Bandanas For Healing

Filiology x Cancer Warriors Foundation

HOW CAN YOU HELP BENEFIT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHILE BATTLING CANCER?

Become a sponsor and support the livelihood of Philippine indigenous communities while battling cancer. By purchasing a Yakan Prosperity Bandana or Kalinga Healing Bandana for yourself, a child battling cancer will receive a Kalinga Healing Bandana. A portion of each sale will go toward the Cancer Warriors Foundation for the continued support of children & their families as they battle with cancer. 

Learn more about sponsorship levels here:

For International sponsors - https://filiology.com/products/healing-bandanas-for-cancer-warriors-foundation

For Philippine Residents - 

Healing Bracelet - P350

Companion Sponsors - P850

Healer Sponsors - P1550

Healing Benefactors  - P9300

 

THE STORY

 

October 29, 2018 - A small group of mothers from the Northernmost part of the Philippines (Kalinga) to the South (Zamboanga) came together in an intimate ceremony to gift children battling cancer with handwoven bandanas. The ceremony kickstarted Filiology and the Cancer Warriors Foundation Inc.'s campaign "Bandanas for Healing." It was intended not just to raise funds for the children of the Cancer Warriors Foundation, but also to let the children know that indigenous communities from North to South of the Philippines, have come together with prayers for healing them in body and spirit. Local weaving communities traditionally perform rituals & prayers as they begin and end their weaving. The weaves are their expression for the complexities & blessings of life.

The Yakan take pride in even the underside of each seputangan. Proof in the hard work and expertise of the artisan is seen on under side of these fabrics. The Yakan see this as a symbol for the struggles and hard work that we sometimes hide. Without these, beauty would not be possible.

Photo caption: Carmen Auste, Co-founder of the Cancer Warriors Foundation, and Gwendolyn Torres, Co-founder of Filiology, hold up the back and front of the seputangan, respectively.

The children battling cancer were gifted with Healing Bandanas (called "abungos"/"sapayong") woven by the Kalinga community. 

Beads from the Kalinga ("atod" and "sipat," a strand of beads used in healing & peace pact rituals respectively), adorn the abungos with colors & patterns also used for the healing & protection of ancient warriors.

 Watch the video about the Kalinga Abungos here:

See what Mutya ng Pilipinas 2018, Aya Fernandez has to say about this initiative: