Tacloban City—Junior Jaycees-Tacloban Sinirangan is TAYO People’s Choice Awardee and national finalist in the 2015 Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations awards. The National Finals Awarding was held last Jan. 21, 2016 at the Malacaňang Palace.
The Search for the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations of the Philippines is organized annually by the TAYO Awards Foundation Inc., in partnership with the National Youth Commission and the Office of Senator Bam Aquino. TAYO Awards recognizes youth organizations all over the country with programs and projects that help their communities.
Junior Jaycees-Tacloban Sinirangan’s entry was the RISK Project under the Livelihood/Entrepreneurship category. RISK stands for Recreate, Invest, Save and Know, according to the TAYO website.
“Their [Junior Jaycees-Tacloban Sinirangan] achievement is a success story. Two years after Typhoon Yolanda, seeing young people do something to help its own community makes us proud. We are ready for change and young people are making this change possible,” praised Daciano David Palami, second nominee of Tingog-Sinirangan Party-list.
The livelihood project is composed of a livelihood seminar and distribution of farming resources.
In the seminar, residents were taught how to use materials easily accessible to the community and useful for the production of organic fertilizers. They were given vegetable seedlings and farm tools so they can create vegetable gardens. Surplus funds were also generated and set aside as a contingency fund for future needs of the beneficiaries.
The project helped more than 200 residents of Barangay San Agustin, Palo, Leyte.
According to the youth group, the idea for the project came in the aftermath of Typhoon “Yolanda.” Junior Jaycees wanted to help the people cope with the devastating socioeconomic and environmental problems of the people.
Junior Jaycees-Tacloban Sinirangan received a specially commissioned trophy sculpted by Mr. Toym De Leon Imao as a National finalist and a separate trophy for the People’s Choice Award.
Youth organizations from Eastern Visayas have been recognized by TAYO Awards in the past years. In 2011, RTRMF Akma-Resbak was one of the top 10 TAYO awardee for Back to Greens for Health Initiative. In 2007, UP An Balangaw Performing Arts Group and Silak sa Kauswagan Youth Organization were national finalists.
