a great article recognizing the Filipino's heroism of Peñaflorida, Jr. Read on:
Not just once, but thrice!
Two weeks after winning the celebrated Cable News Network Hero (CNN) Hero of the year award for establishing the Dynamic Teen Company (DTC), Efren Peñaflorida, Jr. continued receiving recognitions and support from various organizations and prominent personalities. The most recent addition to the 28-year-old Caviteñeo’s growing list of commendations is the three awards given to him by the Coca-Cola Foundation, the public service arm of the Coca-Cola Company and the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) in an awarding ceremony held Friday, in a hotel in Pasig City.
TAYO is a non-profit award giving body which recognizes the contribution of the Filipino youth to their community.
Senator Francisco “Kiko” Pangilinan, the founder of TAYO, attended the event and awarded Peñaflorida the copy of the Senate resolution 217 recognizing his invaluable contribution to the children’s education in his community and the prestige he gave the country for winning the CNN award.
“It’s a badge of honor for us. It inspires us to continue to work,” Pangilinan said in his congratulatory speech.
Meanwhile, TAYO president Paolo Benigno Aquino, a grandchild of the late Corazon Aquino, conferred the TAYO kasama award to Peñaflorida for their KKK: Kariton, Klasrum, and Klinik program, where volunteers with pushcarts go to the trash dumpsites in Cavite to teach underprivileged children.
DTC joined the TAYO award twice. The first in 2006 where it failed to be included in the finalist and in 2007 where it became a part of the ten successful recognized organizations. In 2009 Peñaflorida also became a judge in the competition.
The Coca-Cola foundation, represented by its President, Cecil Alcantara gave Peñaflorida his last award in the event, which was a plaque with a reproduction of a painting, “Sa Isang Musmos,” which reflects the simple desires of a child.
“Your life may change, but you would not change,” Alcantara said in her emotional speech recounting the humility Peñaflorida showed despite winning the CNN Hero award.
Aside from interviews from various newspapers, radio and television stations, which includes an appearance in CNN’s Larry King Live, prominent personalities also recognized Peñaflorida’s contribution including Albay Governor Joey Salceda, who adopted Peñaflorida as a son of the city, Cavite Governor Ayong Maliksi, who promised to donate P1 million to DTC, and no less than the President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who bestowed to him the prestigious Order of Lakandula, the highest award given to a civilian.
Peñaflorida arrived at the awarding ceremony together with his mentor Bon Manalaysay, founder of the Club8586, the organization, where DTC is a part of, dedicated in restoring Cavite’s identity as the home of heroes, some of the children who became a part of DTC’s project, and Emmanuel Bagual, the incumbent president of the DTC, who was also nominated as one of the five finalist of the Nobel Peace Prize for Children in Europe for his project “My rights,” which empowers children in pediatric wards by informing them of their rights.
see more from here
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/232595/cocacola-tayo-give-pe-aflorida-3-awards
Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
With wide open arms
Please read on this article about a gallery for democracy by Mara Andres:
It was, perhaps, the most intimate gallery closing I’ve ever witnessed. At most 20 people nestled within the humble walls of the Sigwada Gallery, celebrating democracy in the most solemn way.
The exhibit, Yellow Democracy, was Sigwada’s tribute to the late President Corazon Aquino and also a celebration of the gallery’s first anniversary. Yellow Democracy opened on the 9th of September, aptly on President Aquino’s 40th day. Upon entering Sigwada, you will immediately see that many artists have taken the message and essence of democracy to heart as there were more than 20 artworks which filled the walls of Sigwada. From paintings to photographs and other types of mixed media, the spirit of democracy continues to overflow.
The night was accompanied by the music of Tribung Kayaw, a small group composed of five men with a passion for music and innovation, which shows with the kind of instruments they use: Water gallons, a guitar with some add-ons like Sony playstation buttons which play sound effects among others, and other ethnic instruments.
As Sigwada bids goodbye to Yellow Democracy, it once again opens its arms to another artist whose advocacies include women’s rights and child welfare among others. From Oct. 9, Alma Quinto, a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman, has been holding an exhibit entitled Arms at the Sigwada Gallery.
Alma Quinto is a visual artist and art educator known to have collaborations with marginalized children and women. She has been affiliated with CRIBS Philippines since 1995, Bantay Bata 163, the Philippine Association for Citizens with Developmental and Learning Disabilities (PACDLD) and Project: Brave Kids, a group composed of children afflicted with cancer. Quinto is also an advocate of Greenpeace.
