Product Booklet - The Philippines - Create Every Day

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Climate change has been leaving its devastating marks on The Philippines – a country that constantly suffers from destructive natural disasters. Countless people are dying, moving, losing their homeland every year. At UN climate summit in Warsaw, Mr Yeb Sano, Philippines lead negotiator said: “We refuse, as a nation, to accept a future where super typhoons like Haiyan become a fact of life. It is now time to take action. It is time to stop this madness”.

However, this ambition can’t be achieved by the Philippines alone. As young Vietnamese, we can reach out our helping hands by participating in social projects on literacy, environment or entrepreneurship that nurtures a strong generation of Filipino who would stand up to fight the country’s environmental issues. The Philippines is truly a living example of leading through challenges by being solution-oriented despite uncertainties.

What Impact will you make?

REAP

LEGACY

Wonder

Lifeboat

A project on education of nutrition and awareness of urban farming in the Philippines...

A project on education and literacy, where interns both teach children/students and motivate them to achieve their goal for life...

A meaningful project tackling the disconnection between disabled people and their community...

Lifeboat aims to not just respond to the disaster but to equip relevant people with the knowledge in order to minimize its effects...

REAP

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Project start day: May 23rd Project end day: July 4th

The reality Under-nutrition in the Philippines remains a serious problem.

Available data show large numbers of Filipino children are undernourished: 3.6 million of children 0-59 months are underweight; and 4 million are stunted. Moderate - severe iodine deficient population increased from 11% to 20% for children 6-12 years. The damage to health, physical growth and brain development of these children is often irreversible, impairing them for life and leaving them with lower chances of finishing school and becoming highly-productive adults.

Project REAP

How we help?

REAP is an AIESEC AdMU project that advocates the importance of nutrition and development of urban farming in the Philippines.

Exchange participants will get the chance to promote positive change through educating communities about nutrition and participating in the development of urban farms in Manila in order to move towards a more sustainable means of living for Filipinos.

What’s my job in the project?

Key learning points Training

Interns will undergo workshops with experts to enhance their knowledge on nutrition and urban farming techniques.

Nutrition

Interns will be teaching local communities about the basics of nutrition and the importance of it.

Urban farming

Project REAP

Interns will be either working on established urban farms or working on developing from scratch, depending on the needs of the community at the time.

 Interns will be exposed to the social realities in the Philippines, particularly regarding the nutritional state of underprivileged Filipinos and the state of urban farming in the Philippines.  Interns will learn about healthy and sustainable methods and programs that will aid them in promoting change within the partner communities.  Interns will immerse themselves in the Filipino lifestyle and will be experience the Philippine culture upclose and personal.

LEGACY

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Project start day: May 23rd Project end day: July 4th

How we help?

The reality Education is never and will never be removed from the Philippines' long list of dilemmas. The country is currently facing different issues, including the decline in the quality of the Philippine education, especially at the elementary and secondary levels; a big disparity in educational achievements across social groups, with much higher drop-out rates in the group of disadvantaged students; and a "mismatch" between training and actual jobs, leading to a large number of educated unemployed or underemployed.

Project LEGACY

LEGACY is an AIESEC AdMU project that allows Exchange Participants (EPs) to lead change by teaching children and the youth; empowering and inspiring them to keep learning in order to achieve greater goals, their dreams, and to contribute to the the Filipino nation.

What’s my job in the project?  Teach children and youth in alternative, creative, and innovative activities that will help support their formal education.  Converse with the children and youth beyond the lesson plans, in order to empower them as people, and as citizens.  Contribute to the sustainability and the progress of the project by sharing lesson plans and activities that they plan for the communities, as well as provide honest and constructive feedback regarding current partners, the progress of the students, and the Organizing Committee.  Document their progress throughout the duration of their experience.

Project LEGACY

Key learning points  Gain a broader understanding of the global issue of education.  Learn to be able to adapt to a foreign environment.  Gain cultural exposure, not just from close interaction with Filipinos and our culture, but also their fellow Exchange Participants.  Learn to value patience, prevalent when dealing with uncooperative students.  Have the opportunity to gain the joy and fulfillment that can only be found in the spirit of volunteerism.

Wonder

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You can participate in the project any dates from March until August

The reality For a long time, Filipinos with disabilities have suffered from discrimination. Their economic, social, and political rights have not been recognized and their access to educational opportunities and government services has been limited.

Often, many live in isolation and insecurity. There are about 4 million children and youth with disabilities, of whom only 2 percent go to school and 1 percent are properly diagnosed.

Project Wonder

How we help?

Project WONDER exists to empower the Philippine people with disabilities (PWD) community. Here, we believe that people with special needs, who are often looked down on in society, deserve to be heard. The project seeks to foster acceptance and empower PWDs, in congruence with one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: Reducing Inequality. We aim to contribute to this goal's target of empowering and promoting the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status, by 2030.

What’s my job in the project?

Fundraising Throughout the exchange, they will be fundraising for another NGO, Virlanie Foundation. Virlanie provides housing for street children, including children with special needs. The mothers of the street children are supported by the organization through livelihood programs, in which they make bags and jewellery. These are the products that the EP will be selling, all for a good cause.

Volunteer at schools The last two weeks interns will be volunteering in an elementary school to plan and execute activities to integrate students with special needs and those without. It is the EPs job to create a platform of interaction between the two, which will hopefully break barriers of discrimination and prejudice and foster acceptance

Project Wonder

Working at 2 NGOs For the first four weeks, they will be interning at two partner NGOs: three days per week at Tahanang Walang Hagdanan (TWH) and two days per week at the Philippine Society for Orphan Disorders (PSOD).

TWH is an NGO that aims to uplift the lives of the orthopedically-handicapped persons through livelihood workshops where the PWD are trained to be productive and self-reliant members of the society.

PSOD, on the other hand, is the only NGO in the Philippines that deals with people with very rare hereditary disorders. During their internship here, interns will be visiting patients, and participate in the organization of PSOD's awareness events.

Lifeboat

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You can participate in the project any dates from March until August

The reality The Philippines is one of the countries most prone to natural disasters. Every year around 20 storms hit the country, some of which killed thousands and displaced millions. To reduce the number of victims and the exploding costs, the Philippines in 2010 passed a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan. It proposed changing the reactive strategy to a preventive one.

Project Lifeboat

How we help?

Project Lifeboat aimed at developing communities in the Philippines towards disaster resilience and environmental awareness. Lifeboat aims to not just respond to the disaster but to equip relevant people with the knowledge in order to minimize its effects. EPs will work closely with NGOs in order to learn the skills and knowledge needed to be applied in the chosen partner community where the EP will work in during the latter half of his/her stay here. The end goal of this project is to create a community that is self-aware of its weaknesses in terms of disaster but as well in knowing how to identify and act upon them.

What’s my job in the project?

The internship is divided into two parts: learning, and application.

In cooperation with different non-government organizations that specialize disaster management and environmental awareness, the interns will participate in training programs in the first four to six weeks. They will learn about the fundamentals of disaster management as well as participate in the operations of these NGOs. In the last two weeks of their internship, they will be able to apply what they have learned by imparting the skills they've acquired to a chosen local community to promote a culture of environmental social responsibility and disaster risk management.

Project Lifeboat

Key learning points The interns will have learned how the present state of urban disaster risk management here in the Philippines and especially in a smaller scale. Interns will also learn how to interact with people in the community when promoting environmental awareness and disaster risk reduction.