NEW YEAR, NEW CHALLENGES

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     Goodbye 2019 and hello 2020. All the events that took place into my life in the year 2012 are now just memories, whether it was good or bad, happy or sad. Every ending that I have experienced in my life was because something better was coming. If my life had never been full with endings and changes, everything that I have experienced in my life would have never happened. I am where I am now because something in my past have changed and made me this way. Something that has ended in my past has allowed me to have new opportunities and challenges in my life, and the outcomes I got were always positive.

      In my case many things have ended: relationships, friendships, and those endings had led me to the place I am now. Every single new opportunity and new challenge that I have experienced was possible because an ending had taken place in my past. In those moments when something ends, it is very difficult to see a new beginning. For instance, when a relationship ends, we normally do not see that as a new beginning or as a new opportunity, we see that as a painful ending, and the sorrow and frustration we feel in our hearts in those cases consume our spirit, making it impossible for us to see that as new beginning.

     Every ending is always a new beginning. When something ends, something new begins and a new beginning is always a new opportunity. Learning to see the end of something as an opportunity rather than a punishment would help to change our whole life experience in the moment when we begin a new chapter in our lives.

     May the year 2020 bring us fresh start, new aspirations, and inspiring successes. Walk with grace and achieve greater heights.

REFLECTION

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Memories that will never be forgotten. I tried things I never did before. I learned different things. I considered learning as my new favorite thing to do.

During my third quarter in our subject ICT, I learned how to make my own website. I learned the different parts of the Microsoft Front Page. Working in Microsoft Front Page is much easier than working on Notepad. It was very tiring and disgusting when it comes to editing web pages. But somehow, I realized that learning how to edit add hyperlinks and interactive buttons in my web pages is more fun than just adding html tags. I found the magic of microsoft frontpage by the use of interactive buttons and hyperlinks.I am very happy everytime I linked my web pages to one another. But of course, making blogs is not forgotten. We continue making our blogs. Those lessons helped me a lot in improving myself.

Studying is not all about encountering interesting things. I also encountered a lot of struggles or challenges that made me a stronger one. Too many school work is very stressing.

I address this challenges by the help of my parents, teachers, some classmates, some friends, enemies, and specially by the help of God. Without them, I don't know how weak I am right now. Without them, I don’t know if I were able to passed this challenges.

Moving on, I will do my best in order to overcome those challenges. I will consider those challenges as part of growing and improving myself to be the best and to be lifted up despite the people who's trying to put me down. I consider those people as my inspiration to fight everyday and face the world boldly.

A SAVIOUR WAS BORN

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Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. A time for us to understand the lessons from Jesus & reflect on them. In today’s day and time, it is easy to lose sight of the true meaning of Christmas. Amidst the delicious meals, sweet drinks, lovely songs & dances, beautiful friends & family members we would come across this season, let’s try not to forget about the child, who was born on a night cold winter, whose bed was made only of hay & animal food; our lord Jesus Christ, who taught us all what real, genuine & unconditional love is. As we celebrate the birth of our saviour, let’s be kind enough to remember & show some love to those motherless babies, helpless orphans, hospital patients, prisoners, beggars & all those who are not fortunate enough to be actively involved in the celebration of the birth of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

And if we are to celebrate Christmas, we have to celebrate it with our loving presence instead of feasting. What great joy it would be if we come together as family and share that loving presence with each other even without the partying. What great joy there is if we also celebrate Christmas that same loving presence together with a sick or a hungry neighbor. Or what about spending Christmas with those who are abandoned by their loved ones? In the words of Mother Teresa, “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

God does not expect us to do great things this Christmas. We only need to do things with great love. Finally, this Christmas, may we contemplate God’s humility in Jesus, his divinity hidden beneath the poverty of a the Holy Infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger; the Master and Creator of the universe reduced to the helplessness of a child. Once we accept this paradox, may we discover the truth behind it and that truth is His Love. The First Noel, the Savior becomes one of us, our companion along the trying times. May we all take his hand which he stretches out to us: a hand which seeks to take nothing from us, but only to give.

