Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Alamin, Knowledge Mangyan Devt 09 Mindoro Nickel

Alamin, Knowledge Mangyan Devt 09 Mindoro Nickel

Mangyan Culture Base Entrepreneur, a true relations































MANGYAN-ALANGAN PANDAYAN (BLACKSMITH) AND KALAKALAN CENTER

Respecting the Culture,
Guiding the Sustainable Community Based Development.
Help a step for an IP community based industry,
Help for an enhanced IP community trade system,
Help an IP community economy.





Mangyan-Alangan Culture Base Entrepreneur
Installation and Initial Activity Monitor






Amnay, Pag-asa, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro
December 1, 2009 – January 6, 2010
Paqueo PP
















Seed of Knowledge



The cooperative operations officer, the organizing expert, and the community development expert who always listened and talk to the Indigenous People said….

You can’t project your common development direction? You are confused of many external influences that affect your culture? Do you have any idea of development that will enhance your culture and livelihood? You need to live, you need to survive, you are part of the Philippine nation, and you belong to the human civilization. God provide everyone space and knowledge. Proceed to your cultural base livelihood and cooperation systems. You can treat us as your partners and we can be your guide to your dreamed development……

…… Regis MG.

































ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This Mangyan document acknowledges the Creator for a space of this event: “opportunities and knowledge were presented, and we decided to start for a change” - Onyo Calamita, Ramil Baldo.

The NCIP District, Provincial and Regional Office represented by Madam Eden Babatla and Madam Eden Cenon,

Walter Tolentino and Hector Aragones who were handling the video and camera.

To Jun Ramos of Radio Sablayan who also took documentations of Pasinaya and the Mangyan Amnay Pandayan at Tindahan operations opening,

The Team of CREDO in Sablayan and in Pag-asa,

The Team of SADAKI lead by Chairman Ramil Baldo who traveled the night of January 5, 2010 to visit Mayor Onyo Calamita and attend the Pamago-Pasinaya event and the Opening of Mangyan Pandayan and Sentrong Kalakalan,

To those entities not mentioned, who in one way or another provided space of peace for the event, we acknowledge your support and calmness,

From Onyo Calamita who convened the mangyan community in his sector-area: Ako ay napapasalamat, binigyan nyo kami ng puwang, panahon at respeto (I am very thankful you give us importance, time-space, and respect).


By the knowledge


















Array of Pictures:


The Instructor in action … Pastor Alavera


The Student at Work … Mangyan Panday, Sonny Calamita

The Student at actual work in his new shop…. Sonny Calamita








Mangyan Sentrong Kalakalan in its opening/ribbon cutting, at the first day of Operation …




















The IP Community United and thankful … Mangyan-Alangan leader and Elder Onyo Calamita with the rest of Elders… were thankful to the facilitators (IRPI), to the instructor and to the mangyan guardian (NCIP).

























The Mangyan Culture Base thanksgiving feast (Pamago/Pasinaya), with Onyo Conducting ceremony of Pig Sacrifice, and the other elders pounding rice at greater force to generate pounding sound to be heard at distance signaling other mangyans to gather and give contribution on knowledge, materials and blessings.





Mindoro Map: Relative Location of Mangyan-Alangan Blacksmith & Agroforest
Kalakalan Center






















From the spot map, the approximate total number of household that may converge in Amnay for Cutural Base Trading monthly is 140. To include other sites of Mangyan (usually under the Mangyan Mission, both Sablayan and Sta Cruz, the hh may approach 1000 (this datum suggested by mangyan may need field research to ascertain mass production of an entrepreneur. But for the purpose of the initial blacksmith activity, it is safe to project annual bolo consumption of 500 units approximately 4 units each household, at P250/bolo) .
Location of houses changes every two-years, may be because mangyans are nomadic. House abandonment is practiced on reason of death of a family member. The most updated houses info locations are those near the highway. The houses in the inner mountains locations are 2007 approximates of CREDO. Every house may have 2-3 couples.
As a trial map (locator), the top of this sheet is East and the right of the sheet is north (the right of the sheet is the left of the reader).







PREFACE

This paper is a documentation of initiated development of mangyan in Amnay. This can be reproduced and improved to succeeding editions on the purpose of updating events, development and interventions subject and relative herein (see pedro cyber).

This document does not defy initiatives of any other entities made for the development of mangyan. The intervention subject herein may enrich what was done. To all the indigenous people (IP) interested bodies, this documentation can be a reference of projecting IP social ways, their intent in life as human, and their assimilation to the mainstream of the society.

On Feb 2007, we wondered how mangyans are different from the subanen (IP of Zamboanga). Later, we understood that inherent culture differences are characteristics unique to a group- the reason of Philippine culture diversity, and ways of identifying them into distinct ethno linguist groups.

Our personal observation and understanding of mangyan identities are keys toward harmonious social interaction. We understand that we can directly relate with mangyan through food, health and other basic human needs. But on the drive of sustaining social relations without creating dependency, the Sablayan CREDO team, for nearly three years of interaction, took a keen observation and concluded a unique opportunity- “gulok”, the local term of bolo.

Martin and Pedro once heard with the Tagalog that a bolo to a mangyan is a value of his life. Lope Tolentino and Dionesio Tarinay of Pag-asa-Sablayan once said that a male mangyan is burdened with the whole weight of the earth if his gulok is lost: much better that a wife is gone than for his gulok to be taken away.

