Foot Forward: 'Rediscovering God's Amazing World' Part 2
Few days ago I posted the "part 1" of the segment of my original theme "foot forward". This is intended for how we do things with our adopted Matigsalog Tribal Community here in Davao City, Philippines.
Our Purpose
We begin with our sole purpose why we help them. From my previous post about them, they are one of the recognize indigenous people here in Mindanao (one of the three big island divisions of the Philippines). Yet, they are still lacking in education and awareness. They have 36000 hectares of ancestral domain and some of those lands were been sold to some investors who later on established resorts. These resorts has been well monetize due to it's natural atmosphere and unique view. People are forcing their way just to experience it. There are lots of visitors every Friday-till-Sunday. Entrance fee is Php 50 or $1... So, if you have 200 visitors during those days... just do that math and that's their income. Imagine that the income will solely be on the tribe... they will never be a poor and hungry tribal people. This is how we came into the picture and praying to make it as a "model tribe" to inspire other tribes and help them too.
-HillsView viewing deck - Php 50 entrance fee
-People are forcing themselves to visit there resorts. The road is not accessible by lower type vehicle, just 4x4 pick-up-trucks or skylab (habal-habal). Here's my video riding skylab or habal-habal.
And due to poverty and lack of awareness and most especially idea how to manage there land, selling it is the only option to have food in the table.
At first chieftains or we call them DATU were very skeptical with the idea and with that mind set we got few hands to help it started. However, eventually as they saw the success of the three resorts, some have made up their minds and helped us.
And we don't stop there. We are more blessed and excited that we received such blessings. Last week post of the first crowdfunding, we have generate SBD 97.744 and Steem 105. These amounts are from the post accumulated since November 1 and some was donated directly to us. We are humbled with your generosity and kindness in helping our cost.
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Those are some amazing photos, the view of the mountains in the back were breath taking. Great content. Will check back again.
Thanks a lot @spinx23 for the support.
We're preserving all 36000 hectares ancestral domain they have.
As much as possible all their resources leads to sustainable income.
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Thank you for the extra information about the tribal community.
Does the tribal community get any of the money from the resorts on their (former) land?
2 out of 3 resorts, they have yearly "royalty fee" they also sometimes hired them for man power however
resorts gain 100x than what they have sold out of the land. As I remember, 1 hectare of land is almost the same value of 1 sack of rice ( Php 2500 or $50 ) and one of the resort claimed more than what they bought 20 years ago (since there's no landmarks were given during that time).
That's awesome. I love the idea of using good business sense to help people out of poverty. Your example and success is bound to change the mindset and there by their overall all conditions. Awesome work. God bless. :)
I am humbled that you understand the situation.
Yes we need to kill "social injustice" here and create more compassionate world out of it.
This will be our model tribe that we will showcase to help others too.
God bless too and thank you for your support!
No thank you. Your passion is both inspiring and convicting. I pray a blessing over you and everyone involved in your mission. I hope your becomes a spark that ignites the hearts of many. :)
How kind your words are.
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This is great work, what you do @dante01 can help change lives for the better. Thank you for such selfless act ^_^
Thanks a lot. sino sino pa ba magtutulungan.. tayo tayo din. God bless!
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