Hundreds of refugee families clustered in tent village, North Cotabato, assisted with medicines and other humanitarian supplies from AAI.
	Philippine National Police guard assists refugees in a Midsayap refugee camp in North Cotabato Province.
	Town school burnt to the ground by Moro Islamic Liberation Front[MILF] raiders in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte province.
	Surviving hostages who were used as human shields by MILF raiders describe their ordeal to the AAI team in refugee encampment on public school grounds in Iligan.
	Refugee child with '100 yard stare' drinking donated Chocolate milk after her village was burned to ground by MILF raiders in Iligan.
	Inside temporary refugee dormitory shelter in Midsayap, North Cotabatao. Children sleep in midst of piles of families’ meager belongings after their homes were burned down by rebels.
	Refugee children in an urban refugee relocation center in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur Province.
	AAI Program Coordinator Rohaniza Sumndad takes part in post-traumatic stress counseling session by Filipino psychiatrist assisting Lanao el Norte social workers and doctors. A widow with her 14 year daughter tells how her husband was murdered and their home burned by MILF raiders.
	At St. Michael’s College in Iligan, Christian and Muslim College students from three universities and Ayala Young Leaders become AAI “Catalysts for Peace” in late-night medicine and toys sorting session in preparation for next day work in refugee camps by Rohaniza Sumndad and Albert Santoli.
	AAI Program Coordinator, Rohaniza Sumndad distributes stuffed animals and infant toys to refugee children in refugee camps in Midsayap, North Cotabato, as part of AAI’s Healing Children Victims of War program.
	AAI Coordinator Rohaniza Sumndad distributes “Beanie Baby” to refugee child in Midsayap, North Cotabato.
	AAI Coordinator Rohaniza Sumndad distributes Big Bird toy boat to refugee child in Midsayap, North Cotabato.
	AAI Director, Albert Santoli distributes anti-bacterial soap to refugee camp coordinators in Pikit, North Cotabato. All refugee camps are desperately short of clean water and sanitation facilities, causes many internal and external infections.
	In Ilagan City, AAI student Catalysts for Peace prepare 'goodie bags' for refugee families with soap, snacks, tea and toys contributed by Unilever Corporation.
	In Marawi City refugee center, AAI Director Albert Santoli distributes goodie bags to refugee children donated by Unilever Corporation.
	In Marawi City, Lanao Sur Province, AAI’s Albert Santoli and Rohaniza Sumndad inaugurate the Gardens of peace program, in partnership with the U.N. World Food Program. The AAI team distributed vegetable and flower seeds donated by the Burpee Seed Company in the US and the International Relief and Development organization to five model schools and five model farming cooperatives.
	The AAI Gardens of Peace program is intended to bring communities together and create a positive environment, as well as enhance nutrition in areas of armed conflict.
	The AAI Gardens of Peace Program in Central Mindanao in Christian and Muslim areas is a component of the expanded Development for Peace program, which was originally conducted in the Sulu archipelago. Education is a central component, with AAI contributing books donated by college students in Manila.
	AAI’s Al Santoli and Rohaniza Sumndad meet with mayors of conflict affected areas and the Governor of North Cotabato, Jesus Sakhdalin [in red shirt].
	The AAI team meet with the head of a local village defense militia in Pikit, North Cotabato, in an area where MILF raiders, mostly between the ages of 12 to 19 years, burned down a number of homes causing substantial displacement of families.
	In Pikit, North Cotabato, AAI is assisting local officials, the Red Cross and other NGOs in providing funding for blue plastic to make temporary shelter for refugee families camped in muddy open fields during monsoon rains.
	A refugee child in donated Hello Kitty dress wanders through makeshift encampment in Pikit. In September the U.N. reported 500,000 persons displaced by the conflict in central Mindanao, more than half are children under the age of 12.