True, we verified it several times, that a male mangyan, once he goes down to town market for trade activities, he always bring with him his bolo encased in wood rope-tied to his waist. Another observation is in going to other places with security checkpoints on controls on bladed tools and weapons: mangyans always carry with them in their body or baggage a bolo, but to fall on an event of holding on the departure area because of bladed weapons violations. We observed it and they mangyan felt he is alienated when confiscated with his sole life property, the bolo. Our comparison is this: Gulok to Mangyan in Mindoro, Kris to Tausug in Sulu.

Martin conducted a personal research on where the mangyan sourced their quality gulok (bolo). He found one in Sto Nino, Sablayan in the name of Pastor Alavera, a self Employed Blacksmith. Pastor Alavera said that more mangyans are ordering to him gulok (of any design) than the tagalogs. Mr. Alavera said the mangyans even ordered to him various steel bladed tools (big gulok, flat end bolo, knife, hatchet/ax, and blade of spear for use in their hunting.

Martin discussed with and requested Mr. Alavera to be a trainer to a group of three of mangyan-alangan who can start their own mangyan blacksmith industry. (We could not speculate, but Mr. Alavera at his 40s may be thinking of passing his technology to interested people in Mindoro).

Further, Martin projected a mangyan trade impact ones a mangyan blacksmith is established. Martin consulted the Amnay community of his information of the Gulok needs of Mangyan and the possible trading impact among mangyan and tagalogs in Amnay. Thereafter, The Mangyan Community of Amnay, under the leadership of Onyo Calamita, consulted the NCIP (the Community Service Office at Sablayan and the Regional Office of NCIP). The NCIP was glad of the information and said that the intervention in gulok making is culturally acceptable since gulok is as important as food and life to mangyan. Without the gulok, their tools for their farm and livelihood could only be stones which are disadvantageous on matter of handling and time productivity. Without the metal substance gulok, mangyan may be named as stone-group of modern times.

The NCIP also lauded the establishment of Mangyan Base Kalakalan Center which is complementary or even an activity impact from the Mangyan Blacksmith Shop. The Mangyan Kalakalan center will be the display shop of their blacksmith produce (bolo and other related metal tools), and the agroforest farm produce. At the mangyan level: the agroforest activities can now be easily sustained with the blacksmith production, and the blacksmith industry can be sustained from the demand of agroforest farm tools (hard metals-steel fashioned tools).









































CONTENTS

Title Page
Seed of Knowledge
Acknowledgement
Pictures (relocated as upload)
Location Map (relocated as upload)
Spot Map Indicating Sitio and Houses (Relocated as upload)

Preface

I. Introduction

II. The Letter of Mangyan-Alangan of Amnay to NCIP (Sulat ng Mangyan-Alangan sa NCIP, Kubo Pandayan dated November 16, 2009).

III. Mangyan Requested Intex for the Tulong Relative to their NCIP letter Nov 20, 2009.

IV. Blacksmith Training Nov 21-Dec 8 2009 Training for Blacksmith, 4 Mangyans: Sonny Calamita Son of Unyo Calamita, Buldozer Pulwasay, Major Suday,

V. Nov 22, 2009 – Construction of Kubo sa Pandayan at Pahina System-material assisted

VI. November 30, 2009 Organization Meeting of Mangyan Alangan ng Amnay Sentro ng Kalakal (trading Center). Other Succeeding meetings.

VII. December 1, 2009 started the construction of the mangyan trading center, pahina system–material assisted

VIII. The need of Single Source of Development Idea by Martin (directly translated to english

IX. The January 4, 2010 Meeting of the Junta

X. The January 5, 2010

XI. The January 6, 2010 Opening of the Mangyan Pandayan at Sentrong Kalakal.

Annexes
Policies and Documents of the mangyan culture base cooperative management.
Products and Finacial Monitors format exercises.





I. Introduction

Gulok (bolo of any design) is the tool in the daily living of mangyan, i.e., brushing, weeding, garden, farming, tree cutting, charcoal making, weaving, house making, hunting, fruit and crop harvesting, minor forest products harvesting, and wild yam gathering. It is produced in a blacksmith, an old type and culture old metal industry producing hardened blades and tools at manual mode of utility. Summary of iron-steel (worked hardened metal) tools used by mangyan in the whole time of their life that can be produced in blacksmith industry are the following:

Gulok - bolo for cutting and clearing forest and farms
Flat end bolo – bolo for weeding usually used by women maintaining garden and farms, and collecting wild vine yam (ube type) in the wild/bushes and forest.
Home Knife – small size bolo for home kitchen slicing use
Spear Blade – head blade of mangyan spears (diamond design) used in their fishing and terrestrial hunting
Hatchet – small type ax used in cutting of big trees
Ax – a big type wood slicer and stem cutter

When mangyan adopted settled farming, he uses more metal tools which are relative or far figured to bolo. These are plow, harrow, cycle (palay hand harvester), hoe (sarol), pick mattock, shovel, and rake.

The other handtools and their uses in the settled farm of mangyans:

Punta (Blade of plow) – the semi triangular hardened portion of the plow blade that point-hit the ground.
Rods of harrow – the collector of weed and bulk soil breaker which need to be hardened (temperature treated) in the blacksmith shop.
Hoe (sarol) – unsharpened blade that seemed to be a flat end bolo but with a meter length wood handle with uses similar to pick mattock, and often a backyard garden cultivation handtool.
Shovel – a semi-parabolic pointed metal plate with metal or wood handle used both in the garden and farm soil cultivation and excavation.

