Tinig Kabataan believes that Filipino Youth must:
Act as role models of other Youth in our communities
Act as catalysts for change
Advocate and practice responsible and honest leadership
Actively participate in programs and projects
Promote the spirit of...
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Tinig Kabataan believes that Filipino Youth must:
Act as role models of other Youth in our communities
Act as catalysts for change
Advocate and practice responsible and honest leadership
Actively participate in programs and projects
Promote the spirit of volunteerism
Provide recruits and trainees for youth development
Commit our dedication, time, initiative, resources, skills, talents, and knowledge
Promote our cultural heritage
Assist in the formation of youth organizations
Be the fiscalizers of the youth
Vigilantly monitor the various programs & projects
Set standards and evaluate performance
Conduct research and feasibility studies
Formulate policies and concept papers
Expand awareness on the various youth issues
Actively campaign, lobby and advocate for youth issues
Be conscious of issues that affect the youth
Assist in database development and information gathering
Build networks and linkages with other stakeholders
Foster and nurture unity and cooperation among the youth.
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Tinig Kabataan or the Voice of the Youth was founded by Pocholo D. Gonzales last December 2001. He believes than youth must Take stock of their time, talent and youthfulness. By involving the youth with different youth programs and affairs, they will develop the sense of youth participation....
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Tinig Kabataan or the Voice of the Youth was founded by Pocholo D. Gonzales last December 2001. He believes than youth must Take stock of their time, talent and youthfulness. By involving the youth with different youth programs and affairs, they will develop the sense of youth participation.
Choy," is a broadcast communications graduate student at the University of the Philippines (U.P.), Diliman.
He is a dedicated and multi-talented young leader who has been a freelance writer, reporter, voice-over talent, and radio talent for various companies such as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, Manila Broadcasting Company DZRH, Philippine Children's Television Foundation Inc. and National Office of Mass Media where he writes and works on productions that focus on children and youth affairs and volunteerism.

He is also the main storyteller of Adarna Books Inc. where he has been to all the elementary schools in Metro Manila telling stories to elementary students.

YOUTH PARTICIPATION
A working student, he was also an active youth coordinator and the youngest participant of the 2nd National Youth Parliament and 1st National Youth Summit of the National Youth Commission and DSWD. He has been Deputy Volunteer of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), in-school volunteer of U.P. Ugnayan ng Pahinungod and National Historical Institute.

He has also contributed as a member and officer of PI SIGMA Fraternity, U.P. Red Cross and U.P. Tangway - an organization of U.P. students from Bataan and an active United Nations Volunteer. He founded the U.P. Speech Communication Society and KaBATAAN (Katipunan ng Kabataan ng Bataan) or Bataan Youth Society, for which the main goal was to promote Bataan as a tourist destination, environmental awareness and youth empowerment.

He participated in the 27th Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program last year 2000, 3rd APEC Future Leaders Forum, attended the 37th International Youth Camp and 6th Arirang Youth Camp of Korean National Commission for UNESCO and accepted as a delegate of the Philippines to the Melaka Intenational Youth Dialogue by World Assembly of Youth.

He was one of the co-convenor to the 3rd International Youth Conference held at the Philippine Normal University and Malacanang Palace last August 12 to 14 led by the United Nations Association of the Philippines (UNAP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization-Associated Schools Project (UNESCO-ASP), and Philippine Normal University (PNU).

"Youth Leadership for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development" is the theme of this year's celebration. The activities lined up include a conference to be held at PNU highlighting the programs and policies of non-government and government agencies dealing with youth development.

Lately, He was the youngest speaker to the ASEAN Student Leaders' Summit held in Angeles University in Angeles City Pampanga.

Success in implementing programs for the youth hinges on our religious and civil leaders. They play a crucial part in realizing these programs and policies, with them serving as the living examples of the virtues and ideals they expect the youth of the land to have.
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