With these threats making it difficult for them to stay in their ancestral lands, Lumad students and teachers fled to different cities such as Cebu and Metro Manila. It is in these urban areas where they continued their education inAccording to the Save Our Schools Network - Cebu , Lumad students arrived in Cebu in October 2019 and were first housed by the University of the Philippines - Cebu community.
“They [Lumad] talked about how happy they were being in USC and how thankful they were of the volunteer teachers,” Johanna Cabeje, a Carolian, said. spoke about the Lumad’s plight. Volunteers from the Tulong Kabataan Network, in partnership with the SOS, also celebrated Christmas 2020 with the Lumad, giving them school supplies as gifts.
When Alcala asked the 21-year-old Lumad why he wanted to be a lawyer, Jomar said that at first he wanted to be a teacher. He changed his mind when he experienced repeated harassment. Alcala shared how Jomar wanted to fight for his rights, and for Lumad's ancestral lands and their tribe. A typical day in the retreat house started at 5 am with morning zumba. Then, the Lumad students attended classes.
The kids organized beauty pageants and cheerleading competitions for fun. Once, they initiated growing a vegetable garden but it didn’t go well since the soil was not fertile enough.
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