Though not a common idea, but gulok and other iron metal hand tools can be point of interventions that may sustain our relations with the mangyan without creating dependency, instead enhances their livelihood and culture. The mangyan need tools for their agroforest life. They may make a blacksmith shop, they may acquire training, they may source waste metals-steel, and they may produce as many tools as they need. The blacksmith shop, to suit for the mangyan necessity of gulok and hand tools, need to be operated by a trained mangyan individual. The Pandayan shop produces the tools which then sustain the livelihood of mangyans. The harvest of mangyans will be then sold to their kalakalan center. As the tools wear away, the sale from their farm harvest provides the means of buying another tool which they will use for their daily livelihood. The price of the tools that range P250-400 per unit can run the mangyan blacksmith business sustainably. The Kalakalan center which caters both the marketing of the pandayan and agroforest farm products will then grow. Since it is run in cooperative and IP culture-principles, the mangyan community cooperative members will benefit in terms of product easy access and patronage refund.

Martin designs a community base Blacksmith Shop and Mangyan Agroforest Trade Center.

The idea was processed in the community. The Alangan Mangyan community coordinated the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) and the same was favored. The positive signal of the NCIP prompted Martin to design a Mangyan Blacksmith Training, a Mangyan Blacksmith shop and Mangyan Kalakal Center in Amnay under a mangyan culture of cooperations.













































II. The Letter of Mangyan-Alangan of Amnay to NCIP (Sulat ng Mangyan-Alangan sa NCIP, Kubo Pandayan, dated November 16, 2009). - (relocated as upload)












III. Mangyan Requested Intex for the Tulong (help) Relative to their NCIP letter Nov 20, 2009. (relocated as uploas)











IV. Blacksmith Training Nov 21-Dec 8, 2009. Training for Blacksmith of 3 Mangyans: Sonny Calamita, Buldoser Pulwasay, Midyor Suday,

The idea of blacksmith shop for mangyan came to an open but very important discussion with the joke that a bolo to a mangyan is as valuable as to his wife. Martin conceptualized, and personally conducted research on the source of quality bolo of mangyan. He found one in Occidental Mindoro, specifically the Alavera Blacksmith Shop in Sto Nino, Sablayan. With the personal conclusion of Mr. Alavera, a self employed blacksmith, he said that the Mangyan can proceed with their own tools making via technology transfer.

The person guide (trainer) would be the one known to mangyan and serving the mangyan for many years in providing tools. Mr. Pastor Alavera, a Blacksmith Operator in Sablayan is the one decided by Martin and the Mangyan leadership to conduct blacksmith training to Sonny, Buldoser and Midyor.

The training venue was the Blacksmith shop of Mr. Alavera. The training was a live-in mode for 10 days spread to three weeks at 3 days per week. Late in the process, the training extended to four weeks on the reason of refreshing Sonny Calamita to the techniques in high temperature works.

Mr. Alavera showed his side that the mangyan have the right to initiate there own development. “If I can be an instrument of developing a mangyan blacksmith shop, then why not? I am only a migrant of Mindoro. I came from Cebu. If there is an avenue to help them I will do. Mangyans are my clients. But anyway I still have other clients, the Tagalog.

The Manyan (Alangan) trainees:

Sony Calamita – at his 30s, he has a family, and has three children. Sony possesses intelligence in all work adaptation, decisive when it comes to work production, resolve issues in community assembly, and proposes solutions for community discussion. He is a potential leader of Mangyan-Alangan. He leads the blacksmith training, having no absences.

Midyor Suday – at his 30s, Midyor is occupied with family needs, and finished only half of the blacksmith course.

Buldoser Polwasay- at his 30s, Buldoser has other priorities, and he only finished half of the blacksmith course.

The training was a bulk course of blacksmith. But for the purpose of documentation, the activities and time duration can be broken down into the following modules:

1. The Blacksmith Shop – the trainees are oriented about blacksmith work, the products, the raw materials, the tools, the shop safety, and work safety. 1 hr.
2. The products and services – the products are bolo, knives and all other steel tools and blades. The services the blacksmith can offer (other than producing blades) are the repair of plow, grinding of blades, making of handles and casing of tools. 1 hr.
3. The Tools, their specific use and safety measures– 1 hr
4. The Raw Materials – 0.5 hr
5. Safety in the Shop – 0.5 hr
6. Making the Clay fire Assembly – 2 hrs lecture and design, 2 days drying.
7. Design of Gulok (small medium large) – 0.5 hr
8. Panday Proper Module 1 – Hands On Technical Assisted Module: design a bolo, heating the material, hammer forging/hitting of materials (2 bolo units for 1 day)
9. Panday Proper Module 2 - Work by Own Module: design a bolo, heating the material, hammer forging of materials (2 bolo 1 day)
10. Panday Proper Module 3 - Work by Own Module: design a bolo, heating the material, hammer forging of materials (6 bolo 1 day).
11. Panday Proper Module 4 – Temperature Blade Hardening, Filing and Grinding
12. Panday Proper Module 5 – Repair of Plow Blade (1 day). One plow was repaired. Dismantling the plow, annealing the plow blade, making new plow blade, oil hardening and carbonization of the blade (hardening), finishing and grinding the blade, reassemble the blade to the plow frame.











































V. Construction of Kubo sa Pandayan (Blacksmith Shop)

On November Nov 22, 2009, the cooperating team of Mangyan in Amnay constructed the Kubo ng Pandayan. They’d done the activity thru an alayon/Pahina with meal support.

The sloping land of 5 m x 7 m near the highway was flattened via human labor. They constructed the shop with their own labor. The got the posts and needed wood from their forest, and from their backyard tree farm.

The light materials (corrugated steel roofing) and meals were requested by the community to the Intex (reference: request of assistance dated November 20, 2009).

The mangyan and CREDO-Intex (thru Martin) designed installing blacksmith shop contents and tools similar to the shop of Mr. Alavera. (see Mr. Alavera Shop: IV-Blacksmith Training Nov 21-Dec 8 2009). Martin tools and materials canvass in Sablayan, Calapan, San Jose and Manila.

