Sunday, June 1, 2014

LCDE 2014 Summer Youth Camp


LCDE, 2014 SUMMER YOUTH CAMP


SILAGO, SOUTHERN LEYTE – From May 14-18, 2014 LCDE held a Summer Youth Camp in Silago which aims to raise the awareness of participants on PLAN and LCDE’s project through the activities’ theme of “Setting Direction for Development”. Participants were youth from LCDE’s project areas in Silago aged 12 to 22. PLAN Philippines and LCDE have been partners since 2012 implementing their project entitled “Adaptation to Climate Change by Strengthening Natural Resilience” funded and supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The Youth Camp began with post typhoon updates and was followed with activities such as plays, community broadcast workshops, song writing, poetry, and visual arts, where participants were given the choice of events to take part in. All these were aimed to increase the awareness and capacity of youth to actively participate in being advocates for climate change by developing various technical and organizational skills which lasted for five (5) days.

Participants were very grateful as not all of them are always given the opportunity to engage in skill building activities. LCDE also provided expert facilitators from DAWATAN Northern Samar Arts Council, Inc for theatrical activities, Young Heart PLAN for videography, photography and song writing; and FARDEC a known NGO based in Cebu that implements Food Security programs. 

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