Students attend YLS in Guihulngan City

From the Philippine Information Agency (Nov 28): Students attend YLS in Guihulngan City

GUIHULNGAN CITY, Negros Oriental – Some 118 fourth year high school students of Guihulngan National High School-Hilaitan Trinidad Annex participated in a recent Youth Leadership Summit (YLS) organized by 11th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, the city government and other line agencies.
The YLS that was held on Nov. 22-24 at the said school in Brgy. Trinidad that aims to empower youth in their role in building a morally and spiritually upright society, according to 1st Lt. Von Ryan Gomez , Civil Military Operations Officer.

Representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Education (DepEd) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) gave lectures on leadership and team building, youth empowerment, drug addiction and criminality prevention, health and sanitation, social awareness, marriage and human sexuality and the AFP Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan.”

Aside from lectures, another highlight of the YLS were team building activities that stressed the value of teamwork and cooperation in achieving a common goal.

Student participants were divided into six groups and were tasked to make an interpretative dance of the song “Bayanihan” in their culminating activity.

“The teams were very enthusiastic in their presentation, always emphasizing cooperation and teamwork as the key to a harmonious relationship with everyone and in accomplishing a common goal. Peaceful resolutions of conflicts were also stressed in their interpretative dances, abhorring violent means to impose one’s arguments on others to make a point,” Lt. Gomez described.

This was the second YLS conducted in Brgy. Trinidad in Guihulngan City, the first was in September 2012.

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