The Alternative Youth Summer School or AYOSS is a special youth program of TCP together with a progressive youth organization, the Youth for Nationalism and Democracy or YND.
AYOSS offers activities and programs to students and out-of-school youth. The activities are intended to provide venues that would enhance the skills and potentials of the youth for leadership, special skills like theater and arts, writing and the like. The School would also provide inputs that would equip the youth with knowledge of the current social context, basic concepts on economics, and other relevant inputs.
Courses and Activities
This summer we hope to conduct AYOSS courses and activities to the community youth and students of Baguio City and Benguet. The following are the scheduled topics and activities.
1. INPUTS
A. State Repression: Extra-judicial Killings, Anti-Terrorism Bill and Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
B. US War of Aggression / War on Terror and the Global Capitalist Crisis
C. The Women Movement and Globalization
D. Cultural Aggression and the Filipino Youth
2. FILM SHOWINGS
A. Monalisa Smile
B. Inherit the Wind
C. In the Times of the Butterflies
D. Beyond Borders
3. EXPOSURE/INTEGRATION
- La Union Fisher Folk Communities
Mechanics
The inputs would be provided by TCP in coordination with the YND.
The program will be held every Wednesdays and Saturdays starting on April 18 at the TCP office located at #100 Parisas Street, Camp 7 Baguio City.
AYOSS will give certificate of participation at the end of this summer program for those who joined all of the activities. AYOSS graduates are maintained by TCP as TCP Student Fellows and could participate in other TCP Youth Programs.
There will be no registration fee for the said activity, but we encourage all participants to contribute anything they wish to give for the outreach programs such as used clothes, pencils and pen or anything that they can for the poor children of the said target community.
Formation of advocacy groups/support groups for the small fisher folks is the concrete output of the exposure-outreach program.
Other than the courses and activities listed, community and school youth organizations could also request other inputs and skills training they need as long as it still falls within the orientation of TCP and YND. Consultations would be done in preparation for the modules for such.