The tools identified were:

o Bull hammer (2 for size 9, 2 for size 6, 2 for size 3 and 2 for size 2)
o Clip (4), use to hold hot metal
o Anvil or the alternatives such as knee level wood mounted Solid Steel hammer pad, half wood mounted 8-12” diameter Circular hammer pad 2 feet diameter
o File – use to hand grind the metal
o Power Grinder – electric grinder for the surface finished of the metal
o Open Oven – coal burning chamber open to the air
o Chair / bench - resting and inclining bench
o Quencher - water container, usually a cut tire. Water use is usually fresh and clean to produce quality hard blade.
o Bolo design – pieces of bolo designs made of wood, use as reference of metal bolo design and dimension.
o Air pump assembly – air pump operated by hand, supplies air to the burning chamber that heats the metal to soften for easy hammering and workability.
o The Burning Chamber - an open oven mounted on a larger table equipped with hot containment material on two sides only and open on narrow sides for metal feed movement and upper open for easy charge of fuel and exit of flue gases. Although this burning chamber losses more heat to the air, but it is the only workable machine for the mangyan to easily maneuver in heating the metal unto workable temperatures.
The red color is still hard to hammer to change form, reaching and approximate temperature of 600-800*C. The yellow color is soft to hammer approaches 1200*C an open oven mounted on a larger table equipped with hot containment material on two sides only and open on narrow sides for metal feed movement and upper open for easy charge of fuel and exit of flue gases. Although this burning chamber losses more heat to the air, but it is the only workable machine for the mangyan to easily maneuver in heating the metal unto workable temperatures.




VI. November 30, 2009 Cooperative Culture Meeting of Mangyan Alangan ng Amnay for Sentro ng Kalakalan (trading center)

The first cooperative culture meeting was done to organize and to discuss the mangyan type of business. The individuals present in Amnay community meeting were 31 heads of the family. They came from Amnay, Maiba, Macatolyo, Pandurikan, Manango, Pakpak, Eagle Pass. Their names are listed below.

1. Midyor Suday
2. Dosario Molipasyo
3. Buldoser Polwasay
4. Dongari Balite
5. Minyuwan Sarainta
6. Maximo Casesed
7. Maximo Cabre
8. Obespo Mabuhay
9. Danny de Leon
10. Mama Calamita
11. Usgad Suday
12. Marcos Ramos
13. Mandalaman Cabato
14. Macmac Arseso
15. Almiro Barakulan
16. Bong Calabio
17. Malo Castillo
18. Ansel Castillo
19. Panganay Urita
20. Mateo Fernandez
21. Ema Cabri
22. Timoy Grigorio
23. Onyo Calamita
24. Panganay Mabuhay
25. Junior Baldo
26. Sonny Calamita
27. Joepen Bautista
28. Hawini Pag-ibig
29. Andres Bonifacio
30. Sarigo Calamita
31. David Magahdu

The number of individuals decided to start a Mangyan Blacksmith and Sentro ng Kalakalan (Market Center) were only 20. They decided to put up share capital to start their business in Amnay. Although the amount will be determined in the next succeeding meetings, the members agreed on the following:

1. Put up share capital for Sentro ng Kalakal and blacksmith. Others suggest systems like selling of camote, banana, and others to raise an amount for share capital
2. They agreed to form a cooperative later and be registered.
3. They agreed that their initial operation should follow the cooperative practices even if it is still not a registered cooperative.

The names of the convened deciding 20 that contributed capital were:

1. Arsiso, Macmac - 200 peso
2. Balakidan, Almero - 300
3. Baldo, Junior. - 300
4. Batista, Joepen - 100
5. Calamita, Sonny - 50
6. Mabuhay, Obispo - 300
7. Pag-ibig, Albano - 50
8. Fernadez, Mateo - 100
9. Midyor, Suday - 100
10. Calamita, Onyo - 100
11. Calamita, Macmac - 100

Total 1,500

The others suggested that they will provide capital in the succeeding meetings/weeks/ months. It is expected that more will contribute and the sum increases along with time.

The Cooperators established their initial business organization structure.

Business Team:

Manager – Sonny Calamita
Secretary – Edna
Treasurer – Rocena Baroles
Credit Committee – Onyo Calamita
Audit Committee – Ansel Castillo

The Mangyan business team shall be the focal training body. In capability interventions to run a business, a mangyan cooperative culture shall be enhanced. They will be showed with the alternatives they experienced daily and in their livelihood such as hunting, wild yam gathering, farm and house making. They will be taught how to market their products with due culture respect, and they will be guided how to contact external body of businesses and markets.

Board (Junta)

1. Maxino Cabri
2. Junior Baldo
3. Macmac Fernadez
4. Mateo Fernadez
5. Ansel Castillo



December 12, 2009 meeting of the Junta of Mangyan-Alangan of Amnay.

The meeting on December 12, 2009 by the junta (board, interim) was done for the purpose of obtaining input from Martin Regis (Martin is an expert in cooperative business operations and experienced in IP sector for more than 10 years). In IP level of understanding, he conveyed the culture of cooperative business which is very similar to everyday living of cultural communities, i.e., physical exchange of goods and services: (barter or palitan ng produkto. alayon, pahina, ambag/contribute, impok, gawaing pangkaramihan, desisyon ng karamihan, at iba pa sa kultura ng mangyan). Culture of cooperative business is always the focal repetition of ideas to instill that the business the mangyan is creating is their own and from their own culture and practices.

The Junta members present were Maxino Cabri, Junior Baldo, Macmac Fernadez, Mateo Fernadez and Ansel Castillo (the junta is at full attendance). The fully trained blacksmith manager of Mangyan, Sonny Calamita was also present.

