Ableism And Non-Inclusivity With ML Players

Ableism And Non-Inclusivity With ML Players

Uriel on YSEALI Summit 2023

Everyone has a story, and we're eager to hear yours! This section helps us understand your journey with YSEALI.

 
Your YSEALI Journey — Let's take a walk down memory lane to revisit your YSEALI experience. We're curious about the program(s) that have shaped your growth thus far! This will give us an idea of your overall engagement with YSEALI.
 
Can you recall the exact name of the YSEALI program which had the most significant impact on you, Uriel? — Your subsequent answers will be in the context of this program. This will help us identify the program's unique aspects relevant to your experience.

YSEALI Learns Virtual Course: (1) Community Organizing for Action, 4 sessions; (2) Understanding Climate Change, 4 sessions; and (3) Developing, Mentoring, and Supporting Youth Leadership, 3 sessions

 
 
 
At YSEALI Summit 2023, authenticity matters to us. We want to get to know you–your skills, your experiences, and your future goals. — If you're considering using AI tools like ChatGPT, please ensure that your application remains a genuine reflection of who you are and what you've experienced.
 
Describe your participation in 150 words or less. — Briefly walk us through your experience. Think of this as your 'elevator pitch' about your most impactful YSEALI experience.
    Highlight your role, key moments, takeaways, and accomplishments in said YSEALI program.

Throughout this, personal recommendations I shared include: The most impactful way to solve the climate crisis is by cutting supply chains out from highest emitter of carbon (China) and moving the manufacturing into nations (along the ASEAN region) obedient to globally-accepted guidelines on climate mitigation. This will impact, among other things, not only the climate problem but also the geopolitical threat from a neighboring superpower over ASEAN nations—also since such supply chain imbalance also incentivizes its government’s known operations in oppressing its ordinary citizens. Additionally, in my dialogue to conflict resolution sessions in said courses, having in mind caution and elaboration as to positive and negative kinds of so-called “Avoiders” in handling conflict, to beware of getting problems piling up for types who really need to address problems—and this next which I realized should be further addressed—so long as one is acting out of good faith intentions.

 
 
 

YSEALI themes you have actively engaged with. Since participating in YSEALI Learns Virtual Course: (1) Community Organizing for Action, 4 sessions; (2) Understanding Climate Change, 4 sessions; and (3) Developing, Mentoring, and Supporting Youth Leadership, 3 sessions., what impact have you made in the field of Civic Engagement, Economic Empowerment, Governance and Society, Sustainable Development and the Environment?

 

We'd love to know more about your contributions! — YSEALI Summit 2023 is all about celebrating the contributions made by members like you. This is your chance to shine.

 

Share how your participation in said YSEALI program has translated into real-world impact in your focus area.

I view civics wholly (this YSEALI program included, especially given its format) as not any different to my personal interest for documentaries in certain aspects, i.e. for potentially applicable knowledge it provides and—more especially with civics—(positive) involvement with social concerns or special interest/s it discusses. Said course had reinforced my capabilities for civic and leadership skills. Among other civic mediums where, thankfully, I transmitted some meaningful thought-leadership, I note recorded ASEAN Youth Forum sessions wherein, aside echoing truths and educating about perspectives gained from said YSEALI program, the helpfulness of leadership, youth mentorship, civic engagement and other principles taught therein had reinforced my capabilities in adding value to my civic discourse. Now, post-invitation to candidacy for delegation to its Board, I’m hoping to represent perspectives from truths and lived experiences in our country. This activism partially reflects my main work which—to a large extent, locally-speaking—I do in my independent capacity towards first shaping the social settings right for introduction of progressive ideas novel (new) to societal norms and conventions. Albeit often essentially of abstract or intangible work often understated but a monumentally important role nevertheless, critical to civic success are prior works of messengers profoundly campaigning and promoting such ideas. Otherwise, movements nor their frontlines’ tangible actions just won’t have enough legitimacy nor validity in view of public perception, hence, resistance, therefore, ineffective. Through years of refinement, I’m confident of the personal formula I’ve developed for raising awareness to objectively promote right kinds of (social) change.

 
 
 

Great leaders have a vision, and we're confident you do too. This is your chance to tell us what you hope for the future!

 

Your Vision and Contributions — Your upcoming answers are crucial for us to fully understand your aspirations and how well they align with the Summit's goals.
We recognize the incredible work each YSEALI Alumni is doing. However, with only 150 spots available, we encourage you to provide thoughtful and concise answers that truly represent your vision and contributions.

 

How will the Summit benefit your current work or community initiatives? — Discuss the specific benefits you hope to gain from the Summit that will advance your current projects or career.

Just like in pitching for a start-up to investors for outstanding performers, there are a lot of subtexts that are unsexy parts of entirety of such process but just seen overgeneralized into big marketing pitch events or expos. The marketing and multimedia frameworks copied from me came from a lot of the same unsexy parts of development process: (dinner) talks with people that started with conversing about plans for a monthly to weekly email newsletter that over time had developed into a more and more complex framework concept: a media framework for civic cause. This, too, is analogous to how start enterprises are really developed. I dun’no with other people but such method works for me, has been transferable into how I am resiliently progressing in civics itself, gradually, despite inconvenient truths I bring into discourse. And my main point: I view such participation as not any different in significance to this whole, beautiful process, my civic cause, aside adding credentials and the people I’d know and may potentially connect to and immerse more in person with YSEALI that will definitely have humbling symbolic significance.

 
 
 

What unique contributions will you bring to the Summit, Uriel? — Share the unique skills or perspectives you plan to bring that will enrich the Summit experience for those involved.

Aside my outward intersectional identification with social identities as youth, LGBTQIA+ individuals and being a Person With Disability myself (constant eye-movement), I’ve immersed in differing communities, walk of life, industries and varying political-leanings and realities in them. I don’t present these insights in any pretentious way; even the PWD sector, in my assessment, seems undermined and its civics activities, too, are being used as huddle stages in entirety to identify those with similar political-leanings for post-program, seminar, event recruitment. I do not prefer contributing into intercultural dialogues any falsehood about relevant social facts here, class-dynamics, et cetera. I value democracy and its principles and do not present our society, race, nation and culture in a sanitized and edited way. Opposed to the decade that we Filipinos as a society had always been advertising our own race and nationalism to impose how we run our society onto other societies and as a collective strive for us to be a popular culture. And this negative form of nationalism has historically often been associated with how a nation forgets of its domestic problems. For instance, China’s outward strive for dominance but then see the realities how ordinary civilians are domestically suffering. We have these same realities and status quo, locally and outwardly. Not only with alliance to prevailing politics, most here who’se main personal advertisements are centered on or predicated upon political dissidence against prevailing factions “is still a politics” indicative of some power struggle, either identification with political powers that be still makes one a beneficiary of the system. But almost no one is a dissident against wrongs in our own norms and culture, inconvenient truths that need to come out into proper mediums. I am confident that I can change the status quo and am now at least still gaining some degree of appeal to some locals despite these unconventional domestic views.

