Preda Fair Trade, Philippines

The story of Joey Las Piñas By: Seunghee Lee   This is the story of Joey Las Pinas, a sewer who has been trading with Profairtrade since 2005, a 41 year old Filipino man born in Mindanao Area. Joey is married and has three children, two girls and one boy who are all attending school. Joey […]

HUMANITY, SPIRITUAL VALUES AND THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE by Fr. Shay Cullen email: shaycullen@preda.org   (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times, in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) The slaughter of twenty children, 6 and 7 year-olds and seven teachers last 14 December, 2012 with a legally purchased high powered semi-automatic assault weapon […]

There are certain tipping points in history that caused global upheaval and social unrest and political change. A tipping point is when a situation generates so much pressure of human emotion, anger and frustration, it causes an irreversible social reaction that affects a nation, a region or the human race and there is no undoing it. One person can cause a tipping point, they are unknown, unseen, and unexpected, yet they can cause dynamic change.

On December 11-15, 2012, Donardo Angeles-The Producer’s Developmet Officer / Agriculturist of Preda Pro Fair Trade visited the Davao Mango Farmers supplying carabao mangoes. Two (2) new women’s orghaization were also met. To date we already have 5 mango growers totalling to 74 farmers having 2,084 trees with estimated harvest of 455,690 kilos..During the meeting the following were discussed:

TV50: Radharc: Pain Is The Price, RTÉ One, Thursday 13 December, 11.55pm To accompany RTÉ’s series The Radharc Squad (Tuesday at 10:15pm), an opportunity to see a classic episode of Radharc, which introduced the world to the voice and work of Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. Since nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize […]