CALLING ALL YOUNG PEOPLE WITH POSITIVE IDEAS aimed to promote health and wellness in their community: UNILAB Ideas Positive is inviting you to join their idea-generating contest on social marketing programs that will address, yes, health and wellness issues.
Unilab Ideas Positive started last year because of the increase in problems affecting communities regarding hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, disease prevention and intervention, as well as environmental care and protection.
Through the Filipino trait of Bayanihan spirit, that of working together to achieve a common goal, Unilab knows that these problems can be given solution when two or more teams or organizations work together.
Unilab aims to not just provide these youth groups with the venue for them to make themselves heard but to help them turn thier ideas into reality. The youth groups then are able to be more creative in shaping their ideals and sense of social purpose in looking for solutions with the problems they see regarding health and wellness in their communities.
Unilab Ideas Positive Award:
A seed fund worth PhP100,000 will be awarded to the winning team. This award money will be used for the implementation of the social marketing program for the communities they have chosen. The two runner-up groups will be given PhP75,000 for their programs.
Unilab Ideas Positive 2010 winner:
University of Asia and the Pacific’s (UA&P) Team Biggkas was last year’s winner. Their “farm in the city” concept, a hydroponics gardening program aimed to teach housewives in Barangay San Joaquin in Pasig City to have their own sustainable source of vegetables, was chosen. Last April, the moms were able to harvest lettuce and kangkong.
The local government of Pasig City has expressed a desire to replicate the same program in other barangays.
Unilab Ideas Positive includes these provinces for 2011: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Bulacan and Rizal.
How to join:
- Form a team consisting of five college students
- Submit ideas to http://www.unilabideaspositive.com
- Deadline is on July 18, 2010
After ten semi-finalists have been chosen from all the teams who have submitted their positive ideas, they will undergo a 3-day camp in August. 2009 CNN Hero of the Year Efren Penaflorida and social marketing guru Dr Eduardo Roberto will help the teams with their social marketing plans.
From ten semi-finalists, five finalists will be chosen to face a multi-sector panel of judges. This panel of judges will pick the team who will the seed money from Unilab.
More info here: Unilab Ideas Positive
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