Mga Kasama sa Kabalai,

This is the minutes of this meeting last night. Ellen, myself and an applicant member, Jill Roque participated in the meeting.

HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY DECISIONS
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1) ANGELICUM ECOWASTE PROJECT. We are waiting for project proposal from Cel on the ecowaste project in angelicum which is also her masteral thesis. Ellen and i are exploring an ADB possible funding. trainors training on ecowaste for us set on march 25 sat whole day sa national ecology center (NEC) sa timog

2) KABALAI LEGAL REGISTRATION. On the legal registration, we have two options. one, i have prepared for siginig by those who want to be legal incorporators and board our SEC papers. Riza has committed to get someone to work on the submission and follow to SEC. The 2nd option is to wait for the negotiations with CFTF. We have a meeting with the Petines brothers tom (time to be confirmed) to discuss possibility of CFTF-Kabalai merger. In any case... we need to decide on which option by end of march

3) KABALAI TO SUPPORT GREEN BRIGADE OF SAN LORENZO VILL SK. On the possible Kabalai consultancy to help the SK in San Lorenzo Village Makati on developing a program for their Green Brigade, Bea and I will have explo meeting with them on march 20. the SK have funding for thier program.

4) KABALAI KAMP KALIKASAN THIS APRIL ON CLEAN AIR. YSDA national Kamp K was decided by the YSDA board to be moved from April to October. Therefore, this gives space for kabalai to push through with its own NCR Kamp K on April focus on clean air; possibley with biking, mountaineering component somehwere possibly in Antipolo where the air pollution in manila is very visible. Bea is now exploring possible tie up with a group imkplementing a USAID project to fund this. Bbut we are organizing this as a self-liquidating project. Ellen with support from YSDA secreatriat (Lids) will market this camp to paying clients targeting HS teachers and their students from NCR.

5) KAMP K LINK WITH KABALAI REPRSENTATION IN THE NCR AIRSHED MANAGEMENT BOARD. Jill and I will work on a program and a post kamp progrm scenario that will allow us to build on this Kamp to set-up a regular youth constitutency on clean air issues in NCR to ssubstantiate my representation in the NCR airshed management board. we are creating an online forum in the YSDA website on this so that we can all discuss this

6) KABALAI E.D. SESSION ON RE-STRUCTURING GOVERNMENT TOWARDS A GREEN PHILIPPINES. our ED (education discussion) session on Green Government that was postpone from Feb 18 will now be organize in Ateneo on March 18. Im meeting our local student group partner tom in ateneo to finalize this. All kabalai members are required to attend this 2-6pm on March 18. Aproposal for funding has been submitted for this to the CODE NGO democracy fund

7) SITE VISIT ON THE NEW MIRIAM ESI SITE ON COMMUNITY BASED ECOTOURISM IN SOUTHERN SIERRA MADRE. Confirm yng march 11 na site visit sa southern sierra madre ecotour. : thats a new ecotour site ng Miriam ESI that they have asked Kabalai to market. Ive ask Ickx and Riza to go.

8) KABALAI WEBSITE AT WWW. KABALAI.ORG SOON! speaking of marketing... we recommend we get the services of Dave (the YSDA webmaster) to develop our own website using the same program as that of YSDA website (JOOMLA) so that professional yng site natin. ill explore this now kahit lapa tayo funds. we need 2600/yr to have this website at www.kabalai.org

Thanks!

Roy