Project Report - La Trobe University
Project Report - La Trobe University
Project Report - La Trobe University
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Thank yous and goodbyes<br />
<strong>Project</strong> handover and wrap-up<br />
We arranged a series of events to conclude the<br />
project, first in Chananaw and then in Manila.<br />
On July 3, 2009 we hosted a community-wide<br />
celebration cum project presentation, farewell<br />
and general thanksgiving for our five months’<br />
stay. The event had all the trappings of a typical<br />
Ichananaw ‘occasion’: gongs were beaten; there<br />
was dancing; elders composed songs on the<br />
spot about our time in Chananaw, in the ullalim<br />
style for which Kalinga is famous; and the entire<br />
community ate their fill of rice, pork and forat<br />
(broth). Intertwined with this, we explained and<br />
presented the educational materials we had<br />
developed and produced, one by one, to the<br />
Dananao Elementary School and thanked the<br />
community for sharing the entire experience<br />
with us.<br />
In Manila, we presented our project as the<br />
centerpiece of the Australian Embassy’s<br />
NAIDOC Week celebration: a morning tea held<br />
at the Australia Centre in Makati on July 10,<br />
2009. This provided several of the different<br />
groups who had contributed to the project with<br />
a unique chance to meet each other: four of the<br />
Ichananaws who had been central to our work<br />
in Chananaw came to Manila to attend the<br />
event, along with key members of the Ateneo<br />
Center for Educational Development, Cartwheel<br />
Foundation, Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan, and<br />
Volunteering for International Development<br />
from Australia.<br />
Also on July 10, 2009 we held a dinner for the<br />
Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan artists who had<br />
contributed to our project, to thank them and to<br />
present each artist with a complementary copy<br />
of the book he or she had illustrated, and the<br />
collective with a full set of the storybooks for<br />
their library.