School-based Programs and Tools for the Promotion of Responsibility in the Community

The Center for Positive Futures is a technical-vocational high school for economically disadvantaged families. Aware that schoolchildren from these families can hardly afford college education, the school is preparing the students for work or higher technical education after graduation. It is also assisting parents in income generation. Also, it believes that the school should go beyond teachers, but rather, interacting with and making a developmental impact on the community.

Simultaneous programs are ongoing that include the Practice of Community and Environmental Responsibility in partnership with other local public elementary schools, A Library of Human Responsibilities that would serve both the school population and the community-at-large, A Girl Children’s Day celebration of the Women’s Month last March 2005, and a painting program.

16 May 2006
Painting Messages for the Earth, 2006 by Virtudes A. BOBIS

The Center for Positive Futures culminated its program towards promoting environmental responsibility among schoolchildren by conducting the 2nd Painting Messages for the Earth program. From rurban San Mateo and Montalban in the province of Rizal, this year’s environmental responsibility program was brought to the rural municipalities of Puerto Princesa in the island-province of Palawan and of Sta. Rosa in Nueva Ecija, north of Manila. The program was also held in the municipality of (...)

17 March 2006
Video as a tool for a debate by Pinky CASTELO CUPINO

Responsibility at school

Promotion of the Charter of Human Responsibilities, Philippines - The Girl Children’s Day - 2 June 2005, by Pinky CASTELO CUPINO

Rights and responsibilities, Life Experience - Each of us has an experience that changed our lives forever.

Practicing Community and Environmental Responsibility in Schools - 26 April 2005, by Nenet ESCARTIN

This project was conducted by high school students of the Center for Positive Futures (CPF) as part of their Social Studies class. The activity centered on partnering with a class in a public elementary school around the general notion of environmental responsibility, involving four classes of students in CPF and four elementary school classes in four different public elementary schools. Two classes taught their counterpart how to engage in vermiculturing and vermicomposting as a means of community waste management. Vermiculturing is culturing earthworms to produce organic composts from their waste, using dried leaves as earthworm feeds. Another class will build up a seedling bank for replanting. And the last class would make a play and dramatize (...)

A Library of Human Responsibilities - 7 January 2005, by Pinky CASTELO CUPINO

The Library of Human Responsibilities was set up as a community library within the school library of the Center for Positive Futures in Barangay Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal. Featuring in the library are books, documentaries and films which promote environmental and social responsibility. The Library shall sponsor a series of activities to encourage developing responsibilities of community (...)

Girl Children’s Day - 29 June 2005, by Noli ALCANTARA ABINALES, Pinky CASTELO CUPINO

The Charter Facilitation Team in the Philippines co-sponsored the holding of a Girl Children’s Day, together with the Buklod Tao Foundation, the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging(CFCA), and the Center for Positive Futures. March is Women’s Month. This project involved organizing a Girl Children’s Day Celebration last March 5, 2005. One hundred girl children ages 11 to 14 participated in this event. Most of the participants come from the public schools, and are from poor families.

Painting Messages for the Earth - 7 January 2005, by Nenet ESCARTIN

Co-sponsored with the Center for Positive Futures, the Painting Messages for the Earth was undertaken with the participation of the Department of Education and the public schools in San Mateo and Montalban in Rizal, a province adjacent to Metropolitan Manila. 46 schoolchildren from fifteen schools participated in a painting and slogan contest was held March 22, 2004 in Villa Milagros, Montalban. Winners of the contest joined the Summer Nature Camp held April 14-16, 2004 at Lucban, Quezon. The contest and camp program involved a discussion of responsibilities of children to the environment through different teaching and learning strategies. The Charter itself was disseminated among the participants, their parents, teachers and the administrative officials of the participating (...)