Tandaya Foundation marks 15th anniversary
CATBALOGAN, Samar – After over a decade of environment interventions, the Tandaya Foundation, Inc. continues to pursue its effort on environment rehabilitation.
Tandaya Executive Director Jose “Don” Mabulay shares his concern about the threat of today’s global concern – the climate change. “Global warming is in our utmost priority, in fact we in Tandaya are relentless in lobbying and actively participating in various environment-focused organizations. Floods, El Niño and typhoons are on its abnormal occurrence, and all boils down to what Mother Earth we have — an injured one,” Mabulay said during the Tandaya anniversary celebration.
“Forest conservation with livelihood framework is today’s main thrust of Tandaya. We call it ‘threat-focused livelihood’ wherein we identify the necessary livelihood initiative vis-à-vis the ecology situation, and from there we draw the project framework,” he added.
A World Bank-led consortium of development agencies held a technical writing competition where Tandaya won two major prizes. One was the project concept, entitled “Panibagong Paraan,” and other was the Policy Proposal formulation.
Meanwhile, Tandaya’s founding executive director, Charo Nabong-Cabardo, continues to extend her support to the organization. Although she now has a wider organizational group called Samar Island for Peace and Development (SIPPAD), Cabardo is always on Tandaya’s side, extending assistance if needed.
“When we created Tandaya as a foundation in 1994, it was just a mere calamity volunteer, two years after we were already partners in the European Union-funded WESAMAR project. We established a track record fast,” Cabardo said during the anniversary celebration.
One of the development partners attending the occasion was Sustaining Agri-Aqua Ventures, Inc.-Samar (SAVE SAMAR) represented by Rev. Fr. Cesar Aculan of the Social Action Center (SAC), Diocese of Calbayog.
“We are one of the long-standing partners of Tandaya. We were during WESAMAR days; we are still today. In fact, we already have a response to their advocacy regarding climate change. Some of our projects intend to substitute red meat like the eucheuma production,” he said.
“In our studies, red meat contributes largely to global warming, starting from the production of the feeds, to the emission of methane gas from animal manures,” Fr. Aculan said. (Gerardo V. Acaba)
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