CAPTURE!: A Volunteer's Reflection

A Volunteer's Reflection
on Child-Friendly Activities

by: Jenalyn V. Cagas
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Have you tried to render your services without expecting any in return? Have you tried to offer yourself making disturbed people smile, going to conflicted areas reaching out evacuees though you knew it might risk your life? Have you tried setting your time packing and carrying relief goods, school supplies, candies or food? Have you tried to patiently and dedicatedly spend time facing the computer developing modules and planning activities for Child Friendly Activities (CFA)? Have you tried to ride in a dump truck wet by the rain, cooled by the air and dried by the sun? Have you found true friends while doing those things? If you answer "YES" to all these questions with so much fun and enjoyment, then you feel the true essence and true meaning of volunteerism.

What is volunteerism?

Volunteerism may not be found in any dictionary but can be readily found in the heart of every youth or person who undertakes tasks and services of his own free will and offers himself willingly without asking any in return. This spirit of volunteerism is evidently manifested in Kapayapaan Kapatid Council (KKC) Tri-Youth Volunteers, presently known as SPN - Volunteers.
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Why volunteerism?

This Kapayapaan Kapatid Council Tri-Youth Volunteers is a movement composed of Muslim, Lumad and Christian youth coming from different schools and organizations aimed to attain a common goal - to stress free the minds of traumatic, disturbed and hopeless victims particularly children through Child Friendly Activities.

KKC Tri-Youth Volunteers have reached out SOCSARGEN specifically in the conflict mountainous risky areas. They are readily present in making difference, meaningful contributions in the community and doing actions in the culture of peace. rendering free medical missions and action for peace program services, giving fun games, hand paintings, blowing bubbles, relating lively songs and inspiring stories are some of the best practices of the volunteers offer to the least fortunate children, who have been the victims of societal and natural catastrophes.

Becoming a volunteer.....

Making every child smile, guiding and assisting them towards knowing who and how worthy they are as persons in the family and community, joyfully doing hand paintings and blowing bubbles to the sky which give HOPE, COURAGE and PERSISTENCE for their dreams are unforgettable experiences carved in the hearts and minds of the volunteers.

Joining in the Kapayapaan Kapatid Council Tri-Youth Volunteers doesn't only mean becoming a volunteer. The criteria of becoming a volunteer are inherent. Making people smile by doing simple things makes one the best volunteer. Doing right things daily that make God smile makes someone the greatest volunteer ever!

As a Filipino youth, why don't we join in volunteering and bringing back the peace in Mindanao and peace for the entire country? Let's prove that we're still the hope of our fatherland. Let's stand now! Let's volunteer! Let's ACT FOR PEACE!

Peace Journalism 2009 for the youth held at NFA, General Santos City

Bonding moments of the volunteers at DXCP, General Santos City - Ibrahim Nilong, Nova Masoco, Thed Quartz, Joemar Gandao, yours truly (Jenalyn Cagas) and Edward Ocular