 
 
 

Outline your immediate action plan for the first month following the Summit, Uriel. — Provide a concrete plan detailing the steps you'll take in the first month post-Summit to apply your learnings.
    A SMART plan (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) can help you articulate your steps more clearly.

If ever, a $700 budget when converted into Philippine peso can fund an initial formation (workshop) regarding any one of my primary concerns including: civics being politicized domestically, and subtle stereotyping of youth identity. These may be consolidated into a comprehensive set of societal agendas since I have in mind a format like whole-day-meetings similar in corporate settings, aside having in mind program design analogous to ideation process in drawing board, brainstorming sessions in filmmaking, and focus group study format. For some necessary unsexy parts of executing action plans, I have the option to ask around my networks and other advocacy blocks on costing estimation, auditing assistance, also on project management. I’d begin with a small no. of people (also since that would be an experimentation stage accounting for refinements before replication into larger scale), maybe 4 or 5, and be pioneer change-makers in their civics areas, industry, walk of life. Aside my present networks and national-scale groups I’m moderating, co-founders may also be gathered via ads and other means. It would basically be an action plan to produce a post-meeting action plan from the former. I’ve often been writing and researching work equivalent to a team’s worth in my largely independent campaigns and advocacy. I’d create a relevant set of reflection and self-assessment points, and key ideas and concepts I’d present, entirely towards engaging that empowered collective with a common vision to conceive an action plan, and, equipped with this, collaborate to longitudinally engage in funding competitions from there, hence, sustainability. Formal speaker circuits aren’t necessary at this stage, inspired young individuals and virtuous people of any age-cohort will be capable. Good change to negative cultural processes may be inevitable but it must at least start with a small no. of people, even just with one or two, to really spark some difference.

 
 
 

What long-term impact do you aim to achieve through your ongoing efforts? — Identify the challenge you're addressing, the strategies you'll use, and the systemic change you aim for. Be both realistic and ambitious.

Fixing civic norms itself here, hence, genuine progressivism, would thus aid in making more impact on concerns I have mainly from perspective of my intersectional identities, all towards psychologically-safe social environments for vulnerable, marginalized individuals. Many youth are stereotyped and subject under negative social barriers, neither empowered to discern and comprehend such pernicious cultural processes I’m conditioned to observe. Domestic LGBTQIA+ community has internal inequality, internalized ableism and extreme political division adopted from norms prevailing in broader society. And the PWD sector… aside being politicized, civic advocacy fronts and circuits seem silent at worst and do only brief mentions at best for dialogues that should accompany current state legislation for a socio-economically empowering Monthly PWD Allowance. (near-accomplished) They deny brainstorming towards readying recommendations in advance once said statute is approved, wherein actual implementation mostly take at least a year of procedures (e.g. consultations), with priorities, only less than a month or few. Said policy would give significant independence to grassroots PWDs, while incumbents, to cling to strategic civic positioning for political reasons, longitudinally, want PWDs dependent on their observably repetitive discourse same to their previous and other dialogues, i.e. non-innovations. Instead, they’re observably too busy on congregating for multimedia entity-creation (again, political positioning) or methodically towards such—despite having no other relevant discourse to offer. Before, I thought the problem was just novelty being challenging to their organizational conventions on why, despite promotions as public resource, also my semi-complete PWD Cooperative Labor System framework hasn’t been entertained by any—due to such hidden agendas, aside fact that such proposal came from a specific youth identity they undemocratically reject giving representation to. Raising awareness about these systemic problems and irrational structures in domestic civics is a necessary transition.

 
 
 

What's your vision for YSEALI's role in the next 10 years? — Share your thoughts on how YSEALI could evolve or expand its impact in the coming decade.

So long as humanity exists, ASEAN has to live, trade and deal with the US. If family members, without malice, aren’t getting along well due to differences, given that they certainly have to deal with one another for eternity, how would they be advised? The prevailing views about the US by many in our societies are remarkably negative, despite not reflecting the entirety of US society, i.e. segments in its society are democratic too and oppose anti-Asian hate amongst their compatriots. Nations in ASEAN and the US need each other so long as human civilization exists. The future of ASEAN lies in its young members (future leaders) who, I’m optimistic, are impressionable and—aside socio-political and cultural settings shaped by intercultural dialogues and global connectivity in this information age—likely have better outlook on Western Democracies as time progresses, like our Asian neighbors Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Given such trends, I promote mutually tapping in advance into these, hence, relations beyond those mainly given only by mediocre trade and economic ties. I desire a US working harder in addressing anti-Asian hate within its society and a reciprocation from our part of the world by addressing anti-US/anti-West sentiments in our societies. Moreover, even ASEAN alone with the combined military resources and capabilities of its nations can’t realistically maintain its geopolitical security from Chinese Government oppression. These crucial supra-national considerations where ASEAN should shift towards has been my desire to campaign, addressing vocally the first time in my recorded interview with ASEAN Youth Forum Secretariat and where now, post-invitation to candidacy, I’m hoping to be a delegate in its Board for representing (truths in) our country. Personally, I’m continually seeking appropriate mediums where to channel these concerns.

 
 

Address To Division In Philippine PWDs

A Message To The Philippine PWD Sector

Can I appeal to this entire sector po? Let's have a talk. Sana well-recieved itong message ko sa sektor. I ask you not to shoot the messenger because of these statements. No shooting of the messenger please.

It is clear that drug-norms and able-ism—of survival of the "strong"—and anarchy that it propagates, gaya ng pag tratong normal sa patayan in the open, has no concern for marginalized sectors, especially the PWD Sector. What drug-addicts' views propagate into our societal norms competes and goes against aspects of the norms promoting PWD rights, welfare and empowerment advocacy. This even manifests into tangible aspects, i.e. yung mga ginamit sa drugs ang nakatanggap pa nga ng ayuda during pandemic habang napakaraming PWDs ang na-deny sa 2 tranche ng 8k ayuda. See?

Now, when such fact is clear. Pwede po ba if your political faction opposses anti-illegal drugs suppression in society, please at least don't subscribe sa particular aspect na yon ng political faction ninyo, all else you may support kung yan talaga ang gusto mo. Pero not on this one about drug-proliferation.

May sarili akong isip, I have independent mind. I am politically a moderate, means I don't subscribe myself wholly to any single faction kundi'y basta may public concern ako and relevant sa realm o posisyon nila ay ita-tag ko yan, mapa-Leni man, o Marcos o Duterte, Isko, and, in fact, ang mga kina-classify na literally communist faction talaga open yang mga yan sa civics on PWDs (naka-attend na ko sa conferences nila way back before) kaso puro symbolic discussion lang na walang actual works kaya wala silang difference kahit antagal na, a decade ago na ng aware ako may few conferences sila sa ganon. Basta ba PWD advocacy, kahit sinong politician pa yan na nasa katayuan o stature makagawa ng difference pag ma-acknowledge nila, i-tag, and kung may access makipag-dialogo (sana nga), the better.

No political faction is perfect. I don't think it isn't reasonable when a political faction is egging its supporters to oppose drug-proliferation just because its rival is onto such. Please don't be fooled into subscribing into such unreasonable aspects of your own faction, have an independent mind, di yung basta sunod na lang sa lahat na lang ng sinasabi ng public figure mo lalo na ang unreasonable na'ng rhetoric. If they're egging you so at gusto nilang sumunod ang supporters para mapagsilbihan ang gusto nilang nasa upper hierarchies ng political faction mo. Are you included in the gains if that process kung pagsilbihan mo nga yung saan nila gustong mag-subscribe na unreasonable rhetoric and/or narratives ng mga nasa center stage ng political faction mo? Are you gains of that process para sa saang activities structured ang lahat tungkol sa kanila? Sila ang incentivized no matter what, entablado nila, silang nasa taas ng kada faction, iits their show. Now ikaw part ka ba ng gains of that process para sa unreasonable things they at the top ranks are egging those below to just follow? Di makabubuti sayo bilang disabled individual na pati drug-protectionism ay i-oppose mo rin para sa palabas nila saan sila-silang nasa ranks ang bida. In fact, in Philippine context, mali ang treatment ng drug-use as "struggling," kundi'y a victim-centered approach centered on those victime to offenses and negative behaviors of addicts, i.e. individuals and society itself.

Alam kong mahirap itong matanggap pero sana solid itong sektor pagdating dyan. Drug-protectionism is not for your own good as a Person With Disability. It only serves those in the ranks "who're running their show for and about themselves." You're not part of gains of that process but rather subjects you under its negative implications. Sana po nagkakaintindihan tayo tungkol dyan.

Uriel on YSEALI Fulbright Program: Public Policy

Greetings, YSEALI Fulbright Team!

Here's the link to my video submission posted on YouTube as video requirement No. 6 Essay item on YSEALI Fulbright Public Policy Seminar form. An embedded window would soon be entered in this area of the page.

Passport Information:  /to be posted here 5th Oct when obtained/
Passport Identification Document File:  /to be posted here 5th Oct when obtained/

1. Tell us about a problem in your community related to the seminar theme
Local Understatement: Being Politicized Corrupts Civics Genuinity And Promoted Social Change
As a cultural dynamics-oriented observer also interested in interrelationships between cultures, I have a lot. But what I wanna acknowledge—which I cannot just carelessly disclose locally—is a hidden, underlying one being the real problem in our country: Locally-based civics spheres and their speaker circuits in our country is largely politicized. I can bluntly say that, basically, they're political parties that just resemble something like civics, officially or implied, and not the other way around, or is boldly only the former. Worse, they're immovable from such deep-seated orientation that, to be viewed as legitimate, maintains image of being outside politics, superficially. Local political view is the social currency sneak-peaked at in initial huddle stages in civics recruitment here, serves as either "unspoken" barriers against or path to least resistance at being absorbed into civics entities here, thus, not fostering dynamic views for collective cognition for social concerns solutions, as deep down they care more, than change itself, about politicizing entities to the same political leanings towards any among political plurality. This is the real problem in our country in civics. I am independently addressing the myriad no. of baseline social concerns that have been subjecting my on-going advocacies under a lot of inconveniences towards fulfillment. Thus, despite my present local civic memberships, I’m essentially self-reliant in my advocacies, seeing the call to focusing on educating my advocacies through writing.
 
2. Why would you be a good fit for this seminar?
Almost No One Else Does
I value my principles. I'm a dissident against wrongs in our own Filipino culture and way of life, i.e. for personal views a minority for a set of insights needing representation too. Our society has deeply-ingrained political extremism; either identification with political faction or adversary as advertisement of oneself mostly implies, in the context of our culture, access to social currency privileges from among political powers that be, that is, either way, still a beneficiary of the system. Systemic socialism (communism) here treats you well in contrasting degrees according to individual bias to political powers that be. Everybody's the beneficiary to gains of pushing advertisements about our own nationalism.
 
(National) "Self-awareness does not comfort" but rather "it disturbs" towards upright, progressive (social) change. I do not present our culture in a sanitized way, i.e. a negative type of nationalism. Socialism (communism) nor nazism (national socialism) aren’t ideologies for progress, but otherwise. Moving forward is proving that we’re truly a freedom-loving people, not through forcing our own nationalism to other nations.
 
Without truthfulness to societal flaws of a system being advertised, hence, a cycle of distorted views on social and cultural understanding, campaigning correlations on areas that the global social order needs fixing on only becomes campaigning for replication of one’s flawed system. To break that vicious cycle, I had to be truthful and objective in assessing our own culture, way of life, society and nation. Else, no one will. My principles is what I offer.
 
3. What do you expect to achieve by attending this seminar?
Systemic shallow-mindedness and primacy of survivorship bias is a prevailing trait in Philippine norms, i.e., acknowledgement of superficial achievement automatically overvalued as competence although often motivated by self-inhibiting egoistic pride and cynicism, given our kind of norms. This cultural capital facilitates social processes that preserve the cycle of corrupt values into local civics, professional and intellectual fields, and colloquial spheres that does provide esteemed member status.
 
This seminar as accomplishment—thus legitimization—amidst collective shallow-mindedness overvaluing outward screaming accomplishments and what the ego of many could have wanted (the rules of the game here which I reject subscribing to), would help validate my advocacies for breaking vicious cycles in our country.
 
