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BLP Update: Barangay leaders undergo Module 2 after practicum stage
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you,” Aurora Gonzales, Project Director of SUGPAT Barangay Leadership Program (BLP), said in her closing statement as we concluded Module 2 for SUGPAT BLP last November 15-17 and November 29 – December 1, 2018. The objective of BLP Module 2 is to deepen the ownership of the…
Read MoreMental health put on focus in 4th youth talks forum
Aiming to capacitate the youth of Zamboanga City on “first aid intervention” regarding mental health issues, the last SUGPAT Youth Talks of the year was organized last November 30. Considered the most engaging Youth Talks yet, more than 50 youth from all over the city gathered for “SUGPAT Youth Talks 4: Prioritizing Your Mental Health…
Read MoreSUGPAT speaks at national youth volunteer convention
Last November 26, Ateneo-SUGPAT attended the first ever Filipino Youth Volunteers Convention as a speaker for the Social Innovation & Community Development break-out session at the SMX Aura Convention Center, Manila. SUGPAT was represented by its program director, Kiko Miranda, who shared the stage alongside Mr. Prim Paypon, founder of The Dream Project. During his…
Read MoreSUGPAT co-organizes Galing Pook Governance Fair 2018
The entire AdZU-SUGPAT team flew to Manila last October 10 and 11 to help co-organize the Galing Pook Governance Fair 2018 with the theme “#BagoTayo: Youth in Innovative Governance” at the Novotel Araneta Center, Quezon City. This year’s theme, Youth in Innovative Governance, is using #BagoTayo as its battlecry. Guided by the collective goal of…
Read MoreALSPA Update: Fellows participate in creativity workshops, SUGPAT Youth Talks 3, and recollection
The SUGPAT Alternative School for Peacebuilding and the Arts fellows bid goodbye to the first term of classes. To end the first term of classes, the SUGPAT ALSPA Fellows took their first term final exams prepared by their coaches. During their term break, the fellows participated in SUGPAT HeART Intensives: Photography and Digital Storytelling Workshop,…
Read MoreAteneo Social Development Council organizes SUGPAT Youth Talks 3 on youth vulnerabilities to violent extremism
Seeing the need for educating grassroots communities about the issues on violent extremism in the city, Ateneo de Zamboanga’s Social Development Council (SDC) invited an esteemed researcher from the Institute of Autonomy and Governance (IAG) for the SUGPAT Youth Talks 3 last October 2 at the Subanen Room, Garden Orchid Hotel. IAG research consultant Dr.…
Read MoreZamboanga out-of-school youth tell compelling stories of their communities through film and photography
Joshua Labra was only 16 years old when he quit school to give way for his four other younger siblings’ opportunity to an education. Living off only with the meager income from his mother who worked part-time as a laundry woman and his father who worked as a jeepney driver, Joshua knew, being the eldest, that…
Read MoreYouth converge to re-imagine safe spaces in Zamboanga
Armed with nothing but a handful of art materials, their creative spirits, and the hope for a safer Zamboanga, almost a hundred youth came together to re-imagine safe spaces in Asia’s Latin City last August 17 at Palacio del Sur, Zamboanga City. In line with the National Youth Commission’s celebration of International Youth Day with…
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