ELSA brings SMYLes to Mindanao Youth!
9/28/2009 | Ayala Foundation
The Youth Civic Engagement Program (YCEP) of the Education and Livelihood Skills Alliance is a development program developed by Ayala Foundation for community youth leaders in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and other conflict areas. This development program gathers 50 community-recognized youth leaders from North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.
YCEP provides the youth opportunities to take on a more active role in community building. Participants in the program undergo a series of capacity-building activities that will help them contribute to the development of their own community. These capacity building activities are implemented in four phases: The capacity building activities underwent by the youth participants are divided into four phases: consciousness-raising, organizing, mobilizing and sustaining efforts.
The final output of the youth participants under this program is a youth-led education project to be implemented in their own specific or clustered barangay. To date, we have received 41 project proposals coming from the four sub-clusters. Only 17 projects will be granted with financial support.
The Youth Civic Engagement Program Secretariat sees the need to support more than just 17 of the 41-project proposal crafted by the youth participants thus the idea of a fund raising project was realized.Support a Mindanaoan Youth Leader Project or SMYLe is a fund raising initiative that promotes leadership resiliency among Mindanaoan young leaders who were given opportunities to undergo the program.
The 2-month SMYLe campaign hopes to gather a total fund of PHP 410,000 to support all the project proposals submitted by the youth participants. The grant awarding will be done in time of the next cycle of the youth civic engagement program on October 2009.
Support ELSA's Youth Civic Engagement Program and help spread SMYLes in Mindanao!
If you are interested in supporting SMYLe, call (02) 752 1063, or 0917 8607764. You may also email JR Demecais for more information at demecais.ig@ayalafoundation.org.
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