Bohol News Daily

News, Events, Press Release and Updates in Bohol and Around the Philippines

SK to launch massive eco-friendly programs

Written by anyajulia on 31 March 2009

MASSIVE multiple role-playing game anyone?

This time however, it is not the usual multi-level online games generation Ragnarok is so notorious of, but for the environment.

The country’s premier youth instituted organization is now inviting everyone to join an activity aimed to generate massive multiple action, to trigger the greening of the Philippines and mitigate the effects of climate change.

“We hope to engage and mobilize our 16 regional directors to start their own regional pro-environment action programs to realize the Green Philippines Project that the president has initiated,” Sangguniang Kabataan National Federation (SKNF) President Jana Censoria Cajes said.

SKNF executive assistant Jubelyn N. Pulgarinas also shared the details of the same project plan at the recent Kapihan sa PIA, Thursday.

The forum aired live over DyTR also afforded Boholanos the chance to hear for themselves the recent program developments in local SK youth advocacy and the environment.

Relying on triggering a critical mass of the country’s young in the same manner as online-internet game followers can amass in a day, SK also hopes to generate that much to break-ground for the project.

To be organized under the SK through its national federation, the ambitious plan, called Sama-Sama para sa Kalikasan (SK) would be enjoining the youth to a journey, not to ragna-land but to the final fantasy, a later version of a better world.

The SDNF would be launching the program during the national convention in Bohol this week, SK Bohol staff Chris John Torralba bared.

The convention, set March 31 to April 3 at the Bohol Tropics puts up 122 of the country’s top youth organization leaders in a gathering themed Kabataan: Gabay sa Makakalikasang Aksyon.

The convention would be capped with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo launching the SK National Environment Campaign, which will signal the start or organized massive tree planting activities, intensified environment advocacy campaigns in schools and information education programs in different venues across the country.

Joining the president would be Environment Secretary Lito Atienza, SK sources said.

“With the felt climate change, it is high time for the youth, who have been unjustly labeled as carefree, to show that they too can make a difference,” Capitol SK’s Torralba said.

I believe the youth could do something, Torralba pressed even as another SKNF executive assistant Jubelyn Pulgarinas noted that there is already an indication that youth are starting to get involved in the community.

Unlike then when SK is associated with discos and sports leagues, Pulgarinas said much of the youth now is into youth and environment advocacies, “but we need society to guide them, help them with the available resources and acknowledge their efforts”.

In Bohol, a parallel organization implementing SK programs is the Volunteer Club (SKVC), one which has been into more radical environment conservation and damage mitigation by engaging in mangrove planting and rehabilitation projects, shares Ann Crusit, SKVC president.

“This is also what we hope to do as our little contribution to the global effort to take care of the only planet we have,” she added. (rachiu/PIA)

Bookmark or Share this Article to