The Junta explored on what and how would be the nature of running the Mangyan Blacksmith Shop and Kalakalan Center. (Process documentation translated in English)

The Mangyan Blacksmith and Agroforest kalakalan Center shall be run by following the operation ideas of cooperative.
a. It is a fact that mangyan bought and always buy all their farm tools.
b. It is a fact that some who had no cash, exchanges personal resources and products for a bolo.

These are the main ideas that a blacksmith business can be run by mangyan sustainably. And it needs to be documented.

The Kalakalan Center will be the prime tool of converging the sustainability of the Pandayan and the enhanced/diversified agroforest economy of mangyan.

In the future, you will be registered as cooperative as you wish (Martin).

- Walang utang kahit sa anong kondisyon (no loan of any ways)
- Puwede mag deposito ng kalakal (you can deposit products at agreed percent share/retention).
- Puwede mag-impok (you can make savings)
- Puwede magbarter o palitan ng produkto (you can exchange goods with goods in the Kalakalan center, but the goods subject for exchange terms should have commercial value).
- There are many other policies you may wish to support and sustain your entrepreneur.

Lahat ng mga pangamba kailangan gawan ninyo ng batas na magiging gabay sa inyong operasyon at maging dokumento sa inyong samahan/kooperatiba at maging bahagi sa pag-usbong ng inyong kultura. Intindihin ito: huwag kayong kikilos kung ang inyong polisiya ay labag sa kultura at sa paghanapbuhay ng mangyan. (All of your plans have fears. You need to have policy/laws, regulations that will guide your operations and become a document of your cooperative and become a part of your enhanced culture. Understand this: you should not move if your policies are against your culture and affecting your livelihood).

(Question) Tanong ni Maxino Cabri, Libon, at Onyo: Sir paano ba ang pag-ambag ng kapital sa gawain naming ito? (Sir. how do we raise and contribute capital to our business?).

(Answer) Sagot: Gagawa kayo ng batas pagbigay pundo at paano pagagalawin ang pundo para sa inyong negosyo. Puwede ang pagbigay ng pundo paliit-liit. Kahit peso araw-araw puwede basta mayroong papasok na puweding gamitin na capital sa inyong negosyo. Sa pamamahala ng pundo, kailingan ninyo ng pinagtibay na:
- Batas pagdagdag na pundo kahit sa maliit pero palagian ang pagbigay.
- Batas sa pamamahala ng pundo – walang utang.

(Question) Tanong ni Sonny: Sir paano ba ang pagpapalakad sa pandayan, ilan magtatrabaho o puwedeng kasama ko? (Sir, how do we run the blacksmith shop, how many will be the workers?)

(Answer) - Ikaw na may alam ikaw ang magpapalakad ng pandayan. Puwedeng kang kukuha ng dalawang katulong at bigyan mo sila ng porsyento sa bawat magawang gulok. Bigyan mo rin ng porsyento ang inyong kooperatiba/samahan. Mag-impok ka ng sarili mong capital mula sa benta. Sa pandayan meron pang ibang gawain tulad ng paggawa ng polohan at sakloban ng gulok. Iyan ay puwedeng ituring ninyo na sarili na ninyo pero huwag kalimutan ang palagian pag-impok na puweding kunin sa iba pang gawain tulad ng polohan at sakloban. (You, Sonny, who have the knowledge in blacksmith, shall manage the blacksmith shop. You may employ 2 helpers who are trainable and you shall give them percentage from the sale per unit of tool produced by your team. In the blacksmith shop there are other related works, i.e., making handle of any tools and wood case of bolo. The pay of that shall be your own or to the maker. But don’t forget to save and contribute to your cooperative from any form of your income. Remember, your cooperative is the point of your business and product marketing: you should sustain it by all means, within the bound of cooperative regulations and parallel to your culture. You should make regulation in your blacksmith shop).

- Batas sa pandayan (Regulations in the blacksmith shop)
§ Batas Safety sa pandayan (Safety policies/regulations)
§ Batas tao sa pandayan (Workers regulations)
§ Batas presyo ng produktong pandayan (Product Price regulations)

Marami pa kayong batas na gagawin. (There are many other policy/laws, and regulations you should make)
- Batas sa kalakalan (Business Policy)
- Batas pagpamiyembro (Coop/Asso Membership Policy)
- Batas sa mga produkto darating at ibenta (Policy on products: deposition, barter etc.)
- Batas sa tindera (Policy and regulation of business shop attendants)
- Batas sa Sentrong Kalakal (Policy of the Business center)
- Batas sa Tindahan (Policy in the Store)
- Batas Lista sa Bilihan (Policy on listing and inventory of products (daily-weekly-monthly)




VII. Construction of the Mangyan Sentro ng Kalakalan (Mangyan Trading Center)

On December 1, 2009, the mangyan group of Amnay headed by Onyo Calamita, in their decision of culture base entrepreneur, constructed their trading center at cooperative labor (samahan system) assisted with meals (rice & fish) from Intex Resources Phils Inc.

The Sentro ng Kalakalan shop was designed to suit to the mangyan culture of trading. The shop has an open product display section and stock depository area (dry farm products, handy crafts and metal tools). The shop has a comfort room and water system making it sanitary. The organic material remains in their kalakalan is utilizable in the IRPI agroforestry nursery for organic/humus fertilizer processing to be used as bagging and growing media of agroforest seedlings.

