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The Probe Media Foundation, Inc. is inviting all college students to apply for Social NetWorth: Mulat Pinoy’s training workshop, focusing on the use of new media and transmedia strategies for communications and advocacy. The workshop will take place on February 24-27, 2012 in Metro Manila, with experts and facilitators from the academe and a variety of media-related industries.

Check out the application form, attached to this email, for more details. The deadline for application is December 31, 2011.

If you’ve got any questions or concerns, drop us a line through popdev@mulatpinoy.ph!

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Download application here.

        

Mulat Pinoy’s “We are Right Here. We are RH.” video contest now has its ten finalists.

This amateur video competition sought to focus on young people and their take on responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and population and development. All the video entries were screened and judged by representatives from the film industry, pro- and anti- RH bill camps, population institutes and religious groups. Videos are judged based on their creativity, visual impact, clarity of message, and social relevance.

Videos which made it to the top 10 are:

Ang Nasa Isip Ko
Baon
Diploma
Kristal
Landas
Mulat Kabataan
Pangarap
RH Bill: Kahirapan o Kaunlaran?
The Game
Tingog

Entries from as far as Cavite, Davao, Iloilo, Quirino, Quezon City and Makati City made it to the top list, and the finalists used a variety of styles: infographic video, animation, drama, experimental.

Most video entries centered on subjects like premarital sex, condoms, teenage pregnancy and overpopulation, showing us the issues in which the youth are most interested or concerned.

Watch the ten finalist videos by logging on to http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh. To vote for your favorite video, simply click Online Voting on the website.

You can also vote via text. Simply text RH VOTE to 2256, where you will be asked to register with RH VOTE <entry number>/<your name>/<age>/<email add>. You can vote everyday. Each text costs Php 2.50.

The voting period is from November 4 to November 26, 2011.

Don’t forget to watch the “We Are Right Here. We Are RH.” TV special on November 20, 2:00 PM on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC).

Aside from fame and nationwide reach, winners shall also get cash prizes, cool and sleek video cameras and trophies.

Special awards shall also be given by the United Nations Population Fund and the Knowledge Channel.

Only the SMS and the online votes can determine the winners, so vote now!

Taken from a press release provided by Mulat Pinoy

        

Want to be on ANC? Submit your videos to Mulat Pinoy’s “We Are RH” video contest
Amateur filmmakers are invited to submit short films on reproductive health.

If you are 25 years old or younger, muster your creative energies and make your video for “We are Right Here. We are RH.”! This amateur video contest puts the spotlight on young people and their take on responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and population and development. Share your views on the use of condoms, family planning, sex education, or anything related to the RH Bill. Be it a public service announcement or commercial, a mini-documentary, animation or a dramatic scene, you have the freedom to speak your mind on video the best way you know how.

Your video should be at least 90 seconds and at most 8 minutes. You can use any type of video camera. Whether it’s a cell phone camera, your iPod or iPad’s Face Time, or a pro DSLR, the sky’s the limit! Final edited videos should be in forms of .avi, .mp4, .mpeg, .mpg, .mov and .wmv. The “We are RH. We are Right Here.” video contest supports originality. Make sure that the videos, clips, movies and sounds you use are your own.

Finalists’ videos entries will be featured in a TV special to be aired on one of the most prestigious networks in the country, the ABS-CBN News Channel. The producers and directors of the winning video clips will also be interviewed. Selected entries shall also be aired on the Knowledge Channel program, Peliculab.

Aside from fame and nationwide reach, winners shall also get the following cash prizes: Php 25,000 for the First Prize, Php 15,000 for the Second Prize and P10,000 for the Third Prize. They will also receive trophies, and video cameras from Creative Zen.

A special citation award shall be given by the United Nations Population Fund to one entry that best embodies their theme for 2011, “The World at 7 Billion.” The winner of this special award will receive P15,000, a video camera and a trophy. UNFPA will also use the selected video entry in their 7 Billion information campaign.

Be part of the discussion. Let your voice be heard. Join “We are Right Here. We are RH.” The deadline for entries is October 15, 2011. For more information visit our website: http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh

Contact:
Regina Layug-Rosero/Dante Gagelonia
Project Coordinators, Mulat Pinoy
Email: regina@mulatpinoy.ph, dante@mulatpinoy.ph, wearerh@mulatpinoy.ph
Web: http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh
Telephone: (+632) 4330456

        

Want to be on ANC? Submit your videos to Mulat Pinoy’s “We Are RH” video contest

Amateur filmmakers are invited to submit short films on reproductive health.

