Metamorphosis_Kalahi-CIDSS Compendium 2015
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Ab-abuyog:<br />
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Home to Whang-od, a famed traditional tattooist and Macli’ing Dulag, a<br />
renowned tribal hero, Tinglayan in Kalinga Province can be considered as a<br />
seat of cultural heritage.<br />
Like most indigenous communities, bayanihan is among the cultural practices in this<br />
community. For Tinglayan, they call it ab-abuyog. This was a practice where farmers help<br />
each other in tilling their farms.<br />
However, time caused the deliberate relapse of this heritage.<br />
Years passed, ab-abuyog became a forgotten culture in Tinglayan but has now found its way<br />
back to weave the community.<br />
“For a time, we forgot how our ancestors built this community without a formal government”<br />
says Tinglayan Mayor Johnny Maymaya Sr. “All they did was just help each other build these<br />
communities,” he pondered.<br />
Not until the Department of Social Welfare and Development introduced the Kapit-Bisig<br />
Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Service (<strong>Kalahi</strong>-<br />
<strong>CIDSS</strong>) Project in the municipality in 2011. Maymaya acknowledged that the best gift<br />
<strong>Kalahi</strong>-<strong>CIDSS</strong> has given to his town is the revival of bayanihan spirit.<br />
The <strong>Kalahi</strong>-<strong>CIDSS</strong> Project is one of the core poverty reduction programs of the Philippine<br />
Government which aims to empower poor communities through the community-driven<br />
development (CDD) approach. This is an approach that gathers communities and gives<br />
them the control over planning, decisions-making and implementing projects for local<br />
development.<br />
Tinglayan and CDD<br />
A fourth class municipality, this town is home to 12, 557 people majority of which are
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