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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on February 21st, 2013The coastal community I was doing household survey on is in danger of being demolished to give way to a beach resort. The fishing households in this community earn, on the average $1,243.30 every year or $3.40 for a 7-hour fishing day. This is just one example of thousands of coastal communities that are being [...]
Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on November 22nd, 2012A wave of protests swept the coasts along the Visayan Sea, one of the Philippines’ rich fishing ground, on World Fisheries Day, the 21st of November. Small fisherfolks in these coastal communities are protesting the 4-month fishing ban in said fishing ground being implemented without their informed consent and without consideration of the ban’s impact [...]
Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on September 13th, 2012On September 19 to 21, seventy delegates from all over the world will participate in the International Conference on Fisheries and Globalization. It’s a three-day forum on education and advocacy-sharing among small-scale fisherfolk groups, advocates and academic and research institutions. In a hungry world, and 925 million hungry people can attest to that, the fisheries [...]
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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on March 4th, 2012The Finisher’s Medal my friend and running-mate Su gave me after my first 5K race in Snoqualmie Ridge last year. It was my Philippine-side 41st birthday, the day I ran. The next day, I celebrated my birthday again with four birthday cakes and with people from all over the world. It was a good year, 2011. [...]
Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on February 18th, 2012So how’s my life been after Seattle and iLEAP? Hectic. That’s what it has been like, hectic. Lately I find myself referring to my organizer slash appointment book everytime I need to do something or if someone asks if I have any free time. My life is in that appointment book. (It’s a little black [...]
Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on November 9th, 2011I had been thinking about some of the conversations I had with Izumi in yesterday’s interview and one of the things she asked was: What does iLEAP mean to you? I responded that iLEAP had been a space for me to grow. Thinking more about that this morning, I reflected that iLEAP created the space [...]
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