Region 8 launches Yes
for Peace campaign
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PIA
8 regional director Olive Tiu (w/ microphone) introduces the
organizers of the “Yes for Peace - Bayanihan Para Sa Kapayapaan”
led by DepEd education program supervisor Rosemarie Guino (4th
from left), PHILPOST operations chief Cirio Oscar Espos (right)
and Alpha Phi Omega fraternity members from the different
chapters in Tacloban to the media during the Harampang ha PIA in
Tacloban City, February 16. (Vino R. Cuayzon) |
By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
February
17, 2012
TACLOBAN CITY – Ten
million votes for peace is the aim of the ‘Yes for Peace” campaign
which was launched in Eastern Visayas on February 16 at the Harampang
Ha PIA media interaction.
Yes for Peace campaign
hopes to solicit the positive responses from the public particularly
the students Grade four and up to fourth
year
High School
nationwide.
Ms. Rosemarie M. Guino,
DepEd 8 Education Program Supervisor, said peace is very important in
the promotion of education in the country and that the 10M votes is a
significant voice from the people who wants peace to prevail for
development to prosper.
Although three young
college students Ace Norman Alvero, Daryl Cawad and Gibson Goles were
the ones who requested PIA’s help for the launching, the project is
actually a project of the Department of Education which hopes to
gather all the survey forms before the third week of February because
on February 22, a simultaneous nationwide pledge for peace will be
held in an event dubbed ‘Panunumpa ng mga Kabayani para sa Kapayapaan.’
The DepEd memorandum
that committed to take action on the campaign through a nationwide
survey among public students 10 years old and above was downloaded to
the regional offices last December 15.
Ms. Guino expressed
optimism that DepEd can deliver the needed number of responses as the
call for peace has always been part of the education agenda.
Also present during
the launching were Mr. Cirio Oscar Espos of Philippine Postal
Corporation and members of the APO Fraternity which is a private
partner of DepEd in the endeavor.
It is always the
children and the teachers that ultimately suffer whenever peace and
order in an area is not stable. How can the human resources be
developed if education is disrupted due to a conflicting environment
without peace.
The survey result will
be presented in a report that will be submitted on February 25 to the
peace panel, to the government, the National Democratic Front (NDF)
and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) amid the ongoing peace
negotiations.
Mr. Espos said that
the role of Philpost is to facilitate the delivery of the filled up
survey forms from the municipalities to the Central Office where the
survey forms will be opened and counted.
He added that anybody
can fill up the survey form because the essence is that each voice of
every Filipino who is for peace should be heard.
The form can be
downloaded through the internet via www.yesforpeace.info, Mr. Espos
said, or one can also vote online, he added.
Meanwhile, the local
media was requested to help in promoting the activity and also enjoin
everybody to fill up the forms expressing support.
