PMN FamPics for March: Learning

I was late for this but I’d still like to share some photos for the Pinoy Moms FamPics

1. That’s me (left) during an interview with a farmworker’s wife. LEARNING with the PEOPLE is one of the better ways of LEARNING ABOUT LIFE.

2. My baby boy LEARNING how to walk @ over a year-old. Quite late they say… I don’t mind and I don’t care as long as he learned to..

3.  My second daughter shows LEARNING to put on her sandals @ 2 years old … take 1… take 2!

My New Header Photo

I took this new header photo when we visited a Community-Based Forest Management area in Nueva Ecija. Here is the full picture. More photos are in my Free Coupons blog

S*x Education in Rural Philippines

S*x education or talks is still quite taboo in the Philippine society much more in rural areas. Last month, I had the rare opportunity to discuss this with a group of mothers from a farming village during an exposure trip for our foreign visitors. The conversations/ sharing gave us a wealth of information on how this topic was viewed in the eyes of the simple Filipina mothers in rural Philippines. Here is our story:

Motherhood and the OD Dialogues

I was invited to a Dialogue early this week at SEAMEO Innotech in Quezon City. It was organized by the Community-Based Natural Resources Management Learning Center with the theme OD Dialogues: Learning from an Emergent Future. It was a culminating activity for a three year project in Organizational Development among non-government organizations for community-based coastal resources management. However, the participants to the project and the dialogues were not only those who are involved in CBCRM. Some are into other natural resources management and some in feminist groups as well. The “celebrities” (what we were called because the activity was also a celebration of the project’s gains) were diverse and this resulted to lots of ideas and stories.

The activity may have been about OD, Learning and the Emergent Future but as I heard and observed, there were several references to motherhood. Concepts were explained by citing women and childbirth. When I prepared for a synthesis, I can’t help but think of childbearing myself. Again, another reference to motherhood.

A Working Mom’s OctoberFest

Finally, I can blog about all the exciting things I have done this month of October. I have loads of photos but I still don’t know how to place them here. Please visit my other blog, Free Coupons.