STUDENTS ACTIONS VITAL TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND

MOTHER EARTH MOVEMENT

(Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations of the Philippines for 2003)
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MESSAGE
As the Movement celebrates its 18th year
anniversary on January 31, 2014, it is also
holding the 6th SAVE ME Movement National
Convention focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction
Management and Climate Change Adaptation on
the
theme:
Actionable
Knowledge,
Knowledgeable Action: Knowledge and
Action towards Disaster Management and
Community Resilience, at one of the most beautiful beaches in the world,
Boracay.
With our country devastated by natural and man-made disasters, practically
all participants to the convention have direct or indirect experience with
disaster. Fresh from the devastation of super typhoon Yolanda, strong
earthquake that has shaken the island of Bohol and Cebu and the Zamboanga
city siege among others in 2013, the threat and dread of disasters are
becoming stronger by the day. The effectiveness of the government, national
and local, to manage these disasters is seriously put to test. Meanwhile, the
impacts of these disasters are pushing our people to the brink of suffering,
despair and hopelessness. Images of death, injuries and destruction of
properties and sources of livelihood abound. These grim images are played in
all forms of media. The great and exacting challenge is posed upon the
academe, the repository of knowledge and moulders of experts that will
provide for solutions to abate, if not to stop nature and man-made wrath, local
government units, civil society and everyone.
The 6th National Convention of 2014 will gather leaders from the academe, the
local government and the civil society to share and listen to actual experience
on disaster with the end of enhancing the creation of knowledge on
vulnerability, risk, capability and disaster through research to come up with
actionable knowledge that can be the basis of knowledgeable action in
managing risk of disasters. As guardians of the most important element of the
universe life, I commend the participants and wish them well in their valiant
stance to be in the proactive line in addressing disaster risk exacerbated by
climate change.
To all movers in the country and elsewhere, congratulations! Let us celebrate
our 18th year anniversary with a stronger resolve to push our advocacy carried
not by the ways of Public Relations but driven by a heart and mind of a Mover.
MABUHAY TAYONG LAHAT!
HAPPY 18TH ANNIVERSARY, SAVE ME MOVEMENT!

EDWIN CHINEL MONARES, DPA

Founder and Executive Director