People transmit what they don't transform. Most locals do not transform contemporary dis-values but contributes to perpetuating them. Also, in this decade that we Filipinos aggressively advertised our nationalism to other nationalities, we, aside offering only "symbolic" things, have only been good at transmitting our national socialism to those exposed to our race's advertisements. I desire to transform this nazism away so that we don't transmit it.
 
Unlike many other social identities here who’re enabled by the system, hence, fewer alike personas often seen in local civics realms in our country but without representation from certain strand of youth identity. This isn’t just a social validation for myself but for segments of society under inequality due to negative social barriers and stereotyping (especially against social mobility, hence, rarely seen in civics circuits here), to be legitimized into having representation in fulfilling areas of life.
 
4. How can you contribute to the seminar?
I’d relate this topic to my personal advocacies:
The geopolitical and geoeconomic situation needs
 
1. Acknowledgement of certain sovereignity’s vulnerabilities and national economies at high-risk recognized as social facts than collectively denied or avoided conversations, like the need for the PWD sector members' rights for acknowledgement of personal pains and struggles, hence, validated.
 
2. Reshaping of roles that in these years have been pivoted away from an equilibrium that is just, likewise to the need for reshaping of social roles in within our local LGBTQIA+ community that, due to strive in power dynamics, similarly had been reshaped out of equilibrium in these years, that now is some semblance of harsh normalcy where those perceived as "strong,” regardless of individual gender-orientation, are disproportionately enabled by the system, often proven as a convenience to encroach on other members or subgroup's rights.
 
3. Needs innovations, likewise to HIV advocacy needing a cultural and sociological model of transmitting the disease than just the current monopoly of the medical model of understanding its proliferation, hence, addressing wider range of avenues for mitigation. And
 
4. Needs, for restorative justice-purposes, a victim-centered approach optioning for nations victimized by geopolitical and geoeconomic dilemmas, likewise to what needs to be reformed in dealing with drug-addiction cases, i.e. restorative justice to the victim at the receiving end of the addict's negative behaviors.
 
I do have thoughts relating to geopolitical and geoeconomic matters, e.g. supply chains, fiat currency, blindspots on inflation, authoritarian propaganda mediums, WEF, etc. I don’t know much about global politics on petroleum-producing states.
 
I'd love to be able to give some of my personal insights directly relating to geopolitical and geoeconomic matters. In fact those are straightforward ones that also will solve the climate issue, for example, strategize shifting the supply chain from highest emitter of carbon and move the manufacturing in demographics obedient to mitigating such negative effects to climate.
 
5. Tell us your plan of utilizing what you would learn from the seminar upon returning to your home country.
Apologies on lack of passport uploaded yet, rather, screenshots of setting an appointment to our Foreign Affairs Department for obtaining it. I propose that a scanned copy of which be forwarded to YSEALI once obtained, and, for some length of time, posted to webpage provided. I have an additional reason as motivation to process such requirement: a possible meeting at ASEAN Youth Forum outside our country as delegate for our nation in its Regional Executive Board, I seek to represent truth and ethical realities, among other things.
 
This is among where I can potentially make efforts to echo learnings. And, of course, I’m reasonable to not give up membership and participation in local civics despite my love-hate dynamics to it; there still are prudent, genuine and good-hearted people in here, I cannot just dismiss that fact.
 
Also, please pardon if my CV itself—I rarely needed upon entering freelance micro-business—hasn’t much included credentials directly related or proximal to socio-political matters. But do give me a chance for this being part of my valuable credentials and social validation amidst resistance of regressive norms against dissidence.  
 
I have to reclaim 10 years of my youth taken away by a vicious cycle of fascistic norms. Passionately, I desire to publish some books, perhaps mainly containing essays. And, despite marginalization, I am optimistic that I can; optimistic, too, that this program’s learning experience design does bring learning curve to its participants and equally make a difference in the broader world. YSEALI, please allow me this as inspiration.

Inspiration: Youth With Disability

CONTENTS:
I. LEADERSHIP
1. What skills have you gained from your experience/s? How could these skills help you in being an effective youth leader?
2. In your opinion, what makes for an effective leader?

Ii. YOUTH WITH DISABILITY
3. What is the sectoral issue closest to your heart? Share a background on this issue. You may share your personal experience, if you are comfortable with it.
4. How do you want to contribute to the Person with Disability community in the present, and in the future?
5. For you, what is an inclusive and barrier-free society?
6. Based on your reading and understanding of the program’s objectives and activities, how do you think you will benefit from this leadership program?
7. You may use this space to share anything that you feel would help us get to know you better and your motivation to apply to the program.
8. How will you engage your fellow Youth with Disability in the community Inclusion? If given a chance to organize a meaningful activity, what would it be?
 
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What skills have you gained from your experience/s? How could these skills help you in being an effective youth leader?  
 
More important than any memorized quote or advice about leadership is (1) personal experience with knowing the reality on the grounds how things really work in contrast to (1b) what can only be read on paper but are way complicated to put to work when in practice. This is just one pathway albeit the latter being an important backing to be able to comprehend and understand more what experiences unfold before a person’s life. As equally important, when one is in such valuable experience/s is (2) the capability to listen to what insights such personal experiences may bring about. Of course, being human thus having human limitations in time and resources, no one can be at all such realities all at the same time. Thus in such cases (2b) “listening” to those who have undertaken or are undertaking such reality/s is preferably a reliable substitute to actually going through something or having first-hand personal experience that should be part of what things are to be properly considered in making a decision process, given that, again, (1b) related knowledge is known to a person from which to, with competence, make sense of things to be discussed. Personal experience with reality of differing things in life is of no doubt crucial for competently understanding and comprehending such human facts and properly having the voice to address it, which, to be genuine, requires (3) the sensitivity to social concerns as a necessary part of having the motivation to make a difference in response to such realities of how things around in culture may be structured (unfairly), in this case, around a person with disability. Otherwise, such strive for broadcasting what one has to say is only an honesty that lacks compassion.
Throughout my life I denied to myself outwardly identifying with my clearly physically-challenged circumstances, I tried to hide it in all my past employment and hadn’t honestly confessed it during my whole years as a student so that something helpful could have been done at the school-level. Until mid-way in time when pandemic was still really bad only then did I came to be open with identifying with my disability and advocated for the sector’s concern initially through social media; I sought social change to happen starting with sharing knowledge to my fellow PWDs curated for gaining ability to comprehend what social injustices maybe happening to them. During such length of time of my self-denial about my disability, I’ve tried to engage with a lot of differing things that normal people were into but was unsuccessful and in all that I learned the hard way differing subconscious social barriers that are enforced in society that bar disabled individuals from progressing in almost all aspects of life, as I had gone through myself. This realization had been the major motivation underlying my present 2 years of trying to share online to the disability sector what pitfalls every disabled individual may be drawn into in a world that is generally made for physically-normal people to thrive in as I had personally experienced. Perhaps needless to say, I’ve unintentionally transcended in between having a somewhat normal life while in fact being physically challenged but hiding about it as with the underlying difficulties associated with bearing my eye-problems; I had been sandwiched in between those worlds and it was a very unpleasant experience in which the consolation I desire is bringing these experiences of disability more into mainstream, gradually, so that in the process societies eventually validates and acknowledges pains and struggles that disabled individuals experience; part of this process of what social change I had been seeking is what had been motivating me to put up a platform for PWD advocacy in general, and founded upon principles of ethics as a whole, as societies having high standards of ethics is what I envision as a long-term solution to making humanity a more psychologically-safe social environment/s for PWDs wherever one is, whether locally or abroad.
 
