Northern Italy
COUNCIL ON YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Empowering the Filipino youth to reach their full potential and perform leadership roles in their communities.
OUR NEWS
Milan, Italy - June 4, 2014 The Philippine Consul General in Milan, Italy, Marichu Mauro, accepts the challenge to be the convenor of the Council on Youth Leadership Development in Northern Italy (CYLD). She gave her decision and assured the organization in a meeting with the representatives of the council. (Photo from left to right: Consul Helen Sayo, Ma. Cristina Quintos, Congen Marichu Mauro, and Marian Laarni Silva)
One of the objectives of the council is to address the issues surrounding the increasing population of Filipino youth in Italy and the accompanying lack of leadership training and developmental institutions. The founders of the council sought the support of the consulate especially in encouraging other Filipino community organizations to address the issues raised bythe council.
Congen Marichu Mauro (PCG-Milan) will convene the CYLD
CYLD is composed of leading organizers and local community workers from different Filipino organizations in the regions of Northern Italy namely: Veneto, Emiglia-Romana, Piedmont, and Lombardy. Northern Italy is a cultural region and a wide geographical definition, without any administrative purpose, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also informally referred as Il Nord, Settentrione or Alta Italia. It consists of 8 regions in northern Italy: Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino Alto-Adige. According to the 2011 census, its population was 27,213,372.
In the survey of 2013, Northern Italy is home to almost 60,000 Filipinos, and 25% of this figure are the youth ranging from 13 - 35 years old or roughly about 15,000 individuals. [The International World Youth Day authorities determined the age bracket for international youth criteria, i.e. from 13 to 35 years old].
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Launching of the Council on Youth Leadership Development in Northern Italy (CYLD)
Turin, Italy - June 22, 2014 The Council on Youth Leadership Development in Northern Italy (CYLD) was officialy inaugurated and launched. In the picture above are the founders of CYLD with Congen Marichu Mauro officiating the oath taking. From left to right: Darlito Bueno, Marian Laarni Silva, Rosalie Bajade, Mercedita De Jesus, Cecilia Silva, Minda Teves, Ma. Cristina Quintos, and Congen Marichu Mauro.
Congen Mauro was also the Guest Speaker for the first project of CYLD. A servant leadership seminar and workshop with a theme: The Youth That Serves is the Youth that Leads. It was participated by 38 young people from the different regions. It was a 2-day event hosted by ACFIL, a Filipino organization based in Turin, Italy.
CYLD NEWS: 13 October 2014 - Cuneo, Italy
Another milestone achieved! The Council had just completed its leadership training in Cuneo, a remote town in the region of Piedmont, serving as the boundary of Italy to its neighbor France at the northwest corner of the country. Cuneo is home to almost 1,500 Filipinos and is a typical farming community.
The seminar was attended by 42 young souls who came in Italy by way of family reunification in their teenage years. There were also 19 youth participants who were former attendees of past CYLD seminars from Turin and Padova, serving as assistant youth facilitators, thereby totaling the number of participants to 61.
The activity did not come to fruition without the cooperation, help and support of our fellow Pinoys in Cuneo. Their kindness, generosity, and hospitality were felt and observed by way of accommodating the delegation, donating meals to the participants and providing a decent place to sleep for the facilitators.
Community of Cisterna di Latina and the Filipino Catholic Pastoral Center.
October 13, 2014: Another milestone achieved
The Council sends its gratitude to the President of the Filipino Community in Cuneo, Mr. Mario Pedrialva, and to its officers and active members, being grateful for the learning experience. Both camps look forward to next the level-up sessions of the servant leadership training program.
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October 13, 2014 - Cuneo, Italy: CYLD reaches a Border Community next to France