Do you wish your videos were on TV instead of YouTube? Are you a budding amateur filmmaker? Hoping to have your own cool video camera? This might just be your big break!

Join “We are Right Here. We are RH.”! This amateur video contest puts the spotlight on young people and their take on responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and population and development.

If you are 25 years old or younger, muster your creative energies and make your video! Share your views on the use of condoms, family planning, sex education, or anything related to the RH Bill. Be it a public service announcement or commercial, a mini-documentary, animation or a dramatic scene, you have the freedom to speak your mind on video the best way you know how.

Your video should be at least 90 seconds and at most 8 minutes. You can use any type of video camera. Whether it’s a cell phone camera, your iPod or iPad’s Face Time, or a pro DSLR, the sky’s the limit! Final edited videos should be in forms of .avi, .mp4, .mpeg, .mpg, .mov and .wmv. The “We are RH. We are Right Here.” video contest supports originality. Make sure that the videos, clips, movies and sounds you use are your own.

Finalists’ videos entries will be featured in a TV special to be aired on one of the most prestigious networks in the country, the ABS-CBN News Channel. The producers and directors of the winning video clips will also be interviewed. Selected entries shall also be aired on the Knowledge Channel program, Peliculab.

Aside from fame and nationwide reach, winners shall also get the following cash prizes: Php 25,000 for the First Prize, Php 15,000 for the Second Prize and P10,000 for the Third Prize. They will also receive trophies, and video cameras from Creative Zen.

A special citation award shall be given by the United Nations Population Fund to one entry that best embodies their theme for 2011, “The World at 7 Billion.” The winner of this special award will receive P15,000, a video camera and a trophy. UNFPA will also use the selected video entry in their 7 Billion information campaign.

The deadline for entries is September 30, 2011.

Join the discussion. Let your voice be heard. And let Mulat Pinoy be the channel for your shout-out to the world. Join “We are Right Here. We are RH.”

Contact:
Regina Layug-Rosero/Dante Gagelonia
Project Coordinators, Mulat Pinoy
Email: regina@mulatpinoy.ph, dante@mulatpinoy.ph, wearerh@mulatpinoy.ph
Web: http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh
Telephone: (+632) 4330456

Mulat Pinoy: Popdev and Social Media for the Youth
A project of the Probe Media Foundation, Inc.
Supported by the Philippine Center for Population and Development

We Are Right Here.We Are RH.
This video contest is brought to you by Mulat Pinoy.
http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh
wearerh@mulatpinoy.ph

        

The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011, more commonly referred to as the RH Bill, has been the subject of much discussion both on the floor of the Congress session hall and at dinner tables across the nation. At family reunions and office coffee breaks, in groups of clerics and activists, amongst rich and poor alike, every Filipino has an opinion. 

But the sector most concerned, most affected by the issue of reproductive health, be it the RH Bill or simply the chance at maternal and child care, is the youth. It is the teenage mother, who at 16 is giving birth to her second child. It is the boy on the cusp of manhood, looking to prove his masculinity. It is the high school student, whispering to her barkada half-truths about condoms and pills and gonorrhea. It is the child, not even ten years old, who hears his parents having sex in the shanty he shares with five other siblings.

What do they have to say about reproductive health? Do they have anything to say? Do they want to say anything? Mulat Pinoy wants to know. 

The “We Are Right Here. We Are RH.” video contest was launched on July 11, World Population Day. The contest seeks to give young people a say in the matter that affects them most. Young Filipinos aged 25 and below are invited to submit amateur videos between 90 seconds and 8 minutes in length, showing how they feel about the over 3.6 million teenage pregnancies in the Philippines, about condoms and contraceptives, about sex education, about visiting a gynecologist, about premarital sex, about virginity. The deadline for entries is September 30, 2011.

“We Are Right Here. We Are RH.” is presented by Mulat Pinoy, in cooperation with the Philippine Center for Population and Development, the Probe Media Foundation, Inc., Forum for Family Planning and Development, the Likhaan Center for Women’s Health, the Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development, and the Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health and Welfare, Inc.

For more information, please visit http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/wearerh or send an email to wearerh@mulatpinoy.ph.

