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Mothers weeping are a common scene nowadays as dengue fever is taking the lives of children living in Philippine provinces. These are infants, toddlers – kids mostly below the age of 10.

While a bullet-and-blood-filled-hostage-drama is taking place in Manila, a record high of 40,000 cases of Dengue (48% higher in 2009) continues to rise killing children in ill-equipped hospitals and health centers in both urban and rural areas.

When will we start saving lives?

Reducing child mortality globally is one among the Millenium Development Goals. Accessible and efficient healthcare services are keys to the solution. The World Health Organization needs international support in order for them to provide what is necessary to start saving lives. And so we need to act now.

Arms Down to end War. Hands up to give Healthcare.

To give chance to lives, instead of losing them in war and nuclear destruction, the Arms Down Philippines campaign is set to raise 1 million signatures (50 million worldwide) to petition the UN to cut military spending and hand it over to development projects here in the Philippines – healthcare included.

Internationally, Arms Down.net brings together the religions for peace to work out a signature campaign project. Signatures from people of different races and places all over the globe are meant to ask all governments to make an official pledge to cut their military budgets by 10%. This will then be re-allocated to funds toward the millennium development goals.

If we do not want to see another baby dying of Dengue, if we do not want another helpless mother losing her child to a deadly mosquito bite, then take your stand to save lives!

Join Arms Down Philippines signature campaign!

26 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

The lowly kariton has saved young lives – Drug users turned teacher volunteers. Youth gangsters became educated teens. Filthy slum kids practised proper hygiene. All these because of the modest-turned-CNN award-winning “Kariton Klasrum” by Efren Penaflorida, Jr.

Efren, or “Kuya Ef” is the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year. In his character, the whole world has seen that even the poor can make a huge difference in society. Efren is one of the many Filipino youths who belonged to a family with difficult economic circumstances. Who would have thought that he would become one of the founders of the Dynamic Teen Company (DTC), the creator of the “Kariton Klasrum”

Kariton Klasrum by the Dynamic Teen Company

The “Kariton Klasrum” is an alternative means to educate poor children in slums about basic hygiene and values formation. The ‘Kariton’ is literally a wooden push cart that strolls around the slums to cater to children of the poor. It is loaded with books, pens and paper, and other school materials that aid in teaching unschooled and labor-exploited youths. The project has also reached out to give first-aid treatments and feeding programs to these children to complete its core mission of: K4 – Kariton, Klasrum, Klinik at Kantin. Because of the “Kariton Klasrum”, both younger and teen-aged youths from the slum recognized their dignity as any child with human rights.

Anyone of us can turn a hopeless child into a promising youth of the future.
Here’s how you can help push the Kariton Klasrum.

DTC was founded in August 1997 with just one push cart launched in Cavite by four teen-agers of Cavite National High School. Currently, President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the Department of Education to look into the “Kariton Klasrum” model as an alternative to conventional teaching.

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16 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The pencil is no longer just for writing. It can heal people with cancer too!

The Black Pencil Project is supporting Step Juan: A Walk for Children with Cancer. Step Juan believes in the dream of one man, Tomas Leonor to raise funds for cancer-inflicted children of the Cancer Warriors Foundation. The walking journey will send participants to travel without vehicle from North to South – Pagudpod (North Luzon) to Sorsogon (South Luzon). Ample stops will be given for food and rest only.

Edwin Karganilla, the co-founder of the Black Pencil Project promises to donate ten (10) pencils for every kilometre covered by the walk. These will in turn, be given to the preferred beneficiary of Leonor.

The walk for a cause has begun since January 11, 2010. The Black Pencil Project is looking at a figure of 12, 940 pencils to give away by the end of Step Juan.  The mission is not just to provide pencils, but to heal the wounds of a child with cancer by giving him a chance to live a normal childhood.

How is this possible? It starts with “step one” – support the cause.

Here’s how you can help

09 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments