WHEN President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo comes to Bohol, April 1, it would probably be her briefest official visit here.
The president is expected to breeze through Bohol late Wednesday morning and be off for another official engagement at 1:30.
But the youth sector awaiting here are making sure it would be one that leaves the longest imprint in environmental protection as they hope it would re-vitalize her dream Green Philippines.
Green Philippines Project is an environmental campaign that President Arroyo has been spearheading since she assumed office and immediately uncovered details of making the country clean and green.
It may be recalled that it was also in Bohol when PGMA also launched Green Philippines during the first Bohol Youth Day, in March of 2007.
In her address to the youth then, she said “We still have time to shape up our nation in the right direction: clean, healthy, productive and beautiful.”
While asking the youth to rally with her, she wanted to realize the dream in next five years.
On her re-visit two years after the 2007 launch, Sangguniang Kabataan President Jane Censoria Cajes, said she expects the youth to get a recharge on the president’s Green Philippines call for adopting a clean, socially responsible environment policy.
The president then shared her seven-year vision of making the country a model of environmental stewardship while engaging the youth to do the legwork.
For the project, President Arroyo wants to use the youth to bring out innovative land management strategies and care of the environment.
“I fully believe that within the seven years, the Philippines can be a model of environmental stewardship, she bared then,
The move, then spearheaded by the National Youth Commission and the Tagbilaran Diocesan Youth Commission, aimed to make a strong Boholano pro-environmental statement.
In 2009, PGMA would engage the youth anew in her reinvigorated national environment campaign. (rachiu/PIA)
