Partners for protecting people and planet

With different partners, RCE-Cebu (Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development) has been conducting free training (face-to-face and/or online) on Kitchen Waste Composting and Options for Other Waste Types.

We are grateful to DENR-7, especially to Regional Director Paquito Melicor and Assistant Regional Director Eddie Llamado for their wonderful assistance and support for this training.

Also to Ms. Emma Ramas, head of Waste Management, Office of Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama, and to Mr. Joey Baclayon, head of the Cebu City Agriculture Department for supporting our joint free training for thousands of Cebu City employees.

For the next five months, from November 2023 to March, 2024, with Vriendschapsband Haarlemmermeer Cebu of the Netherlands, we are reaching out to more partners to join us for our advocacy campaign against global warming through this free training to reduce/manage kitchen wastes/paper and especially single use-plastics so these do not end up in dumpsites/ landfills/rivers/water bodies.

The free training also aims to empower the participants, among other goals, 1.) To raise their own healthy, organic food from rich composted soil from every household’s kitchen/food wastes and 2.) To manage paper/plastic wastes.

This free, voluntary hybrid training on Kitchen Waste Composting and Options for Other Waste Types will discuss about global warming/climate change, Laudato Si, and also discuss our two campaigns, AGAPE and DEO (with demonstration/hands-on activity) and the benefits of composting, waste segregation and management of other waste types especially as anti-poverty, anti-hunger and livelihood initiatives, among other SDGs.

AGAPE refers to A Garden Per Ecosystem (through kitchen waste composting) and DEO (Daily Eco-Offering or Waste Segregation and Options for Paper and Plastic Wastes).

Our free 90- to 120-minute training is intended to reach out to students, teachers and staff of school/colleges/universities, employees, staff, executives of private/government offices/ companies/agencies, barangays, parishes/ religious organizations, and other sectors.

If your organization or sector is interested to partner with us for this campaign to protect people and our planet, please contact us at Globe number - 0927 733 4940- or at these links: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VPek4wuZhixtoIULR6Twk0vSJCkb46_QsFEkvjCpk0o/edit?usp=sharing, or ceburce@gmail.com or rce.techteam@gmail.com.

Please fill up and send the following information to the above contact details:

1.) Training date, 2.) Training time, 3.) Training venue (barangay, city, province), 4.) Number of participants, 5.) Name of group/organization/barangay/office/school requesting training, 6.) Contact person, 7.) Contact details - cellphone number, email/FB address.

We would also like to sincerely thank DepEd-7 Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez Jr., Chief Education Supervisor Tomas Pastor, Mr. Ranilo Edar and their technical staff for facilitating and supporting our online training since October to November for more than a thousand of their employees!

We hope they can continue the training and expand the network of DepEd-7 participants to include their students, teachers, and staff!

Calling all other government and private offices/agencies and businesses, we will be happy to arrange this free training upon your request!

Thank you also to Ms. Marilou Cañizares of Zonta Club of Cebu II for arranging this training for their community women at Dolce Café. She also facilitated another training for us with the Rivergate Tenants, thanks to Atty. Beth Reyes/her staff for their support!

Atty. Hector Soliman, a dear friend since UP Diliman days, linked us with Roy of ANSA-SNPP (Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilya ng Pantawid), who in turn, connected us to Novie Diacamos of SNPP.

Through their kind assistance, SNPP-training schedules for certain dates of November and December have been set for Duljo-Fatima, Argao, barangays Sta. Rosa/San Vicente in Olango, Sudlon 2, Canjulao, Lapu-Lapu, Pitogo, Consolacion, and soon, other areas.

Fr. Michael Murphy of CACEC invited us to his Liloan parish and newly elected Councilor Nida Cabrera to Barangay Luz!

Thanking the Lord for this growing network of partners for protecting our people/our planet!

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