December 09, 2024

Health, Education, Active Citizenship, Environment

The YOUTH FOR ENVIRONMENT IN SCHOOLS ORGANIZATION (YES-O) is a school-based Co Curricular Organization which serves as a significant venue for students’ actions and movement toward safeguarding, protecting, and conserving the environment for future generations. It is an organization that provides leadership in formulating policies and standards to collaborate individual and group environmental actions in all government and non-government organization. The YES-O shall have the following objectives: a) Be aware and create awareness in others of the state of the Philippine environment and ecology, including prevailing issues and concerns relative thereto; b) Establish specific and doable programs, projects and activities to address issues and concerns on the environment and ecology; c) Network with other government and non-government organizations, including other Youth for Environment in Schools (YES) Organizations in other schools within the Division and Region, with regard to support and assistance to programs, projects and activities of the organization; d) Encourage community participation and initiative in environmental and ecological movements and actions and; e) Develop among the members and the community proper environmental values, skills and attitudes.