Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,
I met with our 3 members who are in Angelicum college (Riza, Maricel and Bel) and id like to share with you the highlights of that meeting:
1) On Overall Kabalai Immediate Focus and Independence of Chapter Focus. I explained to them about the Jan 23 online mtg between Jani, Allan and myself and they are in agreement to the strategy for the Kabalai as a whole to concentrate on the enterprise/fund raising component (coop for ecotour services). But they asssert that indeed the local chapters and cells must be allowed to continue wih their own plans and activities while contributing to that overall strategy and focus of kabalai.
2) On Branding Asseignment. On the propose assignment for them to work on the branding for kabalai (common logo, symbol, emblem and other corporate designs and visual signatures), they think its better to get all chapters (NCR, Cavite and Davao) to do their respective branstorming on branding and prepare designs which we can then openly share among each other and from their pick the best design rathern than just assigned it to the NCR chapter to do. Our General Assembly (July 7) would be an excellent time to have these various options for branding designs to be presented and for the best to be adopted by the kabalai general membership. Also, we also noted Cornel's comments that the draft revised profile document of Kabalai while focus on the ecotour enterprise work mus be seen as just one of the nature of kabalai. We reiterate that while we agree ont he strategy that we should focus on the enterprise, this does not change the fact that Kabali has 2 focus - outdoor education on sustainability and green lifestyle promotions. We are both eco-preneurial and at the same time a youth training and advocacy group. These dual nature of Kabalai and the documents that articulates this should be the basis of any branding brainstorming session and not just the document on the ecotour enterprise work.
3) On the July 7 2006 Kabalai General Assembly. They think its too short to prepare logistically; if the vision is a grand gathering of ALL members of Kabalai in all chapters. They recommend we do that one year after pa. July 7 2007. Bale 7-7-7 yun... Suwerte daw yun. However, we should do what we need to do in consulting each other for the Coop registration through email and mail and not wait for a July 7 2007 gathering.
4) On request to comment on key documents (YSDA ecotour marketing proposal, revised kabalai profile, website design). They committed to try to contribute to this and send me some comments soon.
5) On optimizing the YSDA website. They agreed to optimize on the personal homepage and the online forum for kabalai members in the YSDA website
5) Key Focus of the Angelicum Kabalai Cell. We then discuss beyond the overall focus of Kabalai and look at the spcific activities and targets that the Angelicum cell would like to do this year. We agree on the ff:
5.1. Campus Ecowaste Project for Angelicum College which will now start July 2006
To do this project, the following are pre-requisites and support activities:
5.1.1. Register the Kabalai NCR chapter in teh SEC to have legal identity (Riza)
5.1.2. Establish parterships wih ecowaste groups (Roy)
5.1.3. Dialogue with Angelicum College for the project (Maricel)
5.1.4. Write project proposal for submission to donors (MAricel)
5.1.5. Internal training session on ecowaste management (Bel)
5.1.6. Internal planning session for kabalai on the project (Maricel)
5.2. A Cell Planning Session on 3rd or 4th week of April 2006 (out of town)
5.3. Monthly ED sessions (tentatively last saturdays of every month)- for Feb, they will host an ED session on Greening Federalis, Cha cha and the ConAss-Concon issue
5.4. Weekend Thematic Green Lifestyle Camps/Ecotours (to be marketed with a fee)
5.4.1. July 2006 - focus on Ecowaste
5.4.2. October 2006 - focus on Organic food and sustainable agriculture
5.4.3. December 2006 - focus on Biking and green transport
5.4.4. February 2007 - to be defined
5.5. A consolidated weeklong green lifesyle camp (to be marketed witth a fee) on April 22-26 2007 as the group's Earth Day 2007 project
6) On Kabalai NCR Chapter Jacket. We agreed to have a common Kabalai signature windbreaker (jacket) to be produce with the Kabalai logo in navy blue color to be produce for everyone. KKB for now because kabalai doesnt have any common fund at the moment.
Thanks!
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Roy Jerusalem Cabonegro
Chairperson, Kabalai
Website:
www.kabalai.ysda.org
Mailing Address: 210-D Kanlaon Street, Brgy Maharlika, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Mobile Phone +63 (919) 4619322
Fax +63 (2) 4266740 (c/o YSDA-Pilipinas)
Email: kabalai_chair@yahoo.com