Amnay is a strategic site for the mangyan trading. Its attributes that may help sustain the sentro ng kalakalan in its business activities are:

- Location. The Kalakalan center is immediate to the Mindoro West Coastal Highway near the Amnay Bridge at Pag- asa
- Convergence of routes of mangyan Amnay to mangyan Ibolo approximately at 35 kilometers. The site is the stop over of Mangyan alangan, and all the engagement site of mangyan mission.
- Agroforest Nursery site serving Mangyan needs.
- Potable water is available for drinking needs of the people.
- The site is cross road of upland development projects of DENR from Sta Cruz to Sablayan























VIII. The need of Single Source of Development Idea by Martin (directly translated to english)

Mangyans are cornered to confusions if more people talk to a development intervention. In this type of intervention which the mangyan projected, Martin negotiated that in the mangyan culture cooperative business, he will be the only one to deal with.

“For the culture matters, the only agency the mangyan can talk to is the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP)”.

Promises will have no room in this discussion of ours. You decide to your need in living, let’s discussed if it is fitted to your culture and if it is sustainable. Then we can help in training and skills development to let you run your dreamed works and development. Also in this discussion of yours with me, there is no room for free assistance. Everyone must contribute to your group development. You should put up capital, sell your products, obtain percent gain, impose self saving, and impose reinvestment.

A mangyan would have difficulty running business if it is not of mangyan culture and livelihood related and not to mangyan interest. But if a business trained mangyan can run a culture base business in mangyan community, then he or the business can sustain. - Lahat ng mga tao ay mayroong pangangailangan. Kung ang pangailangan ko ay nasa sa iyo, itoy bibilhin ko o palitan tayo. Ang salitang bili at palitan ay yan ang sinabing hanapbuhay. Kapag akoy paligiang bibili sa inyo ng aking mga kailangan, yan ang sinabing palagiang hanapbuhay nyo at itoy tuloy tuloy sa panahon na ako ay hindi pa patay at ako ay bibili pa sa iyo. (If I continuously buy from you my needs, you will continuously have sales, and that is one of your sustainable livelihoods).

Also, surplus products from your shop, farm, hunting, mangyan crafts, and others, need to be marketed externally. We can facilitate finding partners of marketing your surplus in the cities or any locations which need your products.

My role, our role is to facilitate and help in the capacity building of communities, like yours, for you to be ready in your responsibilities to change, for you to develop your livelihood and community (ethno linguist group), for you to be aware of your role in nation building, your responsibility in environmental protection and maintenance of the home earth, and your role in the sustained development of human civilization.













IX. The January 4, 2010 Meeting of the Junta (Iterim Board)

The January 4, 2010 meeting of the Junta (Interim Board) with Martin G. Regis was attended by the Majority Members of the Junta and the Business Management Organization.

The subjects were the following:

- the Capital raised from December to January
- the total membership that contributed Capital
- the opening of the Mangyan Pandayan and Sentro ng Kalakal by January 6, 2010.
- the items to be bought for the display and business start up of the Mangyan tindahan and sentro ng Kalakal.

The capital raised from December to January 4, 2010 reached to P3200 (on December it only reach P1500).

There were more than 20 items identified to be displayed in the Tindahan section of the Mangyan Sentro ng Kalakal.
- Asin
- Mantika
- Sabon panlaba
- Sabon panligo
- Papel
- Lapis
- Ballpen
- Noodles
- Candy
- Pako
- Bagoong
- Patis
- Soy Sauce (Toyo)
- Toyu, daing
- Bigas
- Tinapay, biscuit
- Tabaco / maskada
- Posposro
- Lighter
- Battery ng flashlight or transistor radio
- Shampoo
- Tsinelas (slippers)

(Martin) Itong lahat ay siguro akong may ilan na hindi muna mabili kasi pagkasyahin natin ang inyong pera, at iba pang contribution. Pero sa magiging benta at tubo nito ay ibili natin uli at siguro yong iba ay mabili na rin sa kalaunan.

I am sure that the items you enumerated will not all be purchased. But some which are very important in your daily lives can be purchased. But as your sales grow daily, all those items may be purchased and displayed in your tindahan latter.


X. The January 5, 2010

The activity in this day was focused on the planning of the Jan 6, 2010 Pamago and Opening of Operations of the Mangyan Pandayan and Kalakal Center. (Pamago, pasinaya – thanksgiving, acknowledgement)

- The Amnay Mangyan Cooperative Community decided that prime to the business opening of the Pandayan and Kalakal Center is the PAMAGO. Pamago means Pasalamat or pasinaya ceremony and feast that would last one day. The Pamago would sometimes be extended to 3 days or one week if more knowledge, issues and learning need to be shared and discussed and if resources allows. The community decided that the Pamago Ceremony would start 10:00 PM of January 5, 2009 and ends 5 PM of January 6, 2010.
- The community suggested three sacks of rice for entire event, a big pig, a small pig for morning cultural thanksgiving ceremony, a chicken for the Pandayan and a chicken for the Kalakal Center.
- The community sought the help of the CREDO of Amnay for preparations. (late in the afternoon of this date, the CREDO organized few manpower augmented with the Pag-asa tanod and the womens group).
- The ceremony in the morning of January 6, 2006 was facilitated by Mayor Onyo Calamita with the Presence of Amnay Elders, the NICP Sablayan and other guests.

The morning meeting was adjourned with the following tasks:
- 5 mangyans in-charge in the cooking of food by night of January 5, 2010. On reason of sanitation, food cooking and distribution was supervised by Noel Otero, Nestor Jumalon, and others from CREDO Sablayan with the help of Pag-asa Tanud and Women sector .
- A group of mangyan gathered fuelwood,
- A group of Mangyan cleaned the cooking tools,
- A group of Mangyan attended to their cultural ceremony needs.

