Championing the Youth for Community Leadership

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YOUTH is the critical period in a persons
growth and development from the onset of
adolescence towards the peak of mature,
self-reliant and responsible adulthood
comprising considerable sector of the population
from the age of 15 to 30 years.
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With this definition, the youth is not merely
regarded as an age group but a stage in a
persons development.
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In 2004 , total youth population reached 23.4 M
or about 29.3 o the total Phil. Population of
82.7 M.
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Overall, the priorities and challenges of the
youth revolve around their immediate environment
the self and their family
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The articulated issues of the youth center on
health, education and employment more
specifically those related to sexual risk
behaviors, drug and substance abuse and family
dysfunctions
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The vision of the youth is generally centered on
studies, work and need for social and emotional
security
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Youth participation has hardly (if at all) been
raised as an issue or concern or problem. Could
it be more of complacency? Indifference? Or
disenchantment?
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POVERTY is the deprivation of essential assets
and opportunities to which every human person is
entitled. Less access could mean lower
participation, less voice, hence powerlessness.
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Five essential assets are human capital, physical
capital, natural capital, financial capital, and
social capital
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• Human Capital concerned with Education and Health
• Education Issues
• declining participation rates
• poor quality
• low cohort survival rates

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For every 100 children in the Philippines who
start grade 1, only 67 will complete elementary
schooling This rate is even lower for the poor
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In ARMM, for every 100 children who start
elementary school only 34 finish
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The results of the national achievement test for
SY 2004-2005 indicated that our senior public
high school students posted an average of only
46.80, and grade 6 pupils, 59.73 only
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Those families whose head has little or no
education at all are generally poor. But the
largest proportion of our population has had
elementary schooling. This contributes to about
35
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• Health Issues
• A very high incidence of tuberculosis ranked
  8th in the world by the World Health Organization
  (WHO)

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• Poor quality and inaccessibility of public
  health care services
• High costs of medicines

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Education and health are closely correlated. Ex.
Mothers who are participating in Barangay health
programs, therefore properly informed on
nutrition are able to breastfeed their infants,
observe sanitation and able to feed their
children better
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• Physical Capital
• Concerned with
• water
• housing / shelter
• infrastructure services such as
  energy, transport
• and communication

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Government housing assistance programs have
barely reached the poor, for a variety of reasons
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• a lack of information on assistance programs and
  how to access them
• eligibility requirements that discriminate
  against the poor
• an emphasis on mortgage finance

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Natural Capital In rural areas, access to land
is one of the main determinants of welfare
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Poor environmental conditions adversely affect
human capital, growth, and distributional
equity Concern for clean air is imperative
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Forest cover has been reduced to less than one
fifth of total land area. Logging, mining, and
encroachment of settlements in critical
watersheds are all to blame
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Social capital comprises the social resources on
which people are able to draw, through networks
and connectedness and relationships of trust and
reciprocity Family, friends, social and
community organizations
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To promote increased participation in development
processes through membership in local and
community organizations
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Financial capital denotes the financial services
available to the people thru savings, credit,
wages, pension and forms of remittances
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Because of this, access to easy credit is an
important part of the consumption of the poor.
Microfinance is one such avenue
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The Philippines is the 3rd highest recipient of
remittances in the world
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The reality is Those families whose main source
of income is foreign remittances from a spouse or
relative abroad, are largely based in urban areas
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Remittances are often utilized in excessive
consumption instead of re channeling them to
pro-poor programs e.g. investing in business that
gives employment to the poor members of the
community
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• Causes of Poverty
• weak macroeconomic management
• employment issues
• high population growth rates
• an underperforming agricultural sector and an
  unfinished land reform agenda

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• governance issues including corruption and a
  weak state
• conflict and security issues including
  criminality, law and order
• disability

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In 2003, the annual national relative poverty
threshold was P 85,000.00 per family or P 17,000
per capita. While rate of family income
increased from 2000 to 2005, the real income
failed to meet adequately family subsistence
needs. Generally, the family income can hardly
cope with inflation
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The disabled in the country is estimated to have
reached 8 M. Disability is cause of poverty.
Poverty causes disability
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• Importance of investments in
• human capital
• Adequate skills and knowledge
• Good health

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In assessing poverty situations, we also look
beyond income. Gender and age are related issues
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In May 2000, our population was recorded at 76.5
M in July 2005, it is estimated to have reached
87.5M, or an annual 2.30 growth rate over the
past 5 years
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Ours is an overwhelmingly young population. In
2000, the recorded median is 21 years old. A
quarter of the population is below 9 years old.
60 of the female population belong to the 15 to
49 year-old bracket
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Education is not merely an accumulation of
knowledge
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• able to discern
• weigh things
• evaluate
• to be sensitive
• to be aware/conscious

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to decide well and RESPOND THROUGH RESPONSIBLE
ACTION
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EVERYTHING THAT WE LEARN SHOULD BE ABLE TO LEAD
US TO ONE DIRECTION SERVICE
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All these human economic, social issues are NOT
mere problem situations but OPPORTUNITIES TO
SERVE
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Education, whether public or private, forms not
just individuals but a whole nation
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Through these schools, what kind of citizens, or
better yet, what kind of persons do we want our
children and youth to become, in effect, also
asking, what kind of nation do want to be?
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Academic education allows us to be magaling
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But real education enables us to be mabuti
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PERSONHOOD CAN COME FROM A SENSE OF BELONGING TO
A COMMUNITY WHERE EACH ONE IS ACCEPTED AS A FULL
MEMBER
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FREE TO BE ONESELF TO CREATE, TO PARTICIPATE, TO
EXPRESS ONESELF, TO RECEIVE, TO SHARE, TO
ENCOURAGE
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CHURCH OF THE POOR
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• A CALL TO CONVERSION
• A CALL TO A LOVE OF PREFERENCE FOR THE POOR

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• A CALL FOR LEADERS AND MEMBERS TO GIVE TIME AND
  
• ATTENTION AND GENEROUSLY SHARING RESOURCES IN
  ORDER TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY

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• A CALL FOR US TO TEACH
• A CALL TO BOLDNESS IN THE DEFENSE OF THE POOR
• A CALL TO HUMILITY AND SIMPLICITY

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WE CANNOT MEET GOD ALONE
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Spirituality is not only personal but societal
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SENSITIVITY
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Immerse in God through prayer and communal action
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For personal reasons It affects me, and my
family also
We are Agents of Change - need to improve my
community
We are Social Advocates - more than just
Philanthropy
I am my Brothers Keeper - the real sense of
Charity
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• Duty as elected official
• Duty as a citizen
• Duty as a child of God
• Duty as steward of Gods creation
• WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH
• OTHER

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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
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I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the
least of these brothers of mine, you did it for
me
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YOU ARE NOT JUST THE NEXT BATCH OF LEADERS
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YOU ARE THE NEW BREED OF SERVANTS