May 25, 2022

Health, Education, Education, Social Inclusion and Equity, Peace-Building and Security, Governance, Active Citizenship, Environment, Environment

The Ifugao Youth Association (IYA) was then named “Ifugao Students Association (ISA)” at the University of the Cordilleras, Baguio City. On October 2 of the same year, ISA was awarded the Certificate of Registration under the National Youth Commission’s (NYC) Youth Organization Registration Program (YORP). Not long after, ISA was further registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the same year. The organization is centered towards making “a home away from home” for those students and Ifugao Migrants who are currently in Baguio City and La Trinidad. Activities such as socialization programs, leadership seminars/workshops, basic life skill trainings, tree planting, clean-up drives, rip-rapping, charity concerts, outreach programs and countless other activities where ISA has initiated, attended and participated. Soon after, other schools and within Baguio-Benguet have joined ISA and had to move out from the boundaries of the UC to which they directly associated themselves with the NYC and continued operating in La Union, Nueva Vizcaya and Ifugao itself. On 2019, the organization was then renamed as Ifugao Youth Association (IYA). From 2012 to the present year, IYA continues to uphold brotherhood, peace and order, environmental preservations, volunteerism, community service, mobilizing youth abilities and character building in their youthful activities. They have been successfully initiating the latter within the province through the assistance and partnership of government agencies such as the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Local Government Units of per Municipalities and other more. Objectives presented by the aforementioned organization indicates having an active and dynamic youth organization that shall promote and preserve the general welfare and its unity with all the young people within the society; encouraging youth awareness and involvement in civic affairs and consequently instill in their mind the value of friendship as well as unity towards the fulfillment of worthwhile and noble objectives; encouraging officers and members to be responsible citizens and be able to uphold the ideals of the Ifugaos and; supporting all activities and projects of the Local Government Unit through the Local Youth Development Council under the SK Reform Act.