Indigenous peoples (IPs) or lumad across Mindanao have been displaced from their communities due to conflict and are now in need of our support. Help us scale up our assistance, raise public awareness about their situation, and to meet their urgent needs.
Many of them (around 3,000 people) have been staying in a sports center in Tandag, a small city in northern Mindanao. The stadium is poorly outfitted to be an evacuation center or even a makeshift shelter. There are no walls, no rooms, and no toilets. The center is also far from their sources of income and means of living. Away from their homes and farms, the lumads now experience hunger, thirst, sickness, and, even worse, insecurity.
ACCORD, working together with local partners such as ALCADEV and TRIFPSS, is responding to the various needs of the internally displaced peoples (IDPs).
Help us scale up our assistance to the affected families, raise public awareness about their situation, and to meet their urgent needs for food, shelter, water and sanitation, health, and education.