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    A Journey To Our Womb (Write-Up On The Season of Creation)

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    The document summarizes an event held on October 1 to celebrate the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Philippines. Various stakeholders gathered at Regina RICA, a pilgrimage site in the biodiverse Sierra Madre range, to recognize the benefits the mountains provide local communities. During the event, advocates highlighted the important role of the Sierra Madre in providing water, food and protection from typhoons, and the need to protect it. The celebration included tree planting and cultural activities to promote environmental stewardship and preservation of native trees.

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    The document summarizes an event held on October 1 to celebrate the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Philippines. Various stakeholders gathered at Regina RICA, a pilgrimage site in the biodiverse Sierra Madre range, to recognize the benefits the mountains provide local communities. During the event, advocates highlighted the important role of the Sierra Madre in providing water, food and protection from typhoons, and the need to protect it. The celebration included tree planting and cultural activities to promote environmental stewardship and preservation of native trees.

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    The document summarizes an event held on October 1 to celebrate the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Philippines. Various stakeholders gathered at Regina RICA, a pilgrimage site in the biodiverse Sierra Madre range, to recognize the benefits the mountains provide local communities. During the event, advocates highlighted the important role of the Sierra Madre in providing water, food and protection from typhoons, and the need to protect it. The celebration included tree planting and cultural activities to promote environmental stewardship and preservation of native trees.

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    A Journey To Our Womb (Write-Up On The Season of Creation)

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    The document summarizes an event held on October 1 to celebrate the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Philippines. Various stakeholders gathered at Regina RICA, a pilgrimage site in the biodiverse Sierra Madre range, to recognize the benefits the mountains provide local communities. During the event, advocates highlighted the important role of the Sierra Madre in providing water, food and protection from typhoons, and the need to protect it. The celebration included tree planting and cultural activities to promote environmental stewardship and preservation of native trees.

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    A Journey Back to Our Womb: Celebrating the Sierra Madre

    Just a few hours east of Manila, the Regina RICA is a pilgrimage site nestled in one of the most
    biodiverse areas in the country, the Sierra Madre Mountain Range. On October 1, green advocates
    trooped to Regina RICA to celebrate the culmination of the Season of Creation.

    It was a day of tribute and recognition to the benefits of the Sierra Madre to the communities
    surrounding it, from Cagayan Valley in the north down to Quezon Province in the south. This
    recognition has come belatedly the presidential proclamation that encouraged the celebration of
    the Sierra Madre Day was signed only years after the deadly floods caused by Typhoon Ondoy in
    2009.

    During the multi-sectoral gathering, Sis. Elizabeth Carranza, a fierce Sierra Madre advocate,
    highlighted the fact that everyone has a role to play in protecting the mountain range that gives
    Filipinos water, food, and protection from the typhoons that regularly batter the Philippines. The
    diverse crowdreligious, lay, IPs and the unat, young and old were also treated to games and
    other fun activities about the environment and native trees of the country. In fact, the Bingo Tree
    Walk, a game similar to bingo but the cards are inscribed not with numbers but with the names of
    native trees, proved popular among participants.

    The celebration culminated with a tree planting ceremony presided by Bricks Sintaon who
    performed a symbolic ritual rooted in the Talaandig culture. The Talaandig are an indigenous people
    of Bukidnon province.

    The Green Convergence-led event is, in a way, a journey to our spiritual womb, the Virgin Mary who
    is the patroness of Regina RICA. It is also a pilgrimage to our ecological womb, Inang Kabundukan or
    Sierra Madre, which have nurtured Filipinos for millennia. Dario Aumentado, an Agta participant
    from Gen. Nakar, Quezon, could not agree more. Agtas have a symbiotic relationship with the
    environment and it has provided us with life. It is just right that we do the same for Mother Nature.

    The Season of Creation is only one among the many initiatives of the Green Convergence for Safe
    Food, Healthy Environment and Sustainable Economy. Visit our Facebook page and learn more how
    you can do your part in saving Sierra Madre.

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