In the past few weeks, Aksyon Kalikasan activities dwindled. We are very sorry about this. There is no single reason. All of us in the Board are volunteers working on our individual full time jobs. I suppose many of us got busy with some transitions in our work and because many equally important things needed our attention. The elections and the summer vacation for schools also affected us because most of our activities are in partnerships with government and schools. The good news is that we are back and we are struggling to get back to the momentum we need to push further our targets this year.
Situation:
In anticipation for entering into a partnership with IIRR-Yen Center, our Treasurer, Noreen Vergara (aka Mango Mandarin) resigned from the Board. The Board in a meeting earlier this year elected as a member and new Treasurer, Thunder Job Paul Mendoza. However, Thunder has decided not to continue and has resigned from the Board. Tchr Lorna is now based in the US and only sits as a member of the Board until she is succeeded by a new member of the Board. Jocelyn M. Manzo on the other hand is lying low since her son went into surgery recently. This leaves me and Michael Templonuevo as active members of the board. We cannot function effectively with this. After electing new leaders, the switching of sides to protect their own interests will follow the change of colors, titles and slogans of the same economic ideology fueled by the same greed and elitism. Then comes the rain, the storm, the floods, the erosion of land and soil and the continued massacre of biodiversity and ecosystem at whose foundations lie the basis of our development and yes, survival. |
Roy Cabonegro
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March 2020
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