Free cleft lip and palate surgery for children

Start:	May 28, '08
End:	May 30, '08
Location:	Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel

If you know children with cleft lip (no age limit) or palate (till 12 y/o), send them to SOFITEL HOTEL to pre-register for a free surgery. Contact CAROL TAMPUS at 551-5555 at HRD for pre-screening on May 22, 2008.

Free surgery is sponsored by CARITAS and OPERATION SMILE. Actual operation is on May 28-30, 2008. Kindly inform others. Thank you.. Pass Around!

Exhausted...

British photographer Tim Hetherington has won the World Press Photo top honor for 2007. "Exhausted," his photograph of a US soldier in the Korengal Valley in the Eastern province of Afghanistan beat more than 80,000 other images submitted this year.

Here's a quick look at the winning images of World Press Photo awards for the year 2007.

Judges described the World Press Photo of the year by Britain's Tim Hetherington for Vanity Fair magazine as an image that shows "the exhaustion of a man - and the exhaustion of a nation".

"We're all connected to this. It's a picture of a man at the end of a line," jury chairman Gary Knight said.

"There's a human quality to this picture," said juror MaryAnne Golon.

"It says that conflict is the basis of this man's life."

World Press Photo is held every year since 1955 and has been regarded as the "world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest". A travelling exhibition around the world is also held in line with the organization's concern with "stimulating developments in photojournalism and encouraging transfer of knowledge" initiatives.

Ayala Museum and SM Malls played host to the exhibition for the past two years. Unfortunately, a review of the World Press Photo website showed the Philippines has been excluded for this year's exhibition.

Visit www.worldpressphoto.org for more information. Photos and information from BBC and Australian Broadcasting Company websites.

REALIZING NEW POLITICS with Gov. Grace Padaca, Gov. Ed Panlilio and Nicanor Perlas

Start:	May 16, '08 6:00p
Location:	PETA Theater Center 5 Eymard Drive, E. Rodriguez, Quezon City, Philippines (behind Quezon City Sports Club)

REALIZING NEW POLITICS
with Gov. Grace Padaca, Gov. Ed Panlilio and Nicanor Perlas


P100 (P50 for Students)

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."

~ Vaclav Havel







Is new politics in the horizon? How did it come about? Why is it finally on its way? What are the driving forces behind it? Why does it have a possibility to emerge in 2010?

The struggle for a new Philippines has to take place in the areas of culture, politics, and economics. We come together to focus on the turbulent and highly charged area of politics and ask our burning questions.

www.pagasa.net.ph

phone: +639175251924

Crayon Forum for kids of Quirino Avenue

 

"Enweys, gusto ko lang sana kayong yayain na magvolunteer sa isang writing workshop para sa mga batang nakatira sa ilalim ng tulay.  Sila ay part ng community ng ATD Fourth World check out their site http://www.atd-fourthworld.org/. Di pa namin naseset ang exact date pero malamang Sabado gaganapin to. 

 

Karamihan sa mga batang 'to yung mga namamalimos sa kalye, di makapag-aral kasi walang pera ang mga magulang.  Karamihan sa kanila ang daming galis sa katawan kasi hindi naarawan at nakakaligo kasi yung perang pampaligo nila nilalaan na lang nila sa pagkain nila.  Karamihan sa kanila yung mga batang madudungis na iniiwasan natin sa kalye. 

 

Ang ATD ang isang movement na tinataguyod na magkaroon sila ng dignidad kahit na mahihirap sila.  Madami silang volunteers na nagbibigay ng mga arts and crafts workshops sa mga bata.  Iba't ibang forums naman para sa mga magulang nila. 

 

Hindi pa daw sila nagkakaroon ng writing workshops.  Nakakapanghinayang kasi nung minsang naobserbahan ko ang mga batang kasama sa community nila sobrang creative magdrowing.  Malaki ang chances na hindi pa lang natatap ang imagination nila.

 

Sa ngayon, tatlo pa lang kaming nagcoconfirm dito sa workshop na to.  Pagmimeetingan pa namin ko pano ang modules at kung pano ito ipiprisinta sa mga batang gutom sa kaalaman.  Pero nakapagdesisyon na kami na sa buwan ng Mayo namin gagawin ang event.

 

Kaya hinihikayat ko talaga kayo na tumulong.  Di kailangan na writing workshop din kayo.  Puwedeng arts and crafts.  Puwedeng photography.  Puwedeng basahan niyo sila ng libro.  Puwedeng kahit ano.  Di naman tayo magtatagal.  Isang oras lang naman yun.  Sa may Pandacan o sa kalye dun sa may Quirino Avenue (lugar ng mga holdaper, hehe).