EQUALITY IS NOT A PRIVILAGE, BUT A HUMAN RIGHT

        

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 Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities. A strictly economic approach to development views a country's development in quantitative terms such as job creation, inflation control, and high employment – all of which aim to improve the ‘economic wellbeing’ of a country and the subsequent quality of life for its people. In terms of economic development, quality of life is defined as access to necessary rights and resources including but not limited to quality education, medical facilities, affordable housing, clean environments, and low crime rate.

 Gender and development considers many of these same factors; however, gender and development emphasizes efforts towards understanding how multifaceted these issues are in the entangled context of culture, government, and globalization. Accounting for this need, gender and development implements ethnographic research, research that studies a specific culture or group of people by physically immersing the researcher into the environment and daily routine of those being studied, in order to comprehensively understand how development policy and practices affect the everyday life of targeted groups or areas.

Women in Development, Gender and Development, Women and Development, The Human Rights and Gender, Environment and Development paradigms have shaped the course of development literature by taking into account both women 's and men’s involvement with and in development. These five central perspectives have attempted to deconstruct gender bias in the economic, the social and the political sphere in order to show how development affects women and men in the global south. In the 1970s, WID came into use after Ester Boserup recognized that women had been excluded from economic development, resulting in them being more disadvantaged than men.

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CHILDREN'S MONTH CELEBRATION 2019

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In the month of October, here in the Philippines, National Children’s Month is celebrated.  Mandated by Presidential Proclamation 267, it is a time to recognize the value of Filipino Children as the most valuable assets in the society.  Observed by Government and Non-Government agencies around the Philippines the month-long celebration is also a campaign to end violence against children and to promote their physical, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual well-being.

Stairway celebrated the month-long event with a series of Children’s Rights and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention workshops for Stairway scholars and their parents.  A team went up to Manila to create Child Friendly Spaces in ten police precincts around Metro Manila.  In Stairway, the children enjoyed many different activites through out the month of October from learning about foreign countries to making clay ovens.

            National Children’s Month with plenty of enjoyable and inspiring activities for the children. The month ended with a wonderful awards ceremony recognizing the talents and personal achievements of the children.

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” -Anonymous

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS CELEBRATION 2019

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     In this month of November, we celebrate Philippine Environment Month Celebration with the theme: Beat Air Pollution. This year's celebration aims to raise awareness on how air pollution is destroying not just the environment but also the health of the public.

     DENR 7 together with partner national government agencies in Central Visayas unite in a foot parade to celebrate Environmental Awareness Month.

     The foot parade was then followed by the hosting of DENR 7 in the unified flag raising attended by NGA partners including PNP-Cebu Provincial Police Office, Civil Service Commission 7, National Economic Development Authority 7, Department of Education 7, Department of Interior and Local Government 7, Commission on Higher Education 7, Department of Science and Technology 7 and Department of Budget and Management 7.

     DENR Undersecretary for Solid Waste Management and LGU Concerns Benny Antiporda together with the newly installed Regional Director of Environmental Management Bureau Region 7 Lormelyn E. Claudio and DENR-7 CENR Officer for Tagbilaran City Ariel N.

VALUES MONTH CELEBRATION 2019

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     In this month of November, we Filipinos usually celebrates Values Month celebration.  This celebration is an effective measure to create moral awakening and national consciousness on unique, positive, and genuine values held important by the Filipino people in their daily lives.

     This celebration was anchored on four pillars – makaDios (pro-God), makatao (pro-people), makabayan (pro-country), and makakalikasan (pro-nature), these values mirror the country’s rich tradition and cultural heritage, Filipino values are instilled early in life. Values formation starts in the family (such as kindness), in spiritual life (piety), relationship with others (generosity), in the workplace (resourcefulness), and in the community (respect for the law).

     The family is at the forefront of instilling values among young Filipinos in the home. Children learn to say “po” and “opo” to older people and to kiss their hands as a sign of respect.