A friend and former colleague, Dr. Elmer Soriano, now in Harvard Kennedy School of Government taking his MPA on
Leadership for a Networked World, contacted me to include our hometown in an initiative that will tackle health in schools. It will utilize a School Health Index (
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/SHI/introduction.htm) which will hopefully inform a development of some guidelines for teachers and referral systems.
He said that the initiative has gotten woven into a broader initiative called
School Health for 1 B Children with partners from other countries and other graduate students at Harvard and MIT. Check out
www.schoolhealthforonebillion.org.
A Philippine team (from US and the Philippines) has shaped up and perhaps the time is ripe to move forward.
The objectives of this team are:
1. to mobilize school and community leaders in the Philippines to push for school health;
2. to improve health and education outcomes through school health;
3. to increase civic engagement and voluntarism among Filipinos and FilAms by developing more venues for purposeful action.
This is exciting and I am sure you Pidjangas are also excited for our Pidjanga youth.
Let me know your thoughts!
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