Intern YMAers on the Move | Young Minds Academy Experience

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."  The Two Messages        One evening when my heart slightly calms down after a downcast conversation, my phone beeps and receive two nice messages, the first one must be kept secret and the second one is the thing I'll be sharing here... The message goes like this: "... will be meeting at Consolacion Agriculture Office tomorrow...". It's been days that I waited to start my intership for I was craving to try new stuff and then Olah!, the day came... The Internship...

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Can You Imagine Life Without Farmers? | Young Minds Academy Experience

Can you imagine life without farmers? A team of scholars from the Young Minds Academy (YMA) Season 5 leadership program can’t. They harnessed the power of marketing strategies mostly through the new media to promote a farmer empowerment project in Consolacion, Cebu. Because of the on-going training that the farmers are undergoing, they will soon yield better and abundant harvests in their respective farms all over Cebu. The online community has been abuzz with the iluvfarmers farmers campaign that champions hero farmers in Cebu. About Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Team CPMPC of the YMA program...

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How to be an S-Leader | Young Minds Academy Experience

"Basic Instruction Before Living Earth" This might be a very late post though I wanted to still share it anyway... ^_^         The S-leadership enlightens me on ways how God works on each of our life. The S-Leadership contrasts the world’s way versus the Potter’s way of leadership. It can also transform person’s character to be near of God. It also encourages me to be more God-centered and live my life near to God. S-Leadership taught me that in every trials and problems was hiding a very blessed tomorrow and a very wonderful learning experience....

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Building Communities to End Poverty | Young Minds Academy Experience

 " We Respect the Dead but we have to give Dignity to the Living. "         We are having our Young Minds Academy Learning Visit of Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. in the former Lorega Public Cemetery that day when I heard those nice lines up there. My heart bleeds passing and looking on those crashed tombs, broken bones of the dead outside its coffin, those houses built on tombs and people are struggling on their living conditions. It gives me HOPE knowing that Gawad Kalinga(GK) was trying to help them. Gawad Kalinga together with its partners was going...

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Rhemon’s Graduation | Congratulation Little Brother

         I haven’t post about my graduation with my elder brother, John Rhel, we’d graduated together. And also about my sister, Rhe John’s graduation, I haven’t gone on her graduation day. But now, I will not allow myself to be absent and not post about one of the most marvelous event ever.                      “High School Graduation, for others is just a piece of cake, a relief and a finished line of all the projects, assignments and other high school...

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Heavy Noshes for your Teeny Twenty

Got a problem with your allowance? Are you left with only twenty pesos in your pocket, like me, for lunch or snacks perhaps? Then here's a solution for you snags. Discover some of these snacks which might help you out with your tight budget. 1. Kwek Kwek        - Do you know that the quail egg inside the coated "kwek kwek" can be a remedy against digestive tract disorders such as gastritis and stomach ulcer? Aside from its affordable price "kwek kwek" is a good source of Vitamin A. See? It's not just a batter-coated ball after all... 2. Caramel Coated Banana Cues and...

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