SULADS STORIES

HISTORY OF KAMANSI MISSION SCHOOL

Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental

           The Quitoy Family of boundary near MVC came to my office one day to ask how they can avail of the services of the SULADS.  That was February of 1998.  The wife who is from Lagonglong has a small lot in the mountains of Lagonglong where a Higaonon tribe live in their still primitive way.

            We surveyed the place with the Quitoy family’s request to put the school near their land.  We found it in conflict with the natives interest, and now we transferred to another village where the natives gather and united to support the idea of making their huts in that village.

            Today members of the tribe from different mountains are starting to make their houses in Kamansi village where there is temporary housing for our student missionaries. This house also serves as their temporary school.

            The work was started in June 16, 1999.  The people in the village who were once NPA rebels are still suspected by the lowlanders to be active.  The lowlanders suspect the SULADS missionaries to be supporters also of the rebels.  They can’t just believe their ears that teachers of the SULADS go to this no man’s land.  They can’t believe the fact that teachers go there and stay when there is no school yet, when other places have schools already but no teacher would dare go.