Benjamin abadianos
- Benjamin Abadiano is a Filipino lexicographer who has worked in the country's highlands with the Mangyan, Lumad, and other indigenous peoples.
- Benjamin Abadiano (born February 11, 1963) is a Filipino lexicographer who has worked in the country's highlands with the Mangyan, Lumad.
- Ben is the architect of a movement to bring full economic citizenship to the 14-17 million Filipinos who self-identify as indigenous peoples (IPs).
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Abadiano, Benjamin
Chairman and Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation Distinguished Guests, Fellow Awardees and Dear Friends.
Agkanggayan! Peace to one and all!
I stand here before this esteemed gathering today grateful yet awed for this recognition you have given me. It is wholly undeserved as I am aware that there are others out there, hundreds of men and women who live lives of dedicated service to the indigenous peoples, who are more deserving than I am in receiving this award. In honor of their quiet and oftentimes, unrecognized work, I dedicate this award first and foremost.
In giving me this award, the Foundation affirms its conviction that only a life dedicated to others is a life truly worth living. I see myself, therefore, not so much as a model that can inspire others to a life of service, but as a channel of that one eternal message that brings life and hope to people — which says: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
My life and work these past fifteen years serve as testimony of my great love for the Mangyan pe
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As he completes his two-year term as member of the Board of Trustees of the Partnership for Development Assistance in the Philippines or PDAP, outgoing Chairperson, Mr. Benjamin Abadiano, addressed the membership in the recent 36th PDAP Annual Membership Meeting, by reflecting on PDAP’s key successes and challenges in the past few years while sharing insights and hopeful vision for the future. Firstly, Mr. Abadiano gave a heartfelt tribute to one of the pillars of PDAP, the late Ambassador Howard Dee. He recalled that Ambassador Dee played a crucial and significant role in the early stages of establishing PDAP by facilitating partnerships between the Philippine NGOs and our partners in Canada. He added that Ambassador Dee’s leadership and advocacy in support of development initiatives in the Philippines contributed to the early successes of PDAP in addressing socio-economic concerns in the country.
Mr. Abadiano then reflected on the past year and highlighted PDAP’s new strategic direction of uplifting the lives of disadvantaged families and communities through collective rura
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