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FTMW - Filipino Tribe Mission
Welfare
Mamanwa Pantukan. The
industrial tribe!
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- The Mamanwa
tribe which has settled down outside the small village of Pantukan in
Surigao del Sur, the tribe we call
Mamanwa east, has shown an enormous developed inventiveness in
spite of that they never had bent educated in school or had
a permanent settlement but, bent roaming around in the
jungle between their plantations. Until the new year of
2005/2006 the tribe has been roaming around in the jungle
without any permanent address. When representatives for the
tribe raised the question about the possibility to get help
with food and education for their children with the
president of FTMW Pastor
Morales, he said to them to consider the possibility to create a
permanent living, and as he added; -if we register your
children and receives a sponsor for them, how will we be
able to find you if you have no living any place?
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The tribe
observed this and we has now the privilege for the first
time in history (even if we are a small newly founded
organisation) to show a settlement created by the hands of
the Mamanwa tribe themselves.
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- Settlements for
Mamanwa exist both in Taganito and Urbitztondo as well, but
in these cases has a company built up the houses. On other
places has local government units contributed.
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The
land were they has settled down is owned by a man belonging to the
tribe of Manobo. He is very positive to that Mamanwa finally want to
settle down, why he has given them space both for settlement and
cultivation. |
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Mamanwa
builds their houses in two floor levels. The lower works as a living
room while the upper is a sleeping room. Under the sleeping room on
the ground they light up a fire which live coal keeps the mosquitoes
away but also keeps them warm during the colder night. |
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Mamanwa
uses a root that in the language Suriganon is called Koyot and in
the language Visaya is called Korot. This root is very toxic and
must be worked up before it is eaten. Mamanwa uses it as a basic
food like mostly Filipinos use rice. Filipinos in common is very
sceptic to eat this root since it is deadly if not correctly cooked. |
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On a secluded place in the
jungle between the village and the river is built a kind of
parboiling plant to prepare the root to be edible. |
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First step is to peel the root
and boil it, then it is held down in a hole in the ground wrapped in
banana leaves where it is kept for cooling down. |
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When
it is cooled down the root is packed in bags and carried over a
bridge of lumber down to the river where it is properly rinsed. |
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When this process is finished, the root is edible. Considering that
the members in the tribe is illiterate and never has received any
education at school, it is soon to understand that mans ability to
find solutions on problems is not only based in its academically
ability but is an unique gift in every person. |
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Land that has been prepared for cultivation. |
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