League for the Little Children

The last best experience I had in 2009 was when I traveled the next island and realized how necessary it is to protect our children.

I was out of nowhere when I was picked by Kabataan News Network - Dumaguete Bureau to be one of the lucky delegates for Dumaguete City to the week-long United Nations Children Rights Convention: 20 na, Ano na? or the Regional Media Summit held at Mango Park Hotel in Mango Avenue, Cebu City. Not to mention the all-expense paid trip, great food, meal allowances and the free nights' stroll. =)

With me was my constant companion in KNN crimes, Beverly Zena Jane Linao, and fortunately (but unfortunately) 8 other delegates chosen by the Kapisanan ng Mass Communicators of Silliman University.

A full blog post of our trainings and seminars, as well as our outputs will be pasted here in CupAvenue soon.

Meantime, here are our individual photos during our seemingly grand ground breaking activity for the next step of activities we have to accomplish when we get back to out city:


PRINT GROUP
The Weekly Sillimanian
Silliman University, Dumaguete
*Ang mga kambal tuko. These girls produced two stories entitled "Ang Batang Mahusay" and an English story which were later published in their university paper. The strories centered on the Rights of the Child to education.

(Emmarah Contessa Sarreal, Mary Grace Nidoy)






RADIO GROUP
Silliman On-Air
Silliman University

*The prettiest of them all. hahaha! Their output had the tagline, "Bata, ilayo sila sa lansangan," had all of us touched. After the convention, they also aired their outputs over Killerbee 95.1 and their radio program.




(Alton Jave Tenorio, April Joyce Aquino)

PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP
The Weekly Sillimanian
Silliman University
*These girls aren't beauty queens. They're photographers actually. Their photos on children were then shown in posters and in sideshows during the Human Rights activity at the SU Amphitheater last December.


(Eliora Eunice Bernedo, Ebony-Arriane Lautner)







The VIDEO GROUP
U! TV
Silliman University
and Kabataan News Network (KNN) Dumaguete Bureau
*The toughest of them all! These girls collaborated with us on a video segment entitled, "Tingog," which later hit the local programming scene through a segment on their TV program in U! TV.


(Hannah Leah M Pa-a, Kathrine Mercado)


and finally...


--> eto kami, soo sexy!
Kabataan News Network - Dumaguete
we produced, together with U! TV a touching video on the Rights of the Child to participation, letting people realize that their little voices have a say to the present generation.

(Videos, photos, and audio recordings to be published here soon)

(Joel Aba, Beverly Zena Jane Linao)

The Search that was

Beauty, Brains, and Body - these are three essential factors a candidate should possess in pageants like the most talked-about search, the Mr. and Ms. Negros Oriental State University 2010.

Basing these factors in choosing the year's Queen last December 1, i should honestly say, as one of the hosts, that such didn't climbed up to my expectations of quality pageantry. I had the doubt that it may have turned more as an exploitation (as many feminists say).

But honestly, it was not all that... this year's search traversed the boundaries of pageantry (or exploitation) and had successfully surmounted up to the total entertainment expectations of many people who wills to see women and men in the highlights of their lives.

And contrary to whatever exploitation feminists explain, pageants like this will always be a celebration of masculinity and femininity; the celebration of one's success.

*Here are some during the annual search for the Mr. and Ms. NORSU.