Creating Streams of Hope, Angat Kabataan, the Save Maningning Project and Harnessing Community Volunteerism by Tobit Cruz

1. Creating Streams of HOPE
Angat Kabataan, the Save Maningning Project and Harnessing Community Volunteerism
October 9, 2015 | Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., Cebu City,
Philippines

2. OUR
LEADERSHIP
STORY

3. Founded Year 2009
Angat Kabataan
Group of 4 (crazy) people who wanted to
change the world in a snap

4. Angat Kabataan
With so much eagerness, we found more
(crazy) people around! 

5. Angat Kabataan
Today, we have:
100+ Active Members
Listed 3,500++ individual volunteers for our Save
Maningning Project

6. Angat Kabataan
One of the Ten Accomplished
Youth Organizations in the
Philippines
And recently, in the ASEAN
Region

7. • Leadership Trainings
• Education Programs
• Health Orientation to Mothers and Children
• Voters Education
• Culture and Values Formation
Angat Kabataan

8. And then this
came…

10. Runs 3km long
It was a
source of
food 30 years
ago.
It was also a
source of
livelihood and
recreation 30
years ago.
The
Maningning*
Creek
*Shining

11. But this is how
our generation
saw it.

12. We can do
it ourselves.
Our
Ambitious
Dream…
can’t

13. So what we
did was…
HELP!

15. PHASES3

16. ASSEMBLING
THE GREEN
1
ARMY

17. GET MORE PEOPLE
TO WORK TOGETHER

18. CONSULTATION AND
COMMUNITY
ORIENTATION

19. TAKING
2

20. REGULAR CLEAN UP DRIVES

21. APPLYING ENGINEERING
SOLUTIONS

22. Bokashi Balls

23. SUSTAINING THE
PROJECT
3

24. INITIATING LIVELIHOOD
PROGRAMS

26. Our
Project
Timeline…

27. WHAT WE’VE
ALREADY
ACCOMPLISHED

30. OURREACH

32. Impact/Outcome on the group
and its members
• Increased awareness on environmental
issues and concerns
•Empowered each members to become
agents of positive change
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Impact/Outcome
on the beneficiaries
• Physical improvement of the creek
• Reduced flooding in nearby areas
• Increased income for 30 families
residing alongside the creek
•Fostered volunteerism in our
community
The Save Maningning Project

33. BE AWARE.GET INVOLVED.LEVEL UP!DREAM BIG. START SMALL. SCALE UP.IMPOSSIBLE IS TEMPORARY.

34. Tobit Cruz
President and Co-Founder, Angat Kabataan
KabataangAngat@gmail.com
+63 917 5076850
@tobitcruz
“Never believe that a few caring
people can’t change the world. For
indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
-Margaret Mead