By Rhea Grace La Plana
IPIL,
Zamboanga Sibugay - Philippine Information Office (PIA-9) in
partnership with the National Commissions on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP-9) and US
Embassy Manila conducted a two-day Journalistic Writing Workshop in Ipil,
Zamboanga Sibugay held at Ricomar Pension House and Restaurant on June 17-18, 2015.
Regional
Director Noemi B. Edaga started off the second day by facilitating the recap of
the previous day’s activities. The participants
shared what they learned from the topics discussed.
Director
Edaga elaborated on the essentials and
importance of social media through many different tools like Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, among others. All these play a vital part on being an important
platform to deliver real time news.
Similarly,
she encouraged the 22 IP college students, 14 ladies and 7 gentlemen, to take the challenge to become IP
Patrollers. This way, they can responsibly make citizen reports and deliver
useful information.
The
NCIP EAP scholarship grantees who successfully hurdled the 2-day Journalistic
Writing Workshop belong to different tribes: Two (2) from Samal Tribe, three
(3) from Islam tribe and sixteen (16) from Subanen tribe.
These
IP college students are now ready to face the real world taking the task and
challenge of becoming good effective
writers and IP patrollers.
