The Philippine Army’s 82nd Infantry Battalion (82IB) based in Camp Monteclaro, Barangay Igtuba, Miag-ao, Iloilo recently initiated a three-day Youth Leadership Summit for 110 out-of school youths (OSYs) from Antique and Iloilo provinces in its bid to promote peace, unity and development especially in far flung barangays.
The summit with a theme "Youth: Building a Nation Through Unity,” aims to empower the youth sector and develop their leadership and social responsibility as advocates of peace and development within their respective community
Various activities were undertaken to empower the youth like team building activities and lectures that included Community and Personal Development with Ms. Teresa Hortillo, Guidance Service Specialist, OSA, University of the Philippines in the Visayas; Human Rights and the Youth by Christopher Montaño of the Commission on Human Rights; and, Peace Process by Pastor Dexter Robite, head City Light Church, Iloilo.
The youth participants took part in the just concluded Sky Lantern Flying for Peace of the Midway Meditation Institute International which broke the Guinness Book of World Records at UPV campus on May 24, 2013.
The youths who are looked upon as the hope of this nation bears big responsibility to promote peace in this part of the country.
Lt. Col. Aldwine I. Almase, 82nd IB commander, emphasized the relevance of the youth in nation building. He added that his unit's framework in attaining peace and helping in community puts premium in empowering the youth sector and helping them to become socially responsible community leaders.
Almase said the activity was undertaken in partnership with Youth for Peace and Development (YPD), national government agencies, local government units and various organizations in Antique province and
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