Wearing our nationality with abaca pride
Here’s a cool way to tell the world how proud you are of being Filipino:
Wear an abaca wrist band. Or better yet, wear the band and tell them what it means.
Since abaca is the strongest natural fiber and unique to the Philippines, it aims to constantly remind Filipinos that we are tough, resilient and exceptional
This indigenous idea is a campaign of “Yabang Pinoy ” – an organization led by young professionals to raise awareness and heighten Filipino people’s ethos, dignity and pride.
Yabang Pinoy” is a by advocating the use of a piece of braided abaca band that aims to make a statement. The abaca band aims to signify a Filipino being truly proud to be one.
“Yabang Pinoy” is a project of Children’s Environmental Awareness and Action Foundation (CEAAF) whose thrust is environmental education on the richness of biodiversity in the Philippines. CEAAF is a beneficiary of the “Yabang Pinoy” project. For more information on CEAAF, check its website – www.ceaaf.com
What’s important about this campaign?
The Philippines has faced numerous crises like more than four centuries of western domination, natural catastrophes, political misfortunes, and the likes. But through all these difficulties, the Filipino people has survived.
The “Yabang Pinoy” campaign is important to constantly remind the Filipino people to take pride of their nationality.
The “Yabang Pinoy” campaign will collate testimonials of Filipino and what makes them proud to be one.
Yabang Pinoy” also recently won in Philippine Daily Inquirer’s 2BU Click Awards for the Most Clickable Organization. Worthy of it, too, I’d say.
For more on what Yabang Pinoy is about, the abaca band and who’s wearing it, click here.
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Kool na kool ang “Yabang Pinoy” Looks like a credible and worthy cause. I will e-mail them and inquire some more about their goals. Maybe my MC club can help spread the Yabang Pinoy cause here in Los Angeles.
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