May 02, 2023

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

BASKUG Talacogon is a youth organization that uplifts the status of the members, provides social services, and equips them for government activities and programs as a functioning sector in the community that assists the Local and National Government to attain their goals for their constituents; and has been organized on June 24, 2021 which comprises of indigenous and non-indigenous young people with 31 members, 21 male and 10 female at Barangay Office, Marbon Talacogon Agusan del Sur. It is a mechanism to unify the young people of Barangay Marbon, Talacogon, Agusan del Sur, and also to harmonize with young people from other barangay of the Municipality of Talacogon to expand its membership and empowerment about organization programs through the objectives to access support, services, and resources from different line agencies of the government and non-government; to have own company or business to fund the programs and activities; to hold youth camp every last week of May annually competed by the different Purok youth organizations of the barangay to enhance their ability, talent, and capacity in the several aspect of life; to provide programs about Gender Sensitivity to fill the gap between two sexes and to empower about Gender and Development, Republic Act 9262 which is Violence Against Women and Children as a protective measure of mother and her child, Republic Act 7610 which is Special Protection of Children against child abuse, exploitation and discrimination as a protective measure exclusively for the children; and Tutorial on Basic English and Mathematics as learning measure for those students who have difficulties in the said subjects; and to participate in the National and Local Government programs and activities in order to be heard, be informed, or ensure the inclusiveness of the youth sector in planning and decision making.