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SUGPAT’s Fresh New Look
“Every dream matters!” This is the new battle cry of SUGPAT as it focuses on capacitating youth into transformative peacebuilders and compassionate leaders who are equipped with life skills, driven to achieve their dreams and answer their call of action to the community. SUGPAT’s new tagline and rebrand was first introduced during the launching of…
Read MoreACCA-SUGPAT co-organizes first national forum
“Bilib Ako sa Boses ng Kabataan!” This was the battle-cry of the Ateneo Center for Culture and the Arts’ SUGPAT team who flew in to the National Capital Region last month to help co-organize the Adolescent Forum and Development Partners’ Coordination Forum at Chardonnay by Astoria in Pasig City. Tapped by the Department of Education…
Read MoreSUGPAT-ALSPA preps curriculum for launching
Gearing up for its second cycle, the SUGPAT Alternative School for Peacebuilding and the Arts (ALSPA) is developing this month its new curriculum module which will be used when the school officially launches later in June. Following a creativity-centered learning approach, the curriculum will have a foundation of three learning strands namely: Human Dignity and…
Read MoreAdZU-SHS stud represents PH in intl meeting
An incoming 12th grade senior high student of Ateneo de Zamboanga University represented the voices of the Filipino youth in an international meeting of government leaders and urban decision makers in Surabaya, Indonesia from May 6 to 8. Joshua Rommel H. Vargas, alongside Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco, was invited by UNICEF to participate in “Growing…
Read MoreSUGPAT to launch barangay leadership program
SUGPAT has partnered with the Ateneo Center for Leadership and Governance (ACLG) to pioneer a barangay leadership program (SUGPAT-BLP) which focuses on capacitating barangay leaders, youth focal persons, and SK representatives in understanding issues on adolescents. As part of the SUGPAT Adolescent Development and Participation Program, SUGPAT-BLP aims to capacitate these leaders in fostering a…
Read MoreResearch arm to play big in SUGPAT Tres
As part of preparations for the development of a resource center, SUGPAT this year will be employing a detailed situational analysis of out-of-school youth (OSY) in Zamboanga City. The research will soon be an integral document as part of the establishment of SUGPAT’s Resource Center for Adolescent Development, Leadership and Participation which envisions itself to…
Read MoreDeveloping young people’s creativity to promote inclusion, diversity and peacebuilding in Mindanao
“We cannot accept you in this school unless you cut your hair short,” Maui was told when she tried to enroll in a public high school in Zamboanga City in 2004. Arian Maui Estrellado, 21, is no stranger to discrimination. Because of her gender preference, she had been denied enrollment in school three times: first…
Read MoreSUGPAT-ALSPA holds first FGD in Dulian
Last March 23, ACCA-SUGPAT inaugurated its first focus group discussion (FGD) in Barangay Dulian to determine the educational needs of out-of-school-youths enrolled in the Alternative Learning System (ALS). Attended by 14 ALS learners from the ALS center of Brgy. Dulian and 16 parents and guardians, the FGD focused on assessing subject matter interests among the…
Read MoreAdZU, Community Responds to Call on Analyzing Youth Situation in ZC
Over thirty participants gathered at the Garden Orchid Hotel to attend “HU YOUth?: A Participatory Workshop to Understand Our Adolescents in Zamboanga City,” held last March 14 and 15. Organized by ADZU’s Center for Culture and the Arts, the workshop aimed to gather stakeholders in analyzing key issues that adolescents in Zamboanga City were facing.…
Read MoreACCA-SUGPAT Team Attends Int’l Conference On Inclusive Education
“There really is a need to create more programs for our out-of-school-youth,” said Department of Education secretary Leonor Magtolis-Briones in a close encounter with ACCA-SUGPAT Project Director Kiko Miranda. Sec. Briones was only one of many dignitaries that the ACCA-SUGPAT team met when they attended the 15th SEAMEO Innotech International Conference from March 5-8 at…
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