At six ‘o clock in the morning Neneng and Sharon from the PRRM picked us up to start our tour around the area of Cavite. Sharon is actually an English marine biologist who now lives in The Philippines. First they took us to a reforestation project. Here they plant new Mangrove plants to stimulate the fish productivity and also to get the Mangrove back again. This is in itself a natural boundary in case of i.e. typhoons and floods. They plant the Mangrove and learn the local community there how to take care of them. They also introduced us to the chief of the community who was really kind and pleased to meet us. After that we drove to a landfill the PRRM and other NGO’s and organizations are demonstrating against. It causes in many ways big problems as landslides and pollution, effecting the natural environment. It’s also against the governments own policy because they made the area too large and too close to a river, which will directly infect the water system of the downstream situated village. Next we visited two women who strive to eat and culture more organic local vegetables. They want to set up a program to learn people how to do this, so they can practice this at home in their own backyard. After this we went back to Manila and they arranged for our bus trip the next day to Naga, near Legaspi. We could spend the night in the dormitory at the PRRM building, and we had a lovely evening with them on the roof terrace.
Fisherman boot
Landfill
interview Neneng
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