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ZAMBOANGA CITY – ORGANIC farming is now gaining ground among this city’s upland farmers, following a wholistic intervention done by a university-based organization, rendering synthetic fertilizers and deadly chemical-packed pesticides a history. But shifting of organic farming from traditional farming practices would not have been successfully adapted without first empowering farming communities through a specially-designed [...]

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THE Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP), the youth volunteer arm of Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ), was recently honored as a national finalist in the Search for the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations of the Philippines (TAYO). The search is a project of the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) Awards Foundation conducted in collaboration with the Office [...]

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ZAMBOANGA CITY – IN a place where violence thrives faster than economic activities, the lives of individuals stagnate. Worst, it even stops them from achieving their goals and dreams for better life.“This is what encourages us to work more, to put more emphasis in guiding local people that amid these difficulties there is hope,” Miriam [...]

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Zamboanga City – RELIGIOUS leaders of the city’s 800,000 Muslim and Christian population to include ethnic communities led a two-hour parade downtown in the morning of November 25 that marked the start of the local celebration of the annual  Mindanao Week of Peace.More than 20,000 students and teachers from public and private schools, civil society [...]

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