{"id":17650,"date":"2020-07-18T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:48:21","slug":"encounter-with-the-dumagat-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/?p=17650","title":{"rendered":"Encounter With The Dumagat Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 18, 2019, Ms. Mylen, a Dumagat at Sitio Inipit and a teacher who used to work in a school in another municipality, took the initiative to empower her community through education. By chance more than five years ago, she met yogi Alfonso Vieja, more known as Dada (elder brother) Atma (soul) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandamarga.org\/\">Ananda Marga<\/a> tradition, where he is a yoga teacher. Dada Atma, in his own way \u2013 especially through his own resources, his friends, and fundraisers \u2013 has been helping Dumagats in Aurora ever since he lived with one community for a week when he got stranded by a typhoon in Quirino municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Mylen asked Dada Atma\u2019s help for the students \u2013 or rather, lack of students \u2013 at Sitio Inipit. Dada, again through his networks, mustered enough resources to shoulder miscellaneous fees and school supplies not covered by the Dumagat students\u2019 public school education. He also had a day care center built and promptly sent Ms. Mylen back to her community to teach there. Dada supported around 60 kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamtravelinglight.com\/2013\/06\/05\/an-encounter-with-the-dumagat-tribes-in-aurora-a-call-for-help\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 18, 2019, Ms. Mylen, a Dumagat at Sitio Inipit and a teacher who used to work in a school in another municipality, took the initiative to empower her community through education. By chance more than five years ago, she met yogi Alfonso Vieja, more known as Dada (elder brother) Atma (soul) in the  &#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previous-news","category-center-sub-news","tag-manila-sector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17651,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/17651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/am-global-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}