Help the Mamanwa Tribe in the Philippines get their own homes!

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The Mamanwa Tribe of the Philippines are squatting on mining land. We want to give them new homes! We can do it for $33,000!

Bay of Plenty

Give the Mamanwa people a home !

International Needs responded to help the Typhoon Haiyan victims. In the course of its relief and rehabilitation work it came across an indigenous peoples group named the Mamanwas. With no government intervention to help, they live in a hand to mouth existence by gathering rattan in the mountains to be made as baskets which they sell or exchanged for rice. Typhoon Haiyan destroyed their main source of income, thus, they barely survive by begging and looking for other jobs which they can hardly find, being unskilled and not used to living in the lowlands.

International Needs' involvement (page creator)

My name is Gradon Harvey, I am the executive Director of International Needs, A Christian Aid organization that has been around for 40 years. A few weeks ago I was in the Philippines on the island of Leyte and met the 70 members of the Mamanwa tribe led by a 29 year old women called Jenifer. She was the only one who could read or write.

They have no toilets, no easy access to water, no jobs. They live on a hand to mouth existence. There are days when they have no food to eat. There is a piece of land not far where they live that we can buy, close to a river. We can build 23 homes, with 15 toilets ( each home shares a toilet) for $66,000. The tribe will do most of the building. We also want to buy for them 6 cows for them to breed from.

We have found a community in the Philippines who will give half the money if we can find the rest.

There are photos and more information at

http://www.internationalneeds.org.nz/currentprojectneeds/61-Get%20the%20Mamanwa%20people%20a%20home

About us

International Needs began in New Zealand in 1972 by Kiwi Ray Harrison. Our goal is to empower local leaders within their own nation to transform lives and change communities. This is done through various community development projects & child sponsorship.