Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

1) Kabalai Egroup. We would like to request everyone to subscribe to our egroup. You can do that now by sending a blank email to kabalai-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

2) Kabalai Blog for Updates. While we are still updating our website at www.kabalai.ysda.org , may i invite all to regularly visit our TIG Blog at http://kabalai.tigblog.org/

3) Kabalai Membership Documents. Im resending herewith a copy of the Kabalai membership form, manifesto of unity, constitution and our organizational policy. All members are required to fill up and send to us a copy of your membership form with your scanned picture. We are still refining our services to members so please hold your inquiries on that. If you have some ideas, please email us.

4) Kabalai Angelicum Ecowaste Project Featured in YSDA website. Please visit www.ysda.org and look for the feature project section. Maricel is currently negotiating the implementation of this project in Angelicum College. May we invite Ellen in Adamson to consider this in their campus as well. Andrew and Cornel, is something like this still needed in Christian Value School? Maricel is also developing this into a full proposal for submission to possible donor. We are starting with an ADB-Philippine office fund for this. Bel was tasked to organized internal trainings on ecowaste for our members in the NCR. More details on this soon.

5) Possible Partnership with an SK-Green Brigade Program in Makati. Bea is working on a possible partnership between Kabalai-SK of San Lorenzo and the Y-Earth (an informal network of student environmental advocates) for us to help them develop a demonstration project on involving youth in community-level sustainable development. Details of this soon.

6) Possible Beneficiary of a New Call Center Company. Ellen is confirming a possible partnership with a new call center company who is looking for an NGO beneficiary for their Corporate Social Responsibility polic. Details soon.

7) Possible Partership with an Outdoor Ads Company for Proper Re-Use of their Tarpauline. Cornel is exploring the possibility of Kabalai being a partner of an Oudoor Ad company to find alternative usese (re-use) of their exess tarpauline. May be some of you have ideas? Can this not be used for example in putting up large tents in our ecotour campigns sites? Ideas please?

8) Kabalai ONLINE meeting. We missed our General Membership (all members, all chapters) ONLINE meeting last 30 January. May I recommend we try to do this on the 11th (Saturday) from 4pm up using the chat room in the www.ysda.org To use this, all of you must first register in the YSDA website which you should do now. The focus of the online meeting is to discuss: a) the setting up of the Ecotour marketing program of Kabalai, b) the Kabalai Physical General Assembly (July 7). In this online meeting of everyone, Allan will discuss his paper reviewing the ecotour policies, structures and institutions that will affect our work. Jani will discuss his paper on the market and competition of a Kabalai ecotour marketing enterpruse. I will discuss my paper on registering the Kabalai into a coop and its requirements and implications. Can i ask if Bea would be interested to present her ideas on a possible training program for kabalai related to ecotour marketing? Of course, its ideal that all these document are emailed to all prior to the online meeting so that we can all read prior to the meeitng.

9) Your Homepage at the YSDA Website. Since Kabalai is a member of YSDA and you are all members of Kabalai, you are entitled to a homepage and ur own sub-domain name in the YSDA website. The sub-domain name can take this form (www.rcabonegro.ysda.org) Once your registered with the YSDA website, please go to Members Corner and go to Manage my homepage, There you will find a web development tool where you can develop your homepage. After that, we will assign you your subdomain name. This homepage will later be deelop into a personal blog. Also pag naupgrade na ang YSA web account, we will be providing free kabalai.ysda.org email accounts (e.g roy@kabalai.ysda.org)

10) Possible new members. We are trying our best to reach out again to those who express interest before to joinj Kabalai pero di natin na follow up. Im happy to announced that to date, Ethel and Estrela of NCR, Cesmil of Bulacan and Russel of Bacolod have expressed interest. Ive included them in this email.Lets all welcome the,. Is there any potential Cesmil and Russel that you can form a Kabalai chapter in your own areas; building on your exisitng groups or involvements?

11) Organizing the Cavite Chapter. SInce Cornel is no longer working for Christian Values School, he acan no longer supervise the cell building in that school. While COrnel remains the chapter coordinator in Cavite, we have started to link up with some key student sin CVS to follou up the Kabalai Cell formation their. More in this soon.

12) Kabalai NCR Chapter ED Session. This months Education Discussion (ED) session of the Kabalai NCR chapter will be held tentatively in Adamson University on 18th February Saturday. The topic is on understanding the Charter Change, Federalism and the Transitory Revolutionary government proposals from the point of view of sustianable development, environment and greens perspective. This is part of 5-simultaneous local youth dialogue on the issue together with 4 other YSDA memebr organizations. Together with us, a similar dialogue/ED session will be held in Tacurong, Maguindanao, Cagayan de Oro City, Baliuag Bulacan and Lamitan Basilan. Details of this are in the project page located at http://projects.takingitglobal.org/green_government. For your information, attached is the concept paper of this dialogue/ED session.

12) Registering Kabalai in SEC. As per recommendation of the Kabalai Angelicum cell and considerign that if we are to access funds for the Campus Ecowaste project in angelicum, we must have some legal entity; we will register the Kabalai NCR chapter in the SEC as an NGO. Of course, this is not with prejudice to the agreement earlier that as a whole, kabalai will be registered this year as a coop.

13) Miriam ESI Southern Sierra Madre Ecotour Partnership. The Miriam College Environmental Studies Institute (ESI) has recently opened a new ecotour site in Southern Sierra Madre,. We are now awaiting details from them because they have expressed their interest to get us as a partner in running and ,marketing this ecotour. The first task would be a site visit, So, people get ready to climb.

14) Kabalai NCR Chapter meetng. The chapter wil meet on thursday, Feb 9 6pm at Angelicum college. May i know kung kailan ang meeting ng Davao at Cavite chapters?

Thanks for the patient in reading all these updates,. If you have any quesions, email me or text me 0919 4619322

Salamat!

Roy



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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