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By BONG D. FABE Contributing Editor
CAGAYAN de Oro City-The youth are so-called “rough diamonds” just “waiting to be discovered” and polished to reveal their full value to nation-building. This was the message of both Mayor Oscar “Oca” S. Moreno and Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. (BMFI) pioneer and chairman emeritus Charlito “Kaloy” Z. Manlupig during the launching of the Leadership Communities (LeadCom 2015) at the Balay Mindanaw Peace Center recently. LeadCom, a program of Ayala Foundation that is being implemented in partnership with BMFI, JCI Kagayhaan Gold, Ayala Young Leaders Alumni Association – Region 10, Ayala Business Club - Cagayan de Oro, and the Local Government Unit of Cagayan de Oro, aims
BMFI pioneer and chairman emeritus Kaloy Manlupig shares his experiences learning precious gems under a formator whom he recently met in the US after 40 years. Also in photo are Mayor Oca Moreno, who leads barangay chairpersons in the signing of the ‘Commitment Tarp’ during the launching of the LeadCom 2015, and Archimedes Velasco, location lead for Mindanao for the Ayala Foundation, Inc., who narrates the impact of the LeadCom program to the communities. Mindanao Daily News photo by Bong D. Fabe
to empower the youth to ties through projects they get involved in addressing themselves will propose, pressing needs and issues plan, and implement. “The youth is a potent in their own communi-
human resource with the capacity to convey learning and become catalysts of change; they have important
views about issues that both confront and represent them and other sectors. Since the youth do not have much vested personal interests that are observed in the position and assertion of adults, their ideas and views are nearer to the truth and need of people,” said Romcy Madronio, program lead of LeadCom. Thus, they need guidance and training, which LeadCom is providing. “We are all talents waiting to be discovered…Sooner or later, moabot kanang tawo o institusyon o grupo nga maoy makadiskubre kanato (that person or institution or group who will discover us will come),” Manlupig said, as he narrated that he, too, underwent mentorship or formation when he was a youth and that the principles that was inculcated into him by his formator help make Balay Mindanaw what it is today. “In a sense, kining Balay
Mindanaw produkto siya sa usa ka (Balay Mindanaw is a product of a) youth formation program…Daghan sa akong gidala nga mga prinsipyo nga ako usab napaambit sa Balay Midnanaw gikan kaniya, akong mentor (Many of the principles that I am able to share with Balay Mindanaw came from him, my mentor),” he shared. LeadCom, however, “will not make you a perfect individual,” Moreno said. But the program “gives [the youth] a better idea what it takes to serve.” Moreno also stressed that while the modern world of the youth of today is very different from the times when he was still a young man, but “the fundamentals remain the same.” “Ang inyong gaagian karon (What you are going through now) make you what you will be in the future. To put it differently: unsay inyong paingan See youth, page A11