HAPI-C at the 1st Cebu NGO Summit

At the Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center on December 06, 2011, HAPI-C attended the 1st ever general assembly of all the NGO (non-government organizations) from the Cebu province. With Kaabag Sa Subgu as event organizer/coordinator, over 150 representatives from their various foundations, associations, centers, and movements attended.

The first part of the summit was a speech by Sec. Jesse Robredo from the Dept. of Interior and Local Government. As the former mayor of Naga city, he gave a speech about the growth and development a province by urbanization. He also cited the importance of the NGOs' voices in these changes.

Later, Prof. Felisa Etimadi of UP Cebu also gave a speech about her many experiences in working with various NGO's in Cebu. Part of the speech was a lecture on how to work more efficiency as NGOs.

 

 

After the lunch break the NGO's were divided into 3 conference rooms according to each organization's main concerns and interests; Urban and Rural Livability, Sustainable Development, and Human Development.
For the Human Development Interests groups, Edwardson Co from HAPI-C was a speaker for the program and presented about hemophilia in the Philippines and also about HAPI-C.

 

 

An open forum followed.

 

 

HAPI-C was able to establish connections with DYSS A.M. Radio and had offered for guesting in their program on December 11, 2011. An affiliate program also offered local TV broadcasting for hemophilia awareness, scheduled in January 2012.

All the NGOs later returned to the main discussion hall to culminate the entire day's activity.