Thursday, May 1, 2014

MILF: United Overseas Bangsamoro sponsors Seminar-Workshop on Community Organizing

From the MILF Website (Apr 29): United Overseas Bangsamoro sponsors Seminar-Workshop on Community Organizing



The United Arab Emirates-based United Overseas Bangsamoro (UOB-UAE) in partnership with the Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI) sponsored a three day Seminar workshop on Community Organizing with the theme “Empowering towards Community Organizing” on April 26-29, 2014 at the BLMI Training Hall, Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
  
Brother Shaek Mama, member of the Board of Directors of UOB –UAE facilitated the program assisted by the BLMI Steering Committee members and Staff.

Sheikh Mahmod S. Ahmad, BLMI Executive Director welcomed the participants comprising  Bangsmaro Overseas Workers, student leaders, government &private employee representing their respective organization / associations. He also informed the participants about how the BLMI was created and its various programs.

The program was aimed at developing the potentials of the participants in community organizing, conduct of advocacies and relevant knowledge and skills deem necessary in their current undertakings.

Professor Esmael Abdula, BLMI Training Unit Officer and Chairman on Mass mobilization and campaign, an MILF –Sub Committee on Information was one of the speakers.

He gave the overview of the program and updated the participants on vital issues related to the GPH-MILF Peace process issues and the salient contexts of Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro  (CAB).  He also mentioned about the BLMI main components and its intervention through capacitating the Bangsamoro prospective future leaders and managers
















Resource speaker Mr. Cris T. Yano lectured on the fundamental steps of community organizing. In the last two days of the activity his discussions focused on the comprehensive principles of community organizing and its applications and followed by workshops on SWOT Analysis (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) on relevant issues normally encountered by organizations or institutions at present.

On the last day, Professor Abdula lectured on Cycle and Process of Organizing and emphasized its essential concepts and its application in a workshop where the participants were able to thrash out the given problem through group discussions.

In the closing program the participants expressed their heartfelt gratitude to UOB-UAE for the assistance they extended and to the BLMI for the successful conduct of the program where the participants’ potentials where undoubtedly enhanced. The same expression of gratitude was also made by Brother Mama.

The UOB-UAE is a people’s organization having linkages and chapters in some part of the Middle- Eastern countries. Its members are mostly Bangsamoro Professionals and skilled workers who are presently employed abroad and actively involved in peace building effort in Mindanao and support the GPH- MILF Peace process and to the CAB.  

After the last speaker (Mama) had spoken, the participants were awarded with certificates of participation.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/953-united-overseas-bangsamoro-sponsors-seminar-workshop-on-community-organizing

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