Livelihood education of IP learners
THE indigenous people ( IP) of the Philippines are the ones whose cultures came before the succeeding generations yet even if they among the older residents in this country in terms of ethnicity, some are left behind in terms of technology and there are those who are also left behind in terms of things such as livelihood as they stick with their usual forms of trade or (for an unfortunate few) trade what they hunt or gathered and get things that are little in value in return without them noticing that they got tricked.
With the needs, preferences, and situation of the world changing, it is ideal for everybody – including the IP – to keep up in order to survive or have an easier life.
I learned that adjusting to their situation helps in the success of providing livelihood education for our IP community.
If you could talk in their dialect or in the dialect, it is already a good start since not everybody is familiar with Filipino, English, and other languages.
Taking the time to know about their culture, making their culture as the basis on what you do and say around them, and respecting their culture helps in making a connection with them – a connection that helps make things easier when it comes to communicating with them because they are more likely to listen.
But the simplest but most productive tip is to make sure that what you are teaching them is easy to understand and the resources needed in production are easily accessible.
You cannot expect the IPs to go away
from their homes to perform tasks that are for the people living in rural areas unless they tell you they are interested in doing it.
To make the most out of what they have, they need to make sure that it is a skill they have (e.g. making tattoos) or the resources they have (e.g. the food, the plants, the vegetables, the fruits, the clothing, and the other things they are passionate and knowledgeable about).
Through providing livelihood education for the IP, we empower them with the skills that help them make money out of what they have or the new skills or materials they could use as well as use their livelihood to promote the culture of their tribe (the latter helping in the preservation of their culture in this modern day and age). ( Paid article)
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