Our team is currently preparing to assist IDPs from Marawi City, after a terrorist led siege caused the displacement of more than 400,000 of its inhabitants. Through Garden to Garden Releaf, we hope to provide immediate support for food security, water, and waste management using permaculture solutions. Through our friends from the United Religions Initiative, we are piloting at the Ma'had Al-Nor madrasa which turned into an evacuation center housing 160 families at 501 perso

Two months since the Marawi siege, many of the 400,000 displaced people are still eating relief goods. Regular consumption of MSG and preservatives laden donated canned goods and instant noodles can hamper health and well-being for the IDPs in recovery from trauma and stress. Sometimes they can buy vegetables but only if they have money to set aside. We are supporting with an alternative in a small way, in partnership with Pailig Development Foundation, Inc. and OrganiKo, its

Witnessing Trees is our pilot project for food security, regenerative livelihood, and ecosystem restoration. We are working with Balawag National High School in Tabuk, Kalinga province in partnership with the Department of Education. We are working with community leaders representing farmers, women, youth, indigenous peoples, entrepreneurs, local government, and religious groups. We explored the concepts of Ecovillage and Permaculture design for development and connected it v

Deep roots. This is my meditation on my life work after arriving back from Kalinga province to launch our first workshop for Witnessing Trees a pilot project for Green Releaf, an organization I'm co founding to support communities in transition from disasters and conflict. I started dreaming of the Witnessing Trees project back at the COP21 under a tree inside the space where the world's decision makers hold their meetings as they finalize the Paris Agreement - the agreeme