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Creating Development and Peace Through Fisheries Training |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Edgardo O. Castro |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 882 Words, 5,648 Characters |
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In the southern reaches of the Philippines archipelago, the sea surrounding the islands of the Mindanao region remains an invaluable resource whose rich marine life, in principle, could anchor a thriving economy. Yet parts of Mindanao have suffered from an abject, intractable poverty that feeds an armed insurgency and an at-times active war against the country's armed forces.
In 2004, a ray of hope in the struggle against poverty in the region's war-torn areas was sparked by the unlikely visit of ten high school teachers from the island of Jolo to the Philippines National Fisheries Center in the city of Dagupan, more than 660 miles to the north on the island of Luzon. The teachers, all women f...
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...l of Fisheries has become a role model.
"This program should be replicated a hundredfold," says de Venecia. "Some people might have thought that hope for success in a place like Sulu is impossible. But with courage, the right attitude, and proper training at places like the National Fisheries Center, the impossible can, in fact, happen."
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