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Reaching Indigenous People (BADJAO TRIBE) : Youth Community ProgramIntroductionThe purpose of this project proposal is to present a youth community program for the Badjao tribe, which will promote unity, gender equality, peace, and harmony among the young Badjaos and cultural sensitivity for other i...

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Reaching Indigenous People (BADJAO TRIBE) : Youth Community Program

Introduction The purpose of this project proposal is to present a youth community program for the Badjao tribe, which will promote unity, gender equality, peace, and harmony among the young Badjaos and cultural sensitivity for other individuals with a different culture. This project will serve as a prompt solution to the problems and issues that the tribe is encountering. Most people know the Badjao tribe, considering that most of them are scattered in the street, outstretching their arms for alms and living in poverty. However, they may be a very known tribe, but they lack government service and assistance. In Davao City, especially before the Covid Pandemic, the lifestyles of young Badjaos in the street are truly perceptible, wherein some of them even fight over alms given by some individuals. And during the pandemic, people are afraid to encounter Badjaos because of the fake news about a Badjao infected with Coronavirus has escaped isolation facilities. They have been experiencing discrimination, and their culture and tradition are not also well-respected by people because of their bad images and unpleasant and filthy looks. Hence, it is discernible that there is no unity, harmony, and peace in their tribe, and the vast majority do not show cultural sensitivity when they encounter them. And that is all due to destitution, their living condition, being uneducated, having no proper manners, and no stable income. The youth community program will promote unity among the young Badjaos, unifying them towards a shared objective, which is to acquire new skills and knowledge to improve their lifestyles and reduce their vulnerability to societal issues. The project will conduct seminars to educate the young Badjaos about sexual and reproductive health and empower them with lifeskills education, assisting them to become more knowledgeable about societal issues, specifically teenage pregnancy, and guide them into making the right decisions. It will also hold a livelihood program similar to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), which will train young Badjaos to gain new skills to attain a sustainable livelihood. It will contribute to their success as adults in the future, which will help them solve poverty to improve the living condition of their tribe. Rest assured that these seminars will not affect their cultural beliefs and tradition, considering that one of our purposes is to promote cultural sensitivity in which we will be respecting the Badjao culture, and there will be no cultural biases throughout the whole program. The chosen target participants are 50 young Badjaos from Barangay 23-C Davao City, considering that the place has the biggest Badjao Population in Davao and young Bajaos are more prone to societal issues and have a major role in the future condition of their tribe. The program will also promote gender equality as it is open to every young Badjaos of any gender wherein everyone has an equal opportunity to be educated and learn new skills. Subsequently, it will assist in building a strong bond among the youths in their tribe, and once they acquire unity, equality, and sustainability, it will help us promote and achieve harmony and peace for the Badjao tribe, which is one of the purposes of our program. This project proposal will explain the problems and issues that the Badjao tribes are encountering. We will also indicate the project objective, the plan on how to execute the project, and the approximated cost and schedule of the program.

Problem Badjao is a sea-faring tribe composed of indigenous people that live in outrageous poverty. Due to their nomadic lifestyle, they are elusive and beyond the reach of government assistance, in which they are considered to be a marginalized and neglected tribe, which is the poorest ethnic group not only in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia (Zanetti, 2021). The source of their income is fishing and collecting pearls; however, due to rising piracy and domination of corporate fishing, the majority of them were forced to leave the water and stay ashore (O'Callaghan, 2018). As a result of the changes in the environment and loss of livelihood, they experienced a big adjustment and destitution, in which they struggled in finding a reliable source of income. According to O’Callaghan (2018), 97 percent of the Badjao tribe were illiterate and uneducated. Most do not know any works besides fishing and collecting pearls (Demecillo, 2017). Hence, finding a stable job and livelihood turned out to be difficult for them; consequently, most send their children to the streets or cities to beg for alms, which is still prominent in our society today. Furthermore, due to poverty and being uneducated, another problem has arisen in their tribe. It is observable that as young Badjaos scatter in the street, most teenage girls are already carrying their babies at a very young age. Early marriage is exceptionally rampant in their tribe, in which some Badjao women are already married at the age of 13-18. Most marry at a young age merely because of being constrained by their parents, in which they believe that it will secure the basic needs of their children, the fear of Badjao teenagers that no one will marry them at an older age, and due to cultural beliefs about arrange and early marriage (Mangarun, Agao-Agao, Gimena & Tumanda, 2018). These teenagers are uneducated, wherein they are not empowered by life-skills, reproductive health education, and family planning; subsequently, they become parents at an early age, which deteriorates the poverty they are experiencing. Due to these arising problems experienced by the Badjao tribe, an immediate solution must be planned and provided to help and support them.

Objectives ● ● ● ● ● ●

Giving IP (Badjao) youth an opportunity in strengthening education Widens the idea of Youth Development Program to avoid societal issues (teenage pregnancy) Educating Indigenous People on Sexual and Reproductive Health Giving an opportunity for knowledge and skills enhancement (giving them vocational programs) Giving ideas how to manage themselves in a proper manner to face everyday living Directing their paths in a good way (helding some programs like Tesda)

The objective of this project is categorizing how IP Youth Community program for Badjao Tribe is clearly significant for them, helping them to achieve how normal individuals act in an everyday living, also to give them seminars in strengthening their knowledge, skills ,education and the way they act normally. Giving them an opportunity to have a certain plot of program like Tesda and livelihood training.

