1st cadre training yields 70 outstanding Ilocano youth leaders

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff reporter

Laoag City—Following the successful turnout of the first province wide SIRIB leadership camp earlier, at least 70 outstanding student-leaders from the 21 municipalities and two cities in Ilocos Norte are now ready to lead over 500 Ilocano youth on Saturday, October 25 for another round of leadership training at Brgy. Navotas in this city.

The same promising student-leaders will graduated Oct. 24 at the Navotas camp site as they undergo a two-day cadre training starting Oct. 23.

James Ventura, president of the Sirib Ilokano Kabataan Association (SIKA) said those who successfully graduated to the first cadre training will automatically become training facilitators for the next leadership training to be held at the same camp site on October 25-29.

Hosted by the provincial government of Ilocos Norte, the Ilocano youth are given the opportunity to participate in nation-building through their active involvement in participatory youth leadership and project planning and implementation.

Last April, the same group of student-leaders were the first batch of the five-day intensive leadership training course facilitated by former leaders of the Sangguniang Kabataan Association.

The regular conduct of leadership training in Ilocos Norte aims to empower Ilocano youth leaders to help out the government in its mandate for peace, progress and development.

With a theme, “Sanggir ti Masakbayan (Hope of the Future)”, the provincial government is investing on youth leadership formation to develop their maximum potential and be prepared to become the next leaders of the future.

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