CARAGA IPS BENEFIT FROM GOVERNMENT’S ROAD CONSTRUCTION By Jennifer P. Gaitano Since the start of construction of the Cabadbaran-Puting Bato-Lanuza road in year 2015, the Mamanwa tribe has also vacated their former places and started living on a nipa hut along the highways. These are the Indigenous Peoples (IPs)
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from the mountainous areas in the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Sur, wherein insurgency was the main problem. With this project, the ancestral domains of the IPs are now accessible, and it gives hope to the IP communities, as well as
to the next generations that their culture and tradition be known to other people. According to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), many of the IP communities have already benefited from the government’s road
