For two consecutive days, DRR Practitioners from Montalban, Rizal and Brgy San Bartolome, Bagbag, Novaliches, Quezon City embarked on a Lakbay Aral Tour with Buklod Tao in Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal. The logic behind this undertaking is to stimulate learning via direct community to community exchanges.
In this visit, Ka Noli and some of the officers of Buklod Tao first gave an historical account of the development of their people’s organization narrating how through basic organizing they were able to stand up against a giant construction firm whose operation threatened to destroy their environment.
Right after the short presentation, they took the DRR practitioners to see their various projects that spanned the range from early warning systems to fiberglass boat building to tetra pot and bag making to the manufacture of organic soil and container gardening.
The DRR participants from Montalban and Novaliches and the hosts from Buklod Tao both declared that community to community learning exchanges is long over-due in teaching and inspiring others to build disaster resilient communities.
