Memorandum
Signing Ceremony for the Future Leaders of Toledo Project with
signatories (left to right) Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. Kool
Adventure Camp (RAFI-KAC) Director Edvan Loh, RAFI President
Roberto Aboitiz, Carmon Copper Corporation (CCC) Vice President
and Resident Manager Rodrigo Cal and CCC Vice President on Human
Resource and Administration Rene de Ocampo. |
Future leaders of
Toledo City to start training at RAFI-KAC
By Ramon Aboitiz Foundation
Inc.
April 18, 2015
CEBU CITY – To better
equip themselves in implementing community projects at the barangay
level, 70 student leaders from Toledo City, Cebu will start undergoing
this month a Three-Phase Youth Leadership Development Program
organized by the Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC) in partnership with
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc - Kool Adventure Camp (RAFI-KAC).
The program is a long-term
investment that starts with an initial three-day training to
strengthen fundamental personal skills for effective personal
leadership and self-confidence; to conquer personal fears; and for
them to gain deeper understanding of their selves to become active and
effective members of a team.
“This partnership is one
more step in injecting into the community a program that produces
significant transformation. I can guarantee that participants of this
program will never be the same when they complete the training. This
program creates people free from the normal human constraints which
hold them back from becoming what they can be. We are very excited to
be part of this program and thankful to Carmen Copper Corporation for
engaging us,” said RAFI President Roberto Aboitiz.
The second phase of the
training is designed for participants to learn the basic principles of
project management for to create initial assessment of their local
communities and to craft project proposals for implementation.
Outstanding project proposals will be given counterpart seed funding
by CCC.
The third and final phase of
the training will gather project team leaders for them to share their
best practices on project implementation and provide them
opportunities for network building. Outstanding projects will be
recognized during the awarding ceremony by end of the year.
“These projects are really
for the benefit of the community. In terms of training activities,
this will have a mix of indoor activities, knowledge building, while a
large part of it is sending the participants to the community to
practice the skills they learn,” said RAFI-KAC Director Edvan Loh.
The participating national
high schools are from the barangays of Don Andres Soriano, Cantabaco,
Bunga, Media Once, Magdugo, and General Climaco and private school De
La Salle Andres Soriano Memorial College.
“We are very impressed with
the program of RAFI-KAC. We in CCC want to develop the youth to become
the future leaders, and we want to do this in collaboration with RAFI,”
expressed CCC Vice President and Resident Manager Rodrigo Cal.
“This is a
highly-sophisticated and productive kind of training that will help
supplement and complement our already established school curriculum
for our high school students,” also said Department of Education-7
Education Program Supervisor Victor Intig.
The partnership was sealed
through the signing of a memorandum of agreement between CCC and RAFI
last February 11 at the Cebu Grand Hotel.