By: Bennie A. Recebido
SORSOGON CITY, September 10 (PIA) – A
collaborative eco-experience for over 1,500 delegates from 14 municipalities
and other provinces throughout the Bicol region will convene in a forum dubbed
as Eco-Youth Summit 2012 on October
13-14, 2012 at the Provincial Gymnasium, this city.
Said summit is spearheaded by the
Provincial Government of Sorsogon under the leadership of Hon. Governor Raul R.
Lee, Sangguniang Kabataan Provincial Federation led by its President, Board
Member Patrick Lee-Rodrigueza and the Vice Mayor’s League of the Philippines
Vice-President for Luzon, Sorsogon City Vice Mayor Robert Ante Lee-Rodrigueza.
Summit project coordinator Bobby Gigantone
said that the activity will provide the youths across the region with the
opportunity to explore innovative science-based strategies which are socially
and culturally acceptable to create, manage and protect the Bicol’s ecosystem.
Gigantone further said that the summit will
also provide a high-profile platform to encourage exchange of ideas among
researchers, planners and decision-makers to develop a better understanding of
the complex nature of ecological systems and the means to protect and enhance
their services for sustainable development.
“Eco Youth Summit advocates for the rights
of young people and facilitates youth participation in development as well as
provide a network for young people to learn and exchange ideas on a range of
pressing global issues protecting ecosystem for sustainable development,” he
added.
“This also seeks to make government,
schools and communities more responsive to the aspirations of youth for a
better world and to place the actions, experiences and ideas of young people on
local and national agenda,” he said.
The summit will also highlight the Eco
Night Run, the first ever in the province, which is open to all interested
participants. The night run will start at 6:00 pm on October 13, 2012.
Gigantone however stressed out that the
organizers will only allow the entry of participants who have signed their
waver of liability and declaration with medical certificate.
“Participants below 18 years old may join
the race, but their entry forms will be approved or counter-signed by a parent
or legal guardian,” he also said.
Categories for the event race open to the
public include 10k, 5k and 3k (for kids from 12 years old and below) for both
female and male division.
Trophies and cash prizes will be given away
for the top three winners in each race division – P5,000 for the 1st place finisher for the 10k run, P2,000 for
the top 5k runner and special prizes for the Top Three winners of the 3k run.
A special award will also be given to the
biggest delegation who submits a minimum of 25 entries and the family who will
join and cross the finish line together.
Other activities are also lined up such as
Green Supermarket, Mangrove Planting, Green Cinema/Film Festival and
environmental band concert “Tunog Kalikasan”
to make the event more meaningful for the youth delegates.
All interested may keep in touch with the
conference secretariat at telephone number (056) 305-4496 or contact Leny Galan
with mobile numbers 09194588370 and 09175797147 or Joan Basallaje with mobile
number 09219826240 for further inquiries and reservations. (BARecebido, PIA
Sorsogon)
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