Badjao Elder

Just before our South Korean visitors from Soon Chun Hyang University left Sta. Cruz on January 18, 2014; they invited me and my colleagues for a short program in the Badjao area particularly at Apo Beach last January 17 in the morning. There I spotted this old Badjao woman, too old that she can no longer walk (she's already bed-ridden). She instead stayed in her house and enjoyed the presentation of the Koreans. According to my Badjao friends, this woman is a master weaver of romblon mat, a traditional skill which is sadly diminishing in their locality now because only very few young Badjaos have acquired the skill in mat weaving.