 

Puwede rin namang perang pangmeryenda ng mga bata at gamit para sa workshop (ayan kinakapalan ko na mukha ko). 

 

Sa mga interesado, puwedeng puwede niyo akong i-email: rnavarra@gmail.com.  Puwede rin sa e-mail na ito.  Sa ngayon puro mga kaopisina ko pa lang ang nayaya ko.  Pero iwewelcome rin kayo ng mga batang to. 

 

Salamat!!!"

 

 --Ruth

 

 

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redmark says: Makibahagi tayo, volunteer na!

 

AGOS - Earth Day 2008 Manila celebrations

Start:	Apr 22, '08 07:00a
Location:	Cultural Center of the Philippines

94k concrete!

Billed as the longest highway in the Philippines, the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway is expected to change the face of business and leisure in Northern Luzon. As the shortest, most direct and most efficient link connecting the Subic Bay Freeport and the Special Economic Zone in Zambales, the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and the Central Techno Park in Tarlac, the SCTex will drive the region’s economic development and create greater opportunities for investment, trade and employment.

Be there when SCTex ushers in the future this April 18-20. The 94K Weekend invites guests to live in the fast lane with a thrilling weekend of family fun and sporting events. From lightning speed test-drives to challenging marathons, the 94K Weekend lets guests experience the best the SCTex has to offer.

For more info: www.94kweekend.com

Prudente, "the best PUP president" dies, 81

Nemesio Prudente, the former president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and human rights advocate, died Friday morning in a Cavite hospital due to complications after a prostate operation, the Inquirer reported. He was 81.

A good friend and a fellow academician in PUP, Rogelio Ordoñez called "Doc" Prudente as the best President the University ever had. Ordoñez, Editorial Board Chairman of Pinoy Weekly wrote: "Higit sa lahat, naipunla niya sa PUP ang isang edukasyong may makabayang oryentasyon at mulat sa pambansang kalagayan. Ang diwa ng makabayan at makataong aktibismo at paglaban sa inhustisya ang naipunla niya’t napayabong sa PUP. Sa aba naming palagay, sa mga humalili sa kanya, waring wala pa siyang kapantay sa hindi mapag-imbot na dedikasyon at pagmamahal sa PUP at, lalo na nga, sa pagiging makabayang edukador at progresibong intelektuwal."

Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison in his website remembers Prudente as "an outstanding educator. He rose to the position of president of the Philippine College of Commerce and then the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. But most admirable of him was that he promoted and practised that type of education and life of action that is clearly, resolutely and militantly in the service of the Filipino people in their struggle for national liberation, democracy, social justice, development and peace.

"He articulated a progressive nationalist policy and was ever supportive of the students whenever they joined protest mass actions. He also appointed to the faculty patriotic and progressive teachers. Thus, the PCC became one of the most active centers of the anti-imperialist and democratic student movement in the 1960s, in the First Quarter Storm of 1970 and up to the imposition of martial law on the people.

"Before I went underground in late 1968, I had become close to "Doc" Prudente because I had frequent conversations with him and Prof. Teodosio Lansang over subjects encompassing philosophy, political economy and social science in connection with current events. "Doc" Prudente had a revolutionary outlook and was seriously interested in the revolutionary transformation of Philippine society from a semicolonial and semifeudal status to an independent and democratic one.

"He also actively supported the Movement for a Democratic Philippines, the Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties and the formation of a workers' institute. He cooperated with the Preparatory Commission of the NDFP and subsequently with the NDFP. He was never cowed by threats of arrest and actual detention. In and out of the fascist prison, he was a model of firm resistance and a modest hardworking man among comrades.

"The enemy could not tolerate his ideas and deeds in fighting for the rights of workers, in promoting the united front and in making the PUP an outstanding university of learning and technical training for patriotic and progressive students and teachers.

"But "Doc" Prudente was a steadfast revolutionary patriot. He upheld his principles and courageously put his life, limb and liberty on the line in fighting for the just cause of the Filipino people. In his years of retirement from academic life, he continued to have excellent relations with the revolutionary mass movement, especially with the youth and workers. He was held in the highest esteem by the broad masses of the people. His memory and example will always inspire the people."

 

For more info about Prudente: www.centennial.pup.edu.ph/history/19861990.asp