Solution/ Project Plan We conduct this kind of program (IP YOUTH (BADJAO) COMMUNITY PROGRAM)

because we noticed that our government has lacked attention to this kind of youth tribe. We can see them in the streets asking food to eat and some of them are starving because they don’t have money to buy food. It is clear, most of the badjao youth are facing teenage pregnancy. We can see teenage girls / minors carrying a baby in the streets asking for food or “manlilimos”. Categorizing each impacts in developing their knowledge with a firm foundation especially the youth of IP (BADJAO) community, addressing how to handle and avoid the challenges of especially teen-age pregnancy. The First part of our plan is gathering some individual research about IP youth communities (Badjao), gathering data to use as an instrument for the essentiality for our program plan. Then, in the Second part of our plan we will conduct an area survey in Barangay 23-C, Davao City for the Badjao Community.

The Third part of this plan is Area Visitation, Our team will visit the area of the Badjao Community. Observing how they interact with other people. The Fourth part of our plan is the Youth and Vocational program. Since our team, individually assigned in what particular programs that we are gonna provide to them, each program directs to their knowledge and enhances their skills like in what particular skill in each badjao youth is inclined. In this kind of platform we are focusing on Youth development programs addressing individual’s engagement r and enhancement. For example, “One badjao youth is more into arts” well our team will conduct art’s program plan which interconnect with the field of strengthening the knowledge and ideas with one’s badjao youth, as interconnected also with the field of education. The Fifth part of our program plan is , Sexual and Reproductive Health Seminar . Since our program is also focusing on the rising cases of teenage pregnancy , we will conduct an essential seminar for the Badjao youth in controlling themselves . Giving the knowledge and understanding of how really important to have family planning. Categorizing each individual's health securities before engaging sexual interaction. The Sixth part of our program plan ,conducting a discussion forum and program seminar, in developing youth (badjao) each individual’s mind setting in how to avoid teenage pregnancy, especially in their community. People often noticed , the youth of badjao community it’s relation to its public matter in having teenage pregnancy. That is why our group conducts an communicative effort on categorizing it’s own essential aspect with helping our fellow youth in how to control themselves.

All of these program plans will be used and will be followed to it’s published schedule as we indicated in this paper plan / program plan.

Costs and Resources

Transportation Rate or Gasoline

Php 3,000

Program Materials

Php 3,500

Snacks

Php 5,000

Total

Php 11,000

Our project is costly a little bit; however, the project and the benefits of the materials and proposal are worth the expenses. This kind of program is essential for each IP (BADJAO) youth to discover something better for themselves. All of this pricing of the total cost of our program is worth providing. We will be gathering these resources from an online donation drive through creative pages in online platforms to communicate our project and spread the advocacy.

Schedule

Activity

Date (2021) and Time

Research and Data Gathering

March 25- March 31 at 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Area Survey

April 1- April 3 at 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Area Visitation

April 4 at 1:00 PM -5:00 PM

Youth and Vocational Program

April 5 at 10:00 AM-12 AM

Sexual and Reproductive Health Seminar

April 5 at 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy Discussion and Forum

April 5 at 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Conclusion The protected acknowledgment of indigenous people groups and the lawful insurance of their way of life and personality is a central pre-imperative towards accomplishing a more

impartial and supportable advancement deferential of variety and the particular and aggregate privileges of indigenous people groups. Supporting the aggregate privileges of indigenous people groups to keep up and use their well-being situation in the quest for their entitlement to well-being, just as maintaining state commitments to give accessible, available, worthy, and quality consideration, without segregation is the right way to deal with advance sexual wellbeing and regenerative rights. Debilitation and separation, remembering backhanded segregation through obliviousness for public arrangements and financial plans, are two fundamental underlying elements forestalling numerous indigenous people groups from appreciating sexual and regenerative well-being and rights. The plan and conveyance of socially fitting well-being models and administrations, with full investment of indigenous people groups in their plan, have added to an expanded utilization of a more serious level of fulfillment with public administrations. The detailing of cement and target sets of intercultural well-being guidelines has helped indigenous coordinate points of view into well-being models just as in observing and assessment frameworks, consequently putting forth more operational and quantifiable government strategy attempts and responsibilities in this field. These mediations have decreased maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS pervasiveness, and rate among ladies and female teenagers. Expanded admittance to family arranging, gifted birth chaperons, and crisis obstetric consideration have been demonstrated to be among the savviest intercessions to improve the maternal and sexual well-being of indigenous ladies and young ladies. Friend instruction programs that include indigenous young people and youth are viable approaches to handle sexuality and communicate information and abilities on sexual and conceptive well-being and how to decrease the dangers of unsafe sex, even though they are customarily viewed as numerous restrictions. These dangers incorporate undesirable young pregnancies and the compression of HIV and other explicitly sent contaminations. Also, sexual well-being is about the anticipation of brutality, misuse, and distress related to pathetically broken connections. The passionate commitment with indigenous people groups in the plan of strategies and projects has added to an expansion in indigenous ladies, young ladies, and youth to basic bundles of sexual and conceptive well-being, HIV anticipation and sexual orientation-based brutality administrations, primarily in provincial and underserved territories.

References Demecillo, J. M. (2017, August 9). Badjaos fight to keep own identity. Retrieved from Philstar Global Corp: https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebunews/2017/08/09/1727414/badjaos-fight-keep-own-identity Mangarun, A. J., Agao-Agao, L. A., Gimena, D. R., & Tumanda, A. (2018). LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BADJAO FEMALE WHO ENTERED EARLY MARRIAGE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY. Malaysian Journal of Medical Research 2(4), 39-44. doi: 10.31674/mjmr.2018.v02i04.005 O’Callaghan, M. (2018, August 9). The Story of the Badjao Tribe. Retrieved from Serve: https://www.serve.ie/the-story-of-the-badjao-tribe/

Zanetti, J. (2014). About Babina Monare Badjao Learning Center. Retrieved from Empowered: https://www.empowered.org/Babina-Monare-Badjao-Learning-Center/leadership...