Welcome to TALAB 2025
The Talakayang Alay sa Bayan (TALAB) is a series of events aimed at providing students with opportunities to reflect on the various issues confronting the nation. It is an annual event of the Ateneo, giving space for reflection on issues affecting the country.
Committing to Laudato Si's call to respond to the Cry of the Poor, this year's TALAB targets to amplify the calls of
the excluded sector in society, with the concept of exclusion also accounting for those who are discriminated
against consciously or unconsciously and thus are not able to fully participate in the life of society, and those
who are powerless to influence social decision-making. As such, TALAB 2025-2026 is committing to the theme Walking
with the Excluded.
Walking with the Excluded is one of the four Jesuit Apostolic preferences, which emphasizes not only the
need to
hear the cry of the excluded but to walk alongside them as they face various challenges. The call to be persons for
others has evolved to be the call to be persons for and with others, and TALAB, under this theme, wishes to set an
example of how to do so.
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