Another ESCR Training held in Davao City

August 29, 2010 - Davao City - More than 30 participants coming from various provinces in Davao region attended the second Economic Socio-Cultural Rights Advocacy Training held at Hope Mountain Transformational Center, Catalunan Pequeno, Davao City last August 25 to 27.

The 3-day workshop training seminar was attended by volunteer documentors team from various sectors including farmers, workers, urban poor, church people, children's rights advocates, students, media and educators. The participants came mostly from Davao City and its neighboring provinces including Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley.

During the workshop, the participants presented their draft campaign plans for sectoral advocacies. The participants were grouped into seven: the farmers and the indigenous people, childrens rights advocates and church people, workers and urban poor, students, educators, media, and the multisectoral alliance.

Members of the farmers and indigenous people group presented their campaign plan for the increase of the buying price of Tundan banana in Davao Oriental while the workers and the urban poor drafted a plan for the campaign in pushing for housing rights. The church people and the children's rights advocates presented the issue on the militarization problem while the students discussed their plan to oppose an anti-student policy in a private university in the city. The multisectoral alliance also drafted a plan to oppose the power rate increase while the educators took on the issue of salary upgrading for public school teachers.