Community Technical College of Southeastern Mindanao, Inc.

Community Technical College of Southeastern Mindanao, Inc. (CTCSM) pursues education for all, with no child of indigenous peoples left behind. It aims to graduate lumad (indigenous peoples in Mindanao) teachers committed to serving their fellow lumad. We are run by the power of volunteerism. All our teaching and non-teaching staff and educators accompany us 24/7 in the boarding facilities of the school. We learn math, science, reading, writing, arts and history to solve real problems that we face everyday. Our success comes with every lumad child we graduate who is able to speak and write freely, participate wholly in all aspects of decision-making and development, equipped with functiona... read more Community Technical College of Southeastern Mindanao, Inc. (CTCSM) pursues education for all, with no child of indigenous peoples left behind. It aims to graduate lumad (indigenous peoples in Mindanao) teachers committed to serving their fellow lumad. We are run by the power of volunteerism. All our teaching and non-teaching staff and educators accompany us 24/7 in the boarding facilities of the school. We learn math, science, reading, writing, arts and history to solve real problems that we face everyday. Our success comes with every lumad child we graduate who is able to speak and write freely, participate wholly in all aspects of decision-making and development, equipped with functional life skills and resolved to serve those who have least in life. OUR VALUES We embrace our diversity as we work together for the transformation of a society and a world respectful of life. With this, we do not only regard proper rights to human beings but also foster a deeper relationship and connection to the land and our environment. Upholding indigenous culture and consciousness, we are aware that the earth must be healed in order to genuinely support the current and future generations to come. We are learning and practicing agro-ecologists and we believe that the only way to live in the next decades is to practice self-determination and self-sustainability. We organically grow the food we eat, and aid our health naturally. OUR FUTURE We are work in progress, and we fully commit to the continuous development of the quality of our life, with transformative education as core even amid scarcity of resources. We strive to build a physical environment conducive to the total development of each and every individual of our learning community.