During a visit to Museo Dabawenyo last year, this piece of art caught my attention. It’s a multimedia work by a local artist portraying the three major groups living in Davao City, also representative of the people of Mindanao: the Muslims, the Christians, and the lumads or indigenous peoples.

The artwork highlights the differences in beliefs, culture, and lifestyle of the three groups. It is the aspiration of every Davaeoño, every Mindanaoan that these three groups will live in peace together, cooperating to uplift and develop our land of promise… Mindanao.

This is Mindanao, a melting pot of cultures, of peoples from different places, of different beliefs, of various lifestyles.

It is our hope that we will, together, fulfill the promise, enrich our people, uplift the lives of our fellow Mindanaoans, and cultivate our islands riches. With each other’s strengths, respecting and accepting our differences and living with each other harmoniously, we will live the dream, fulfill the promise.

Padayon Mindanao!

#Mindanao 🙂