Services

capacity building and education

At the heart of Sabokahan’s work is the education of Lumad girls, women, and LGBTQ+ people. In many Lumad communities, women including young girls bear the burnt of domestic labor as well as farming and harvesting to feed their families. This has prevented generations of Lumad girls from developing their capacity as leaders, teachers, and more. Sabokahan prioritizes culturally and politically responsive educational workshops as well as capacity-building programs and campaigns in direct resistance to feudal-patriarchal stereotypes and conditions.

Organizing and Mobilization of Women and lgbtq

Sabokahan organizes at the community level and assists in the formation of women’s groups and councils in order for them to have a clear voice in their own communities. We mobilize Lumad women and their communities around the women’s rights issues, social justice, genuine peace and genuine development. 

Sabokahan leads in the campaign for women’s rights through education campaigns about the rights and dignity of women. 

For instance, Sabokahan has been campaigning against the forced imposition of the duway system (multiple wife system), buya tradition (arranged marriages even for as young as 8 year old girls), and other traditional practices that violate the rights and dignity of women. 

Sabokahan link and raise local women’s rights issues to broader political campaigns economic justice, environmental justice, peace campaigns and social justice movements.