by IEF-admin | Apr 26, 2022 | Uncategorised
Indigenous Education Foundation (IEF) is proud to announce a new partnership with Kalimantan’s Ranu Welum Foundation. Indigenous-led, Ranu Welum is driven by a team of young Dayak people working to preserve their culture, protect the forests and fight for Dayak’s...
by IEF-admin | Dec 9, 2021 | Impact stories
2022 marks the beginning of the United Nations Decade of Indigenous Languages, and the Mentawai Cultural Education Foundation are already gearing up to publish a revised edition of their 2019 Mentawai (Rereiket) dictionary. Worldwide, Indigenous languages are...
by IEF-admin | Sep 15, 2021 | Impact stories
Bai Tiru, a Mentawai mother fishes in the river for crabs, shrimp, and fish. Bai Tiru never wonders how she will feed her family. She looks to the right of the family’s home (Uma) and at the sky to determine if it is a good day to pick up the subba fishing net she had...
by IEF-admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Impact stories
Mentawai woman, Bai Tiru, fishes in the river for crabs, shrimp, and fish. Photo by Joo Peter. The spectacular colours and motifs of the Mentawai peoples—the body culture, play and identity of a surviving and burgeoning culture—were profiled in Live Encounters (August...
by IEF-admin | Oct 8, 2020 | Impact stories
IEF partnered with lead marketing and communications agency, VMLY&R, to celebrate Worldwide Foundation Day on Thursday, September 24, under the rubric “Together As One,” a fitting theme that brings together IEF and VMLY&R’s core values: advancing inclusion,...
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