlac for alleged violations of local ordinances and national laws, including obstruction of public passage and unauthorized entry into an environmentally protected...
After seven years, a once-denuded mountain in the Philippines now boasts 62,000 trees. The Aeta communities of Yangil and Banawen in Zambales have restored their ancestral land through seven-year reforestation with MAD Travel, a social business for sustainable tourism. A comparison of...
Lady Anne Duya, a resident of Porac, Pampanga, has made her tribe proud by becoming the first female Aeta to pass the February 2024 Criminologist Licensure Examination (CLE). Lady Anne reportedly belongs to the native Mag-indi or Mag-antsi tribe. According to the National Commission on Indigenous...
TARLAC CITY – Around 300 Aeta children benefited from the feeding program conducted by the Armed Forces Northern Luzon for this year’s National Children’s Month. The Nolcom, through the 1st Civil Relations Group, Civil Relations Service, Armed Forces of the Philippines, in collaboration with...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) launched a digital literacy training for the Aeta community in Porac, Pampanga. (Photo courtesy of DICT) The five-day community-based training benefitted a...
A total of 35 Indegenous Peoples (IP) youth from an Aeta community in Porac, Pampanga finished a digital literacy program spearheaded by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) - Pampanga. DICT Pampanga (FACEBOOK) The project was in partnership with the National...
The use of buho (Schizostachyum lumampao) is central to Aeta cuisine. (DENR - ERDB) Technological advancements in food and agriculture have forever changed the way people eat, but high up in the mountains of Zambales, traditional food practices thrive strong among the Aetas. Central to Aeta...
Aspiring vice president Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan has gained the support of an Aeta community in Botolan, Zambales. AETA SUPPORT—Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan and Vice President Leni Robredo pose for a photo with the Aeta community in Zambales who declared their support to the tandem...
Special gift ideas crafted by the guards of Philippine heritage “Local crafts are the baseline of the creative economy, which will alleviate poverty and spur sustainable development,” HABI president and long-time purveyor of local goods, Adelaida Lim, tells Manila Bulletin. Who wouldn’t agree...
This Facebook page is making the holidays merrier for Aeta farmers in Pampanga If there is one food craze we still can’t get enough of throughout our pandemic time, it is the purple yam or ube . A produce locally grown in the Philippines, ube and its many forms have been part of Filipinos’...
Vice President Leni Robredo spent the second day of the certificates of candidacy (COC) filing not to make an announcement of her poll plans, but to personally supervise her Vaccine Express initiative at Barangay Santa Juliana in Capas, Tarlac for the benefit of the Aeta communities there. While...
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) welcomed Monday, July 19, the decision of an Olongapo City court to acquit two Aetas who were the first individuals to be charged as terrorists under the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020. (National Task Force to...