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In your opinion, what makes for an effective leader?
 
In my preceding answers above, I add a commitment to keeping high standard of morals as that is oftentimes where most wannabes nowadays who aspire some higher achievement are short on (especially due to times being narcissistic), that is, on what morals they are to influence to others and what they’d stand for once they get what they wanted and thus become an icon status, perhaps. Access is much easier nowadays unlike in conventional times, why not increment upon such ease ensuring that oneself’s views on ethics is suitable to universal ethical principles, e.g., values underlying PWD rights and welfare advocacy. Many have the motivation (another important factor in being a leader) to amass touching upon more and more people’s lives by striving for popularity but without one’s morals growing with rise in status, a distinguishing characteristic between good and bad leaders, that is, the latter having the motivation but reject or neglect ethics.
Another basic leadership skill is communication skills. As with showing up where crowd are at to observe crowd behavior, for years now I’ve been in the habit of meeting new people to have conversations with and in those such circumstances I try to engage with educating about culture, lucky if such listener is also interested in discussing social issues having to do with ethics too. Lucky, too, when who I’m talking with likes a little history. In this process of immersing with different people and crowds I try to learn too, for engaging in the socialization process is an aspect of learning that a leader will need some level of mastery over, especially that different types of people and crowds require different types of approach to be effective in leading. I am treating such interaction as rehearsing my capability to communicate abstract concepts and ideas that are difficult to get across verbally; practicing even before opportunities to express my advocacy in much bigger platforms arise, exercising how to communicate ideas and concepts clearly represented in my mental processes—as that is easier—but are difficult when trying to deliver unto others into a dialogue. I have to do it right and effectively when such opportunities arise, for it is a given how difficult it is to discuss abstract relationships, as with vocally explaining how culture works, social issues and concerns that in general are quite easier to tackle. And so my long-term motivation to practice such. Only recently have I realized that what I have been doing unconsciously as I meet new people is practicing my skills in communicating these profound matters, somewhat like mini or partial dry-runs even before I come into point in my life when bigger means of educating people presents itself (and to which I have this mindset of finding and gradually preparing for; I always sought social change to happen) where I can make efforts to shift public discourse into social issues and concerns, mainly those which I am openly advocating for and, especially, those deep-seated causes of injustices to disabled individuals in society; I am fully aware how hard it is both to comprehend and convert into understandable verbal explanations these realities of life, and so I want something to do about this difficulty, and which I am making efforts to practice at present, again, as communication skills over such will be necessary in leading social change by bringing these things not only in writing but also in oral communication into public discourse.
 
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D. YOUTH WITH DISABILITY
 
What is the sectoral issue closest to your heart? Share a background on this issue. You may share your personal experience, if you are comfortable with it.  
 
I’d like to address barbarism (undermining “weaker” people individuals, especially those who can’t fight back), Trumpism (rejection of merit and fundamental professionalism) and Putinism (despise for values of democracy, thus, antagonism of freedom of speech and of expression, most especially “free will”) in culture. Our society unrighteously imposes layers upon layers of disadvantages under which every disabled person is at the receiving end of, thus barring the free will of PWDs and that would need freedom of speech and of expression to initiate counter-culture against. Most of the time, no matter the level of competence, credibility and capability of a disabled individual, one’s social environment just have those subconscious social biases that bar a disabled individual from progressing further in each aspect of life as compared to how much a physically normal person would achieve with the same amount of effort. Oftentimes these cultural processes are unspoken facts and realities and the fact that such things and circumstances are abstract concepts that are for deep discussions make them more less likely touched in daily dialogue; my mind is set to bringing these discussions more and more into mainstream. (At present, we only have these facts and realities in public discourse at the level which are generalizations of, e.g. “rejection and discrimination” in employment, denial of legally-mandated discounts of PWDs, and the like, but what about the more deeper causes like multitude of differing social constructs, thought processes and system of beliefs?)  
 
