Unilab Ideas Positive (UIP) 2012

Unilab Ideas Positive 2012 was my first and the best competition that I ever joined. Its purpose is to promote health and wellness in a community with the help of youth/students from different schools in the Philippines. I'm so proud that we were chosen as one of the top 12 teams nationwide. Being part of the top 12 team means that we were one of the best team with the best idea in order to help a certain community in the Philippines.

Before the implementation of our plan, Unilab Ideas Positive conducted a 3-day boot camp for the Top 12 teams. It was one of the best experiences since all of us learned a lot from the different speakers which were related to marketing and advertising activities. Other than that, we made a lot of friends to other teams :)

Credits to Laurence Guirit for some of the pictures

During the implementation of our plan
 The title of our project was Agos Ilog: Isang Panata para sa Malinis na Tubig. Our chosen community was Ulilang Lupa, Malagasang IIE, Imus, Cavite and we chose them since we had seen the main problem of the community which is the polluted river. We want to rehabilitate it with the help of us and our goal was to create Bayanihan Spirit within the community.

"Nakakatuwa yung experience pero nakakapagod din kasi estudyante kami tapos yung free time namin napupunta sa community. Pero ayos lang yun basta makatulong kami sa pinili naming community. :) Mahirap talagang baguhin ang isang komunidad lalo na yung mga nakasanayan na nilang gawin."

"Walang nangongolekta ng basura sa loob ng community kaya para mawala yung basura sa bahay nila, there are 3 ways: sunugin, ilalagay lahat ng klase ng basura sa ilalim ng lupa at ang masaklap yung pagtatapon ng basura sa ilog."

To solve those existing problems within the community, we conducted a lot of activities such as seminars, general cleaning, mini garden and our main project was the community trash can (alternative for bamboo trap since we cannot push it due to bad weather). Thanks to Imus Municipality, Malagasang IIE Barangay Officials, Samahan ng Ulilang Lupa and the residents for their cooperation and helped us to make our activities possible and successful.

After the implementation
We presented the results of our CSR plan to the judges of UIP competition. "Wala ng script script sa presentation. Para lang kami nagkkwento sa kanila and lahat ng sinasabi namin ay totoo at galing sa puso." Although we did not win on the said competition, Unilab said "All Top 12 teams are winners and the real winners here in the competition was the Top 12 teams' chosen communities :)"

I learned a lot in this competition. It doesn't matter if we gave almost our free time to our chosen community, it doesn't matter if we win or lose, as long as we do our best and we just wanted to help for the good of the community.