Reaching the Youth

For the mid- term 2019 elections, the Voter’s Education Committee prepared early and wanted to focus on three things – innovate through the use of campaigns and online platforms, expand its reach, and lastly, target the youth.

With this in mind, the Committee was divided into four main groups: 1. Module Review and Development, 2. Voter’s Ed Campaign, including Youth Ambassadors, 3. Training and Roadshow, and 4. Online Platform. The Committee is composed of both new and veteran PPCRV volunteers from a diverse set of backgrounds who wanted to contribute to the organization’s nation-building efforts.

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Starting in