Part of doing this is the op-ed (opinion editorial) framework I’m establishing called UV-Rays* which is for educating and advocacy in general, grounded on ethics principles, a medium for freedom of speech and of expression, democracy, and of course a platform for PWD rights advocacy. But necessarily included among these and what I personally want to stand for as among my personal brand is a critic of our own society. We need to address barbarian norms that still exist in Philippine culture. We Filipinos are so nationalistic that we’re aggressively promoting our race to other nationals in every time we have the opportunity to do so, thus in advertising for ourselves entails an astronomical rejection of being true about what wrongs our society still has up to present. But those are just beliefs. We Filipinos do not understand that to be a great nation we need critics that scrutinize our own culture and be true to ourselves. Look at Germany they had accepted criticisms of Hitler’s Nazism but look at how their economic trade is strong; Israel—which is almost similar to the Philippines in having a diaspora all over the world—also has numerous of it’s citizens and scholars who try efforts to bring up into conversation what are the wrongs of Israel. The US and UK also has such culture but had not been much sources of deterioration of their societies but adversaries’ propaganda like from Russia. Even Africa and Indians has critics who are blunt in honesty about what’s wrong in them like how filthy and poor Africa and India is, and yet such self-criticisms are not stopping their nations from being emerging economies neither are their talents from being mainstream in the US and West. (and they have plenty) This is what Philippine society does not understand, it tries to silence honest criticisms of it’s own culture as a whole. That’s not how great societies are made and that is what social role I aim to fill: that there’d be checks-and-balances of our own culture and norms. If other cultures see that we have these checks-and-balances and not hide and silence dissent, that is, a true democracy where court of public opinion is open to dissent and criticism instead of aggressively advertising ourselves with sanitized versions of what the Philippines is like, we won’t need any dedication to cultural expansionism and perceived greatness will come naturally as other cultures see the Philippines as a true democracy where dissent is allowed. These are what made the US, the UK, Germany, France and other democracies great nations, one of their main strengths is being societies that are open to criticisms even of itself.
In part, I’d like the platform I am establishing to appeal to Western culture, i.e., the US and West European nations, that currently have local icons in mainstream who represent Africans like Trevor Noah and Arabs like Mehdi Hasan (who I personally look up to), as well as Jews who’re much plentifully represented in their upper echelons of Western culture. But despite that, Philippine society has no such mainstream counterpart yet in those advanced societies. I envision the branding that fills that gap that represents our culture but understands how Western culture too is having characteristic of involving PWD rights and welfare advocacy with emphasis; recently, climate change advocacy has brought the Philippines and the US closer, I am seeing the potential of PWD sector interests to bring the Philippines and the West with even closer ties. That is why my personality and views are heavily predicated upon respect for Western culture, and platform I am building being in part an appeal to the West in general. My motivation underlying this lies in what I saw from personal experience in these years: Our own government isn’t enough help to members of the sector, that’s why my main focus is an appeal to the West and international society to attract state and non-state actors here to create programs for local PWD sector in the Philippines.
 
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How do you want to contribute to the Person with Disability community in the present, and in the future?
 
One of the reasons I’m establishing an internationally-suitable—especially Western democratic values-oriented—site is to reach differing demographics and hoping to be a medium and outlet to unite PWDs of differing cultural backgrounds to a common set of liberating values and principles for welfare of PWDs that can be shared no matter the region of the world where a Person With Disability lives, uniqueness of personal circumstances or individualism.
I’d like to educate on broad democratic values as “understanding” of such principles that will be among critical factors equally as important as existential, basic needs to PWDs. That will be a determinant of what will save PWDs as a whole and in the long-run; I do not want PWDs to remain not able to comprehend causes of disadvantages, inequality, discrimination, bullying, etc. where one stands in his or her social environment and nation, how society works both in the big picture and deep down, and a disabled person’s place in that society to answer why a disabled person’s rights should not be denied, because there are universal ethical principles and worldviews that ought to govern civil societies for the good of all. And when PWDs are made more aware and can comprehend more one’s individual experiences of injustices and collective, social anxiety, that then would manifest into public discourse with much effectivity and this will a significant catalyst of social change. Whenever something, whether material or immaterial, tangible or intangible, i.e. an event, craze, social issues (in being addressed), trend, etc. has surfaced into significance in public discourse, that is a determining factor that shapes direction of a culture that contains such public discourse into what it will become, how it changes it’s definition of it’s norms and other elements in it, how it updates what it encourages, permits and discourages. I see the necessity for the PWD community to be more philosophical and be vocal about it as that will greatly impact the situations of the community and it’s members especially in the long-run. That is why I wanna educate PWDs on differing philosophies in life, values of democracy so as to be able to understand more one’s struggles, hardships, and leverage that awareness for improvement of living conditions of Persons With Disability/s. This can be taught in Filipino and I’m looking forward to be able to start here in parallel with laying the groundwork to reach internationally across borders with my platform UV-Rays* which I had in mind being primarily predicated upon educating on understanding how to understand the workings of differing cultural factors which are among deep-seated causes of social injustices undermining condition of PWDs. But of course understanding democratic principles alone isn’t enough remedy for what conditions PWDs are experiencing now at present. There needs to be practical things done as well. This is why I am establishing UV-Rays*, as I hope the platform with connections abroad that I hope can be established alongside what it will turn into, that is, to uproot, to be a means to gather some funding for actionable civil programs, action-plans for improvement of PWDs starting from the Philippines and make sure through the platform for PWD sector’s interests and cause that it grows into that actions and programs done are making an impact and assured they reach who they’re supposed to benefit. Alongside educating on ethics and morals and democratic principles to make as much impact on ethical standards around the world as that promotion of public morals with that method as a major way would make for safer social environments for PWDs, with deeper adoption of universally accepted moral principles in different societies, thus indirectly benefiting PWDs throughout the world that reside or is a member citizen of that nation. I hope to educate on better comprehending our vulnerable and disadvantaged life and cultural experiences as such would also be a medium to express oneself and one’s views, struggles, hardships, difficulties, starting within Philippine society itself. That of course will involve directive for creation of seminars, tutorials, discussion groups when means and capabilities make so such service feasible. And as such programmes, aside from in part being an activism, online, are at least socialization process in itself that has potential to broaden perspective and learning of disabled individual.
 
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For you, what is an inclusive and barrier-free society?  
 
The Philippines cannot go on in advertising it’s own culture to foreign societies while locally what’s happening is welfare of it’s marginalized members which includes PWDs and peasants are being left behind disadvantaged, i.e., excluded from progress of a whole nation. Aggressive nationalism (which the Philippines now is at the stage of doing, collectively) nowadays has negative implications, i.e., nationalism was the slogan of Hitler’s colonial exploits while many of it’s citizens is in local crises, nationalism is also among the justifications behind Russian insurgency of Ukraine weaponizing rationale of saving Russian-speaking population in it’s eastern borders. And while that’s happening ordinary Russian civilians who’re innocent from crime of Ukranian insurgency are suffering locally. The Philippines is at the same tage of national development at present that, in contrast, such colonialism is in a different form than classic ones, that is, in our collective promotion of our own culture we are being invasive of other cultures. But while that’s happening, locally at the undercurrents of culture marginalized members of our society which includes Persons With Disabilities are being left behind. When our society gets what it wants in advertising itself to other nationalities, marginalized members of society aren’t the beneficiaries of such collectivized pursuit but only to those who already have gained the system or are already thriving in it and that is because our culture is a socialism that is twisted in a way and which need to be addressed. Local economy has quite improved as compared to decades ago and many have improved standard of living that’s why the population collectively desires expansionism in promoting Filipino pride to other cultures for the benefit of the majority who already are beneficiaries of the socialism we have as norms, that is, socialism only for the benefit of them while welfare of the marginalized are excluded; those already benefiting from the system are granted the free will to attain more while on the other hand social barriers are metaphorically being placed around those who’re least in society to be suppressed, socio-economically and in different areas of life. The way our society with it’s twisted socialism is doing now is not what makes nations great. (At present I have my mind set to finding mediums where these deep social problems may be discussed, orally—as I need to practice verbally communicating these concepts before much bigger platforms open to giving voice to PWDs may eventually present itself; I want such to be public acknowledgement of pains and struggles of PWDs.)
An inclusive and barrier-free society, to me, looks like (1) a society where dissent that scrutinizes what are wrongs in our own culture are allowed without repercussions or negative reinforcement especially when such claims are legitimate. Thus, (2) there’s a norm with genuine freedom of speech and of expression from which (3) pains and struggles of PWDs as with other marginalized sectors are “acknowledged and met with compassion, not shamed.” The PWD sector can only significantly get such when we can make efforts to lobby into the court of public opinion bringing into public discourse—but most significantly mainstream—opening our pains and struggles as physically-challenged individuals for wider social validation, from that will spring ease with implementing concrete welfare policies that are helpful for PWDs. That is why I seek to go mainstream albeit I have eye-problems that may be observable when looked at closely; there’s no other way of significantly and concretely structuring large part of our culture and society, that is, according to what social change is sought in what the PWD sector may be bringing into public discourse every now and then but in fact only have temporary effects, dialogue in mainstream is necessary for shifting how our society treats of disabled individuals, whether in person or in the big picture.
 