At 7:00 PM of January 5, 2010 the 150 kg pig was slaughtered with the mangyan cultural ceremony of pig slaughter for sacrifice and food for all. The blood of the pig was poured to the perimeter of the mangyan pandayan and kalakalan center. In that Mangyan cultural ceremony which lasted 30 minutes, the 15 Amnay Mangyan Elders, lead by Onyo Calamita, uttered recollection of natures power, thanksgiving to the author and giver of life. They also mentioned acknowledgements to responsible people and entities that help them- the Government, the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP), Intex Resources Philippines Inc (IRPI) and others that help them directly or indirectly in their daily struggle in life.

At 9:45 PM of January 5, 2010, the Pamago activity started. Onyo initiated the Rice Pounding/Pagbayo sound- A communication signaling that the Pamago started, and from that time to the twilight of the next day everyone are invited to share in the rice pounding, share and discuss culture and mangyan family knowledge, share experiences in cropping and harvests, share resources, discuss development plans and marriages, discussed and resolved problems on land culture or family conflicts, discuss technology and crops discovered, discussed old products and new ones, and many others. All of those sharing and contribution enhances the Mangyan Culture and Knowledge, and plan for the good in the rest of the new year- new time.

Mayor onyo organized the community numbering 20 families initially at that night. At the lawn of Amnay immediate to his house just near the river bank of Amnay, the families assembled into groups (10 groups), and discussed shared their past days, and past years experiences. They took their discussions in Mangyan Language. The most uttered term was pamago/pasinaya or pasalamat. They took coffee and discuss things the whole night.
















































XI. The January 6, 2010 Opening of the Mangyan Pandayan at Sentrong Kalakal.

January 6, 2010 was the opening of the Manygan Pandayan and Sentro ng Kalakal. The cultural thanksgiving ceremony was lead by Onyo Calamita, the leader of Mangyan in Amnay Pag-asa. The ceremony was attended by the Mangyans of:
- Amnay headed by Onyo,
- Maiba headed by Sonny
- Macatolyo, Pakpak, Manango headed by Matinggo, and
- Pandurukan Headed Tanuy Mintu

The total attending Mangyan (less the children) is more or less 100. Majority are in the Amnay Lawn at the shade area near the House of Onyo Calamita, the Pamago Event space.

The ceremony took an hour from 11:30 to 12:30 Noon. The attending culture responsible personalities were:

Eden Babatla = NCIP Sablayan
Jun Ramos = Radio Sablayan
Leaders of the Samahan Apo Dia Alangan Kisluyan Inc (SADAKI),
- Bombay Baldo
- Ramil Baldo = Chairman SADAKI
- Virginia Maligaya

The Staff of the IRPI-CREDO Oriental and Occidental Mindoro attending the ceremony were:
Martin G. Regis
Erning Caranzo
Noel Otero
Pedro Paqueo
From Barangay Pag-asa, the attending sectors were:
- The team of Barangay Tanud
- The Women Sector headed by Nida and
- The Farmers Organization headed by Mariano Tolentino
From barangay San Agustin the attending sectors were:
The Barangay Council of San Agustin headed by

From Pandayan Technology Giver of Sablayan
- Mr. Pastor Alavera – Sablayan Quality Blacksmith Sto. Ninyo
- Mr. Armand – Blacksmith Assistant of Mr. Alavera

Central of the ceremony was the business opening of the Pandayan and the Tindahan of the Sentrong Kalakalan. The Sentrong Kalakalan Facility will accommodate volumes of mangyan produce in the next months. The produce will be treated to be bought and sold, or bartering.

The first attending salespersons were the mangyan high school students (high school scholars of IRPI). The were Rosena, Flor and Edna. Because the students have classes, they can only serve the tindahan during Saturdays and Sundays. The Junta is planning to install a tindahan knowledgeable mangyan to man the Sentrong Kalakal on the regular working days. It will be their agenda in the Junta meeting by January 9, 2010 (Saturday).

At the end of the day in after all the business opening activities, the sales of the Tindahan section of the Sentrong Kalakalan ng Mangyan reach P935. The items sold were salt, detergent, mascada, candy, sugar and coffee.

We have observed that mangyan really have saved money and bought things from their tindahan. If the agriforest activity will be enhanced, more products they can exchange with to their Sentro ng kalakalan, and more money they can generate / earn to buy their other needs.

This document marked this date, January 6, 2010 the beginning of the mangyan of Amnay assimilated and participated in the regular economy and society of Sablayan and the Philippines with their prime products: a) the gulok, b) their agroforest materials displayed in their culture cooperative exchange center or the Sentrong kalakalan ng Mangyan. This document also accounted the dates beginning November 2009 to January 6, 2010, the period when the idea of mangyan culture base cooperative entrepreneur was cultivated with the gulok as the fulcrum.

This document can be regularly updated by any interested person, with added information and monitor of the economic activity of mangyan from January 7, 2010 and beyond.

The CREDO and the authors of this document welcome editions and enhancement of this book in the succeeding years. After all this is the document of Mangyan. Our only request is we necessarily declare fair and transparent information for the enrichment of mangyan culture, enhancement of livelihood, food security of Mangyan-Alangan of Amnay, and their fair assimilation to the mainstream of the Philippine society.

