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International Coastal Clean-Up. It was started in the Philippines in 1994 and was initiated by the International Marinelife Alliance (IMA) Philippines and Ocean Conservancy based in the Virginia, USA, a non-profit, non-government marine conservation organization whose missions are to conserve marine biodiversity, to protect marine environments and to promote sustainable use of marine resources for the benefit of the local people. The objectives of the International Coastal Clean-Up are the following: (a) to increase awareness on the marine debris crisis and its adverse impact on the people and the environment; (b) to remove debris from the shores, waters, underwaters and waterways; (c) to gather information on the debris collected and submit these to the Ocean Conservancy for inclusion to the study on marine debris; (d) to use the information gathered during the clean-up to influence Local Government Units (LGU’s) to formulate and enact resolutions and ordinances; and (e) to inculcate the importance of a clean, healthy and sustainable marine environment.
Facts: The Philippines has a total of 220,000,000 hectares of territorial water area, 12% of which is coastal and 88% is oceanic. The country’s archipelagic nature has a coastline of 30,000 kilometers long – one of the longest for a single country in the world. The Philippines inland resources comprise 10,6000 kilometers of freshwater, 23,000 kilometers of brackish water swamplands and 25,000 kilometers of lakes, rivers and reservoirs.
Food Security. Our food security concern is necessary to assist our farmers in lobbying to the government to provide projects that will increase their farm productivity (like: irrigation canal, farm to market road, research data on new variety, organic farming, i.e.). Our fishermen and women to provide them education and advocacy to protect our marine environment and alternative fishing techniques and equipment. To our watershed areas to protect and support projects to sustain the bio-diversity (tree planting, advocacy, i.e.) Authentic economic development should continue to strive and explore more ways to achieve a sustainable human development in our region.
Fact 1: Moreover, 73% of employed Bikolanos in 2003 were in the rural areas, whereas about half of the employed were in agriculture. At this percentage, we have to note that the magnitude of poor population is much larger in the rural areas than in the urban. (Source: National Statistics Office, 2003)
Fact 2: Several agricultural conditions complicate this dilemma. Farming is an energy intensive business. Crops must be transported efficiently to market, and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides are widely used. Energy price spikes hurt farmers around the world and in the future are likely to hit with even greater ferocity than the spike in 2007 and 2008. Water scarcity will intensify because of population growth, urbanization, and land use pressures. According to a report by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a half billion people currently live in countries with chronic water shortages, a figure that is expected to rise to 4 billion by 2050. Finally, climate change is challenging farmers on every continent to deal with altered weather patterns, novel agricultural pests, and new water conditions. These challenges will be felt most intensely by smallholders in some of the poorest regions of the world.
(Source: http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Global-Food-Security.html)
Photovoice is a process by which people can identify, represent, and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique. It entrusts cameras to the hands of people to enable them to act as recorders, and potential catalysts for social action and change, in their own communities.
Facts: Photovoice was developed in 1992 by Caroline C. Wang of the University of Michigan, and Mary Ann Burris, Program Officer for Women’s Health at the Ford Foundation headquartered in Beijing, China. The idea was built on the foundation that images and words together can effectively express communities and individual’s needs, problems, and desires.[4] In addition, the concept was strongly influenced by documentary photography, the concept empowerment, feminist theory, Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to promote health education and his idea of critical consciousness.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoice)
Photo novella does not entrust cameras to health specialists, policymakers, or profes sional photographers, but puts them in the hands of children, rural women, grassroots workers, and other constituents with little access to those who make decisions over their lives.
A photo-essay is a set or series of photographs that are made to create series of emotions in the viewer. A photo essay will often show pictures in deep emotional stages. Photo essays range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small comments to full text essays illustrated with photographs.
Photo-elicitation is a method of interview in visual sociology that uses visual images to elicit comments. The types of images used include photographs, video, paintings, cartoons, graffiti, and advertising, among others. Either the interviewer or the subject may provide the images.
Bahay Atenista. The Bahay Atenista Project is a consortium of different student extra and co-curricular organizations in Ateneo under the guidance of Center for Community Development. The project aims to promote a deeper sense of being “men and women for and with others” through a more active and direct involvement in community building. It also aims to assist vibrant community projects that will uplift their lives from poverty.
The Bahay Atenista seeks to establish a strong partnership that integrates the diverse skills and talents of the participating organizations in planning, organizing and building indigenous simple, decent houses in selected communities in Bicol region. In the long run, the project aims to be as vehicle for strengthening the volunteerism among Ateneans.
The Bahay Atenista also opening it’s door to outside partners or donors to sustain our project and build more simple, decent houses and provide education for the less privileged families.
Challenge: Be a volunteer in actual house building and promoter or fundraiser in behalf of your organization.