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Based on your reading and understanding of the program’s objectives and activities, how do you think you will benefit from this leadership program?  
 
[1] Where in any medium it can be proper that I'm expressing my interest in culture, democracy, some history, etc., I’m sure to share those into conversation and dialog when related to the point/s of conversation and appropriate to the circumstances, and this program, aside from helpfully reinforcing my awareness about leadership principles which I’d need—and any person desiring to pioneer something great or bigger achievement would likely also need—some formal ritual that is communal in nature and at the same time exactly where one’s leadership training will be, and it can be either formal or informal but competently structured. This program would be a venue where, in my participation, I may be able to share anecdotal perspective into for the benefit of everybody whenever I can, especially that fellow learners admitted into said program are likely to be working on leading on something purposeful for the PWD sector, therefore my potential part in maybe being able to contribute to better shaping foundations of their start-up. That is achievement for me as such parts of the PWD community are in the position that's critical for progress of the whole sector and it’s members. (My apologies if ever I’m writing in complicated manner thus far or in this item in the form, as I am heavily influenced by British- and European-style of writing philosophy and politics textbooks/publications; this is why I’m vocally practicing having dialogue with these such things that pose difficulty in communicating so that I can practice engaging these into dialogue but that’s more concise, understandable and suitable even to layman comprehension for listeners who’re not usually discussing about these things.)
[2] Accomplishing this program would definitely be very helpful in building my portfolio, thus, proof of competence when time comes I am that more capable to be able to engage in bigger platforms that seeks dialogue with the disability experience. Just like in every opportunity that’s mostly formally structured, I have this mindset of making efforts to make an impact in my participation. Aside from these, in particular regarding the access to PIN and KASALI afterward upon graduation from the program that's mentioned in this form and in social media invitation to join the program, [3] I am anticipating that such maybe part of what will be helpful in finding PWDs interested to do collaborations with the site-platform that I have in mind of seeking to be have partners in. Now it’s an indie medium and if I could have collaborators in the advocacy site since last year, it could have been filled with a lot of contents by now as I have quite a library of reserved and yet unpublished content ideas; I was still researching how to make a website the same time I’m recording my set of ideas for educational and advocacy content. I’d want that platform to be SEC-registered as an entity when it gets big so that it can issue official COE’s and certificates for PWDs that will be interns in it and become help that PWDs may add to what they may present into job applications, and of course it’s built for PWDs and I’d want it capable to be paid internship for PWDs. That site is a set of sites of varying fields and interests under one common framework called UV-Rays* and I am still on the process of creating orientation materials for collaborators on foundational values uniform among all the site under the framework, especially that these will have heavy emphasis on ethics, democracy and social justice, aside from PWD advocacy in part. First among these is UV-Rays* EVE on https://uvrayseve.blogspot.com/2022/11/income-for-persons-with-disability-pwd.html#onFacebookPost With partial inclusion of PWD advocacy in content on https://uvraysandre.blogspot.com/2022/12/remedying-us-democratic-struggles.html#pwd on UV-Rays* Andre and on https://uvrayseditorial.blogspot.com/2022/11/meta-poses-danger-to-writing-industry.html#pwd on UV-Rays* Editorial as another part of the framework
 
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You may use this space to share anything that you feel would help us get to know you better and your motivation to apply to the program.  
 
[1] I am an advocate, too, of making societies drugs-free, of course but none of the EJK matters when really in existence; keeping within the bounds of social justice and rule of law is still a legitimizing factor for any advocacy of social concerns. Having mentioned “rule of law,” it is also among my foundational views. That is why I antagonize Putinism as among my main values—in fact coincidentally rejected by the West too—as that implies a culture that doesn't acknowledge the rule of law, for in such a state of anarchy neither are PWD rights acknowledged. (PWD rights are acknowledged in principles of rule of law and democracy. Such a culture of anarchy that has no sense of rule of law is also catalyzed by barbarism and gang culture influenced by illegal drugs activities (being interested in culture, I quite catalogued sampling of belief system and worldviews of those on drugs and assess such concerns that culture of narco-society as being inversely related to welfare of PWDs), and so my advocacy for drugs-free societies and nations.
 
[2] I want to be among those to advocate social change for more and more Person With Disability/s to have better life, socio-economically. And from that point on when the sector has already been able to solve many of the deep-seated problems experienced by it’s members, I envision PWDs—starting from the Philippines—with the ease of lesser troubles in life due to social change, sooner able to advocate not only for it’s own community’s interests but other marginalized communities and individuals as well. I wanna shape the sector into something that the public and this world perceives as not only centered on it’s own concerns but with social justice concerns beyond the core needs of the community, and through that be able prove our worth to humanity.
 
[3] I'm also motivated to shape a future where more PWDs are engaged in the field of writing; the sector will need more writers to advocate through such industry as that is yet much of an untapped medium for PWD rights and welfare advocacy. A lot can’t do that with ease but many in the community still should and must explore advocating in that avenue.
I know it would be difficult for a lot of disabled individuals to adjust and do these, but that is what a coach does: putting people out of their comfort zone in ways that facilitate growth and/or learning. But of course I have in mind preparing presentations for seminars that seek to empower and equip PWDs to learn the field, especially valuable information they don’t teach in schools.
 
