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Galing Pook Foundation (GPF) Welcomes its New Executive Director
Galing Pook Foundation (GPF) welcomes its new Executive Director, Georgina Ann Hernandez-Yang.
She succeeds Dr. Eddie Dorotan, who led the organization for almost 14 years, and retired in March 2021.
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#BagoTayo Network to hold Webisode for Women’s Month
The #BagoTayo Network is conducting a webisode with a theme “Usapang KKK: Kalagayan ng Kababaihan at Kabataan ngayong COVID-19” on March 10, 2021 at 5:00 in the afternoon.
The Webisode will feature Anna Luna, Secretary General of the Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilya ng Pantawid; Ynnah Marie Barbaso of Silliman University; and, Lalane Mongcal of Northwest Samar State University. Luna will share her experience what it is to be a mother during the pandemic while Barbaso and Mongcal will discuss what it means to be a young female under the community quarantine.
Hosting the event is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the YPEER Philippines, Ralph Ivan Samson. Ms. Oyen Dorotan, National Chairperson of the Women Action Network for Development (WAND) and Georgina Hernandez-Yang, incoming Galing Pook Executive Director, will also be joining the event.
The #BagoTayo Webisode will be streamed live on the Galing Pook Facebook Page.
Launching of the 2021 Galing Pook Awards
A+I Peace and Development Cohort to share stories in times of uncertainties
The 12 cities under the Adapt+Innovate Peace and Development cohort will be sharing their stories of adaptive innovation in times of uncertainties every Wednesday from 1:30PM to 3:30 PM from November 18 to December 9, 2020. The activity, entitled “Adapt + Innovate Stories of 12 Cities in this Time of Uncertainties: Mga Kuwentong Mayor sa Panahon ng Pandemya at Kalamidad”, is brought to you by Galing Pook Foundation, the Local Government Academy, the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the League of Cities of the Philippines.
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Features
Upcoming Events
- Issues and Misconceptions on COVID-19 Vaccines, March 19, 2021, live here or via Galing Pook Facebook Page
- Webisode 13: Women Economic Empowerment under Covid-19
March 24, 2021, 5PM live via Galing Pook Facebook Page
- Adapt+Innovate for Children and Youth: Online Session #9, March 26, 2021
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The A+I Leadership Corner
Calbayog City Mayor Ronaldo P. Aquino, one of the participants to the Adaptive and Innovative Leadership Program — LGA and LCP Cohort was killed on March 8, 2021. Galing Pook Foundation mourns with the people of Calbayog and the family of the Mayor Aquino.
Galing Pook expresses its strong abhorrence to violence, calls for ending these senseless killings, and demands for justice!
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Video outputs of local government units in the Adapt+Innovate GPF-LGA Cohort is available in YouTube at the A+I for Peace and Development playlist.
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The city we deserve now and in the future
By Dok. Eddie Dorotan
There is so much to learn from 2020 as we go ahead in 2021 and beyond.
In normal times, when we look at our cities, we are resigned to see poverty and inequality, inadequate healthcare, chaotic traffic, crumbling infrastructure, pollution and garbage everywhere. This is just the way it has been and will be. It is what it is.
But calamities like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can stir us from the trance of complacency and force us to ask first principle-questions about our cities: What is the community for? How is it put together? What are its basic needs? How should we provide them?
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Iriga’s “Veggies on Wheels”: Addressing challenges on income and nutrition under the pandemic
With the livelihood of Iriga City’s farmers being affected by the lockdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City Government headed by Mayor Madel Alfelor established the program, “Veggies on Wheels”.
The program addresses not only the income aspect of those in the agriculture sector but also the nutrition requirements of the people. Veggies on Wheels allowed the city government to procure vegetables and farm produce from its own farmers and distributed these to households. The project created a market for farmers’ products and families at home. Irigeños continued to have safe access to food during the pandemic through this innovation.
