Those were the days

I was going through my emails when I opened the email that came from my good friend Aubrey. She sent me a picture of the last Sanguniang Kabataan’s get together hosted by the City Vice Mayor.

I was not able to attend the dinner since Howell was working overtime that day so I suddenly missed my friends from SK after seeing the picture. It brought back a lot of good and not so good memories when I was still the SK Chairman in our barangay.

Since our main target is for the welfare of the youth, most of our projects are sports activities and anti drug campaigns. I remember there was even one time when all the SK Chairmen worked together in order to organized an adult addiction treatment seminar for all the youths in our vicinity. This gave the youths an idea on what they have to go through to get out of drugs so this might help in one way or another, in influencing them to stay clean and to say no to drugs.

Since drug addiction is the number one enemy of the youths, we try to concentrate our projects on activities that will help the youths to stay away from drugs and saving them from undergoing drug intervention program.

And I guess all our efforts were not put to waste since we were able to influence a lot of youths to stay clean, finish their studies and have a chance for a good future.

I guess saving a lot of youths from undergoing drug detox treatment by keeping them away from drugs is my number one accomplishment as a former SK Chairman.