I desired to be a writer from a decade ago and recently have I realized how it had been among the major factors which had shaped my life; I could have just written piece by piece anything I want to publish during those times I was socially deprived and can’t go with people I know on next big things what they’ve been up to. That’s a real writer’s life: you sacrifice going instead with activities of people you know just to finish writing manuscripts. That had contributed to my social deprivation back then, I got what I asked for. I had recently realized that had been very much like the life of a writer in the making. Sacrifices.
 
[4] Having lost my contacts due to certain events, I could have included in my character reference a mix of reference for (4a) civic participation (now just online due to restrictions of the previous pandemic when it was still very bad), (4b) web design or computer science background (as, of course my nature, I had been finding people to talk with platform-website I am trying to build), and (4c) a reference as regards history—as some knowledge on this is crucial in my interest in studying culture, including how cultural changes shifts into. Of course with the economic disadvantage of being afflicted with disability, I had been a drop-out of college course in Legal Management and it was difficult to be in between being able to graduate in college and finishing high school. Situations are difficult to control where my life went especially with those barriers I experienced in employment where you can either only be high school graduate or bearing a degree to be employed. That is in addition to difficulties of being employed as a PWD. So, as usual occurrence with disability experience, I didn’t know at that time where to really belong in a society made for physically-normal people to thrive in. I did try as an intern in government, I tried applying many jobs, I volunteered and participated in civic organizations, served in church, became a member in a political group that was eventually dissolved, got into skilled work, into sales and others, and saw differing social barriers and the procedural processes in culture that undermine the welfare of disabled individuals. I got from these immersions insights necessary in my interest in studying the dynamics of culture. In between these I tried to self-study on different subjects that are helpful to comprehending what had been happening to me. Pandemic came and that was when I fully committed to spreading awareness about how disabled individuals can make sense of and comprehend what’s happening in one’s physically-challenged life. That was how I got from not finishing Legal Management into an interest in history and cultural studies, web-design which I need to build a platform where I’d post my writings on and interest in civic participation.
 
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How will you engage your fellow Youth with Disability in the community Inclusion? If given a chance to organize a meaningful activity, what would it be?  
 
The primary program I’ve always aspired for the sector to have are field trips with seminars in between the trips, will especially be helpful to PWDs with the learning that can be attained with the socialization process in it as with listening to seminars. A shared common experience is what strengthens ties of solidarity and understanding among participants of any collective group, i.e., the purpose underlying team-building occasions in employment, and why civic organizations that have regular gatherings of any form in person have longevity. Building a (1a) community for PWDs where each are educated and thus empowered will require this collective personal interaction that will convert into shared common experience/s and keep higher virtual engagement after physical participation, in contrast to how much easier it is to be dissociated when interactions are almost just online, most especially when there’s not any face value in one’s association into an entity.
Honestly, PWDs often lack the borderline degree of perspective that are minimal in physically-normal people and this is due to inherent socio-economic disadvantages that, in the first place, bar PWDs from attaining some level of enough socialization processes from which (competent) interpersonal and people-skills may be attained, thus the need for some level of (1b) varying immersion of disabled individuals into differing communities and places to have some growth of one’s horizons. And, wherefore, learning about broader things in life also comes from (1c) proper type of mediums for education and/or trainings like sitting down and participating in seminars, workshops and the like, therefore a venue that enhances personal assets that may be enhanced much further in cases of being differently-abled. These three combined into a field trip program for PWDs with seminars in between the trips I think will be an efficient program for disabled individuals that will be have more impact beyond the sum of these individual aspects’ value when done, implemented or achieved separately. Of course eligibility to such activity will be based on safety of the person included depending on manageability of one’s disability in the trip; and why not include volunteers from professions that will be needed in assisting through the trip like those in medical profession as safeguards when emergencies may come, but also in part for getting more people being personally immersed in the sector in being part of in assisting in programs for disabled people. Also equally important for considering into safety purposes is avoiding venues that are risky for safety, including when the route going to destination will include rides along roads aside cliffs as had happened in field trip buses that were headlined in news.
 
Either case, another baseline program I want for PWDs to have are (2) seminars and workshops for personality development. I realized this need that members of the sector should know about during time I once showed up in PWD gatherings with very residential settings; I desire the sector as a whole to indubitably be more honorable with knowledge about personality development; that will be very valuable for each learner's social growth and preparedness for economic progress, thus, source of more genuine confidence when the sector’s member’s life-circumstances improve. And it will do improve with campaign for PWD rights and welfare advocacy; my 2 years of individual campaigning in mediums I have access to (mostly local campaigning, a few are at international) have at least partially been gaining some results for local PWDs at present (I have interest in observing culture and quite tracking how our local society [norms] shifts into), and collective efforts of the community gradually towards these ends had been working and will continue to be and needs to be encouraged. Thus, the sector will need preparation of it’s members to.

Uriel on PUP-CORE's Empowering DiverseAbility

Uriel on PUP-CORE's Empowering DiverseAbility.

     Former Title: Uriel on PUP-CORE DiverseAbility.

Will be initially available in  two languages  initially.

For now contents at UV-Rays* are in the English language.
Translation into Filipino language (author’s native speech alongside English as primary languages spoken) will be available soon, and will have translations available in other languages in the future when resources and/or opportunity for collaboration which presents itself permits so, hopefully.

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This is Vesper Gamboa's participation timestamps at the workshop "Empowering DiverseAbility: Disability-Inclusive Future Through Research" held by our state universies and as a public at Day 2, where timestamps of my participation—which are in our native language half the time and the other in English—are: (1) 55:10 – 59:10; (2) 1:45:11 – 1:47:00; (3) 1:53:32 – 1:54:41; and (4) 2:51:26 – 2:46:00; while at Day 1 I similarly had 3 times participation (my personal limit as I talk quite long, inclusive of anecdotes) throughout the session. Link of the transcript is at a webpage on UV-Rays* EVE, https://uvrayseve.blogspot.com/2023/04/uriel-on-pup-core-diverseability.html (to be updated), while proof of my certification is at: Google Drive link which was sent by email notification which I saved onto my personal cloud storage alternatively as back-up.

Preferable Social Environment Around PWDs

 

December 2, 2022 will this be summarily available as an initial draft.