Where education meets identity

MANSALAY, ORIENTAL MINDORO—For generations of Mangyan children from remote mountain communities in southern Oriental Mindoro, going to high school was once a difficult journey—literally. Some had to walk for hours from their homes to reach a classroom. At the Mangyan Education Center Inc. (MEC) in Barangay Bait-Panaytayan, Mansalay, that long journey has, for nearly four