Various organizations have taken recognition of Ms. Alma’s advocacy such as the National Commission for Culture and Arts, where she is a trainer for their Crisis Program, the Department of Education and the United Nations Development Program.
By collecting narratives on opposites such as love and terror, war and peace, she aims to show the contradictions of war and violence and man’s capacity to tame it. In war, we see arms. In peace, we seek the comfort of the arms’ embrace.
What makes this exhibit different and remarkable is how Alma has chosen to reach out her arms to chidren as to empower them that they are capable of expressing their voices, their advocacies through art.
Besides Arms, Alma also held Art Workshops with 15 children from the Kaibigan Ermita Outreach Foundation. She aims to help children in unblocking the creative block, developing their sense of awareness regarding various social and environmental issues surrounding society today. With these workshops, she hopes to empower these children to exercise their rights. Arms lets a child reach for a crayon or a colored pencil so he or she can draw also lets him or her reach out even further.
The Sigwada Gallery reaches out its arms to Ms. Alma and the children as it joins the nation in celebrating the Global March for World Peace.
The Sigwada Gallery is located at 1921 Oroquieta Street, Sta. Cruz Manila. Visit http://www.sigwadagallery.multiply.com
more from here:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideLifestyle.htm?f=2009/december/1/lifestyle4.isx&d=/2009/december/1
It was, perhaps, the most intimate gallery closing I’ve ever witnessed. At most 20 people nestled within the humble walls of the Sigwada Gallery, celebrating democracy in the most solemn way.
The exhibit, Yellow Democracy, was Sigwada’s tribute to the late President Corazon Aquino and also a celebration of the gallery’s first anniversary. Yellow Democracy opened on the 9th of September, aptly on President Aquino’s 40th day. Upon entering Sigwada, you will immediately see that many artists have taken the message and essence of democracy to heart as there were more than 20 artworks which filled the walls of Sigwada. From paintings to photographs and other types of mixed media, the spirit of democracy continues to overflow.
The night was accompanied by the music of Tribung Kayaw, a small group composed of five men with a passion for music and innovation, which shows with the kind of instruments they use: Water gallons, a guitar with some add-ons like Sony playstation buttons which play sound effects among others, and other ethnic instruments.
As Sigwada bids goodbye to Yellow Democracy, it once again opens its arms to another artist whose advocacies include women’s rights and child welfare among others. From Oct. 9, Alma Quinto, a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman, has been holding an exhibit entitled Arms at the Sigwada Gallery.
Alma Quinto is a visual artist and art educator known to have collaborations with marginalized children and women. She has been affiliated with CRIBS Philippines since 1995, Bantay Bata 163, the Philippine Association for Citizens with Developmental and Learning Disabilities (PACDLD) and Project: Brave Kids, a group composed of children afflicted with cancer. Quinto is also an advocate of Greenpeace.
Various organizations have taken recognition of Ms. Alma’s advocacy such as the National Commission for Culture and Arts, where she is a trainer for their Crisis Program, the Department of Education and the United Nations Development Program.
By collecting narratives on opposites such as love and terror, war and peace, she aims to show the contradictions of war and violence and man’s capacity to tame it. In war, we see arms. In peace, we seek the comfort of the arms’ embrace.
What makes this exhibit different and remarkable is how Alma has chosen to reach out her arms to chidren as to empower them that they are capable of expressing their voices, their advocacies through art.
Besides Arms, Alma also held Art Workshops with 15 children from the Kaibigan Ermita Outreach Foundation. She aims to help children in unblocking the creative block, developing their sense of awareness regarding various social and environmental issues surrounding society today. With these workshops, she hopes to empower these children to exercise their rights. Arms lets a child reach for a crayon or a colored pencil so he or she can draw also lets him or her reach out even further.
The Sigwada Gallery reaches out its arms to Ms. Alma and the children as it joins the nation in celebrating the Global March for World Peace.
The Sigwada Gallery is located at 1921 Oroquieta Street, Sta. Cruz Manila. Visit http://www.sigwadagallery.multiply.com
more from here:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideLifestyle.htm?f=2009/december/1/lifestyle4.isx&d=/2009/december/1
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