This summer we are encouraging you to think of your own project.

It need not be grand, it just needs to be original.  Completely yours.  In exchange, nine (9) original ideas will be funded by Rock Ed through a grant given to us by Havaianas. 

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A majority of our projects came to be because of the volunteer roster. We understand that this is an unusual route for a volunteer group. Instead of the project preceding the people, Rock Ed’s trend has been people come in first before projects. So, the idea of “Project: FRESH TAKE” is exactly that –a mere reaction to the existence of our many volunteer photographers. 

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Since 2005, Rock Ed Philippines has been ending its work-year with a mammoth celebration of Human Rights.  We hold eight (8) simultaneous events in eight  (8) train stations of the MRT line along historic EDSA.  ROCK THE RILES is held every Sunday closest to International Human Rights Day.  (Intl HR Day is celebrated every Dec 10) 

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Since partnering with NOKIA Philippines at the onset of this year, our group has been able to provide and sift through hundreds of children from Childhope Asia and the Virlanie Foundation.  Having to make the difficult decision of focusing on 40 children with artistic potential and the propensity to learn discipline and commitment in the process.

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Engaged in a conversation with this young man, Rock Ed volunteer Reem Hameed realized that there really is wisdom in listening to a child.  They say it as it is. While in town, Reem volunteered for Rock Ed’s continuing project with jails (Project Rehas) and got to know our creative writing class, otherwise known as “the gentlemen poets of Bilibid.”  Hameed is a visiting intern at ECPAT Philippines.  (End Child Prostitution Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) Her mother’s roots are in Escalante, Negros so despite her growing up in the Middle East and now being a law student based in Toronto, she exerts a lot of effort to get to know our country and its issues.  

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We always know ahead of time when Independence Day is coming up.  Vendors along the main thoroughfares will be hawking hand-held flags, some more aggressively than others.  We are all for supporting small enterprise so that’s not the main point of this article.  I think the more important point will be discovering the spirit and the will behind our flag-waving.  June is always a busy month for Rock Ed Philippines, the campuses will be bustling with new waves of activity and student leadership.  Rock Ed will always welcome being invited to visit and make its ‘campaign for nation-involvement’ felt in schools and universities.  Our first stop will be on Wed, June 18, 2008 at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. 

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The young ones of Magallanes Village decided to end their summer with a shindig that makes more sense to them than their usual park festivities. Dubbed as “The Great Summer Bookdrive,” the teen-agers of the village will host an ambitious bookdrive, requesting for donations from their neighboring Makati villages first. Holding it on the last day of May, this gig will end the awarding ceremonies of the summer-long annual sport fest of Barangay Magallanes. Rock Ed volunteer musicians will be performing on that night, check out this line up: THE DAWN, RADIOACTIVE SAGO PROJECT, SANDWICH, CHILLITEES, ENEMIES OF SATURN, SOUTHERN GRASS, MAYONNAISE, URSA MINOR, KING ANTARES, UNNAMED, PITIK and more.

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