        

Why we need a Reproductive Health (RH) Bill.

1. The Philippines’ population will balloon to 160 million, and may rise to 240 million,[1] even with lowered growth and fertility rates. This is an economic and national security risk for current and future generations.

• Asian Development Bank:  “Population growth is not a problem if resources are available to cope with the additional people requiring public services, employment, housing, and so on. But in a country where the budget is already stretched and where poverty is high to begin with, population growth becomes a major issue.”[2]
• With a 65% youth dependency rate, the Philippines’ ‘youth bulge’ is a socio-economic and national security risk. Regions with the highest ‘youth bulges’ are prone to poverty-related conflicts. Between 1970- 1999, 80% of civil conflicts occurred in countries where 60% of the population or more were under age 30.[3]

A slower population growth rate through an effective family planning policy will enable the economy to develop and accommodate the doubling of the population at higher standards of living.

        

CONNECTING POP-DOTS: GRAB A GRANT!

The connections between population and development are among the many perspectives used when various sectors try to dissect the poverty rate and related issues in the country. The recent polls and platforms of electoral candidates paid significant attention to this central issue, as they become the essential criteria in lobbying for support.

Population is a basic element of any given system. The development of public health, the economy, education and many others is reliant on the complex interplay between population and development.

In the Philippines, as in many developing nations, the population issue is a pressing one, with basic necessities like food, shelter and education often unavailable or in very short supply compared to demand. Societal concerns like poverty, gender issues, environmental management and much more all rely heavily on population.

For the Mulat Pinoy Media Fellowship: Philippine Population in Focus, applicants have a chance to be awarded grants of up to Php 25,000.00. Participate and be an informed media practitioner! Learn more about population and development, and help us connect the dots.  Proposals will  be accepted until September 6, 2010.

Mulat Pinoy is composed of individuals whose common goal is to harness the power of socialmedia and the Internet to bring about a broader awareness of population and development (PopDev) issues.  The project encourages various sectors to adopt and address PopDev issues in their advocacies, while simultaneously empowering the general public by informing them about what can be done through social media. This is a project of the Probe Media Foundation, Inc. (PMFI) and supported by the Philippine Center for Population and Development (PCPD).

Sex and Sensibilities.com is a proud partner of Mulat Pinoy.
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For additional inquiries
Contact: Mulat Pinoy: Popdev and Social Media in the 2010 Elections
Telephone Number: (02) 433 04 56
Email: mulatpinoy@probefound.com
Web: www.mulatpinoy.ph, www.probefound.com

        

The employees of 88DB and politicalarena.com spent their Friday afternoon with Sex and Sensibilities Founder and Editorial Director, Ana Santos, Pinoy Plus President Jerico Paterno and Mulat Pinoy Content Supervisor, Dante Gagelonia to talk about sex in the Triple S Sexual Health Workshop.

The Triple S Sexual Health Workshop is a trademark programme of Sex and Sensibilities and has three major components:

1. Safer sex and STI prevention

2. Sexual health rights under the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998 (RA 8504)

3. Stigma and discrimination

The content of the Triple S Sexual Health Workshop is developed in consultation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and powered by SASsy LICK condoms who is one of the official sponsors of Sex and Sensibilities.

If your school organization or workplace would like to schedule a Sex and Sensibilities Triple S Sexual Health Workshop, please drop us a note at sexandsensibilities@gmail.com.   We’d be happy to discuss the details of the workshop with you.

        

We have less than a month to go before the 2010 elections — 23 days to be exact.

Sex and Sensibilities commits itself to keep you up to date on all things sexy, sassy and government savvy. Together with our partner, Mulat Pinoy, we will  to tackle the issues of population and development. Those are big words, for sure! But we’ve cut them up into bite sized pieces and related them to other issues directly impacted by our rapidly growing population like education, religion and food supply.

We hope that you will use this information to vote wisely. KICK-SAS on May 11.

The first of the article series on population and development will be about education. It is not unheard of for older siblings to stop going to school so the younger children in the family can continue studying. Studies show that only 28% of high school graduates proceed to college.

But what do the youth really think about this? Hear it straight from them and see how the increasing population affects their education and lives.

• Mulat Pinoy: Population and Social Media in the 2010 Elections’ is a joint project of the Probe Media Foundation, Inc., and the Philippine Center for Population and Development.