This document lacks some concrete benchmarks:
1. the income base of Mangyan. Although it is clearly seen from our individual eye that mangyan lives below US$1 a day, we suggested that income benchmark shall be generated. This will have difficulties however because if you gather benchmark with all formalities of studies, you need to coordinate the NCIP and may proceed for FPIC process for any benchmark purposes.
2. there is a lack of inventory of bolo in the mangyan community. An statement was common that every mangyan beginning age of 14 has his own gulok
3. there is a lack of valuation of farms, houses and properties of mangyan
4. there is a lack of information on current trade/market practices and contacts.
5. lack of health data
6. lack of education data
7. lack of agroforest crop production data
8. lack of complete population and household data
9. Lack of infrastructure support data

For lack of benchmarks of any type, we suggested that researchers need to generate them to closely monitor the incremental economic progress/development and cultural preservation/ enrichment of mangyan.

If in case it is really difficult and impossible to attain first hand data, the secondary data from the barangay, municipal, provincial and regional government offices may be sufficient as benchmark to monitor incremental progress of this Amnay Mangyan Alangan intiatives.



Annexes

Policies and Documents of the Mangyan Culture Based Cooperative Management (Regis & Otero).

Mga Kapasyahan at Alintutunin na ipapatupad ukol sa Paninda (Consumer Store)
Kabuuang Alintuntunin :
1. Ang bawat kasapi ng samahan ay mag-aambag ng puhunan sa halagang napagkasunduan.
2. Ang Ingat- yaman ay mahigpit na pinagbabawalan na maglabas ng pundo na hindi dumadaan sa proseso, lalo na ang paggamit ng mga balangkas (official ) na hindi malinaw ang pagkakagastusan.
3. Mahigpit sa pagbibigay ng Cash Advance (Inilagak na halaga) maliban sa pangangailangan ng pamimili ng paninda, dapat kinakailangan ang detalye at aprubahan ng project manager.
4. Nararapat na magbigay ng ulat sa lahat ng mga pinagkagastusan (liquidation) tulad ng :
a.Pagkatapos ng pamimili ng paninda
b.Magbibigay ng resibo (official receipt) sa lahat ng nabili bilang patunay ng ulat.
5.Magbigay ng direktiba sa mga kinaukulan tulad ng ingat –yaman, tagasuri at mga pinuno lalo’t higit sa perang pumasok at lumabas sa tindahan at buwanang ulat sa kalagayan upang malaman ang tunay na na pananalapi ng samahan .
6.Magkakaroon ng buwanang inbentaryo at ulat sa lahat ng mga ari-arian ng samahan.
7. Kailangang sundin ang mga sistema sa pagsasaayos ng paglilista o(recording).
8.Ang natutukoy na balangkas at mga empleyado ay dadaan sa pagsasanay upang higit na malaman at magkaroon ng sapat na kaalaman ukol sa sistema ng negosyo at samahan.
Diretsahang Alintuntunin ukol sa Paninda:

Mahigpit na ipinagbabawal ang mga taong hindi kasangkot o empleyado ng tindahan.
1. Mahigpit na pinagbabawal ang pag-uutang ng mga paninda sa kasapian lalo’t higit sa mga hindi kasapi.
2. Ipinagbabawal ang systema ng pagpapa-utang na ang kanyang garantiya ay ang trabaho na hindi pa naisagawa at produkto na hindi pa naani.
3. Mahigpit na ipinag-uutos ang pagkakaroon ng inbentaryo ng lahat ng produkto bago ibenta O (display).
4. Pagkakaroon ng arawang pagbibilang ng kita ng tindahan at ito ay ibibigay ulat sa tagasuri bago ibigay sa ingat yaman.
5. Dagdag paghihigpit na kailangan ang arawang pag-iinbentaryo sa lahat ng mga stock o paninda lalo’t higit kung iba ang magbabantay sa susunod na araw. (refer stock card procedure). At itoy ibigay sa susunod na magbabantay.
6. Kinakailangan na ang tindera at ang ingat yaman, ay may limitasyon sa paghahawak ng pera sa halagang P _____________ gagawin ang arawang
pagbabangko ng kita.
7. Kinakailangan na magbukas ng depository bank para sa samahan.
8. Ang lahat na mamimili at kasapi ng organisasyon ay kinakailangang magkaroon ng sariling aklat o libro na listahan para maging basehan sa pagbibigay ng balik tangkilik bawat taon.
9. Ang libro o aklat ng samahan ay kinakailangang bukas sa lahat ng mga kasapi ng organisasyon.
10. Ang lahat ng mga kasapi ay mayroong karapatang humingi ng ulat at pagpapatupad sa lahat ng mga alintuntunin na nakabatay sa napagkasunduan.
11. Ang lahat ng kasapi ay kinakailangang dumalo sa pagpupulong na gaganapin sa unang lunes ng bawat buwan.
12. Ang proyektong pinagsimulan ay bukas para lahat, sa anumang mga panukala at mungkahi upang mapalago ang pagpapatakbo ng samahan.

Mga Alituntunin ukol sa Pandayan:
1.Mahigpit na ipinagbabawal ang pagpapautang sa lahat ng magpagagawa ng gulok at iba pa.
2.Panatilihin ang kalinisan sa paligid ng pandayan.
3. Ipinagbabawal ang mga bata at matanda o lahat na mga tao nag magstandbay sa pandayan upang maiwasan ang aksidente.
4. Magbigay ng biyente porsiento (20%) linis na kita sa mga nabibiling mga gulok maliban sa mga repair, subo at hasa.
5. Ang Samahan ang siyang mag suporta ng mga bakal ayon sa pangangailangan ng panday.
6. Kung sa costumer ang bakal 20% pa rin ang ibibgay sa samahan.

For products and financial monitors, follow folder files titled Coop Enhancement Amnay

For pictures and video conversation in vernacular-original-unedited, follow DVD file labeled “Salamat sa Puwang”. This Document and Related files are available from Pedro Paqueo, Martin Regis, Onyo Calamita, NCIP, and IRPI in DVD.