A T’boli woman leader and an effective community organizer, An-an Menson, lives andworks with the T’boli community in Sitio Tablo, Bgy. Lemdalag, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. She works as community health worker after undergoing a training on preventive health care. She organizes indigenous women and involves men on preventive and alternative health care, and child nutrition.

When the project on micro hydro power was conceptualized in 2000 and eventually implemented in 2005, she was very happy that the community would have quality lighting, access to news and information through television, children can study at night, lightings in streets and school buildings. She said the micro hydro has provided a lot of benefits to the community. She is the Vice Chairperson of the Tablo Integrated Development Association (TIDA), the local organization that manages the micro hydro power.

Watershed protection and management is an integral part of the micro hydro power. Community members replant indigenous trees and fruit trees in the watershed. She said  community now appreciates the value of maintaining the environment through watershed management and protection as a sustainability measures in their micro hydropower project.

An-an is currently the barangay chairman of Barangay Lemdalag, and she has a lot of plans for community development in Bgy Lemdalag. One of her plans is for the barangay to appropriate a fund for the maintenance of the existing micro hydro. Also, she would want to sustain the watershed management and protection initiatives of TIDA through a barangay ordinance in the protection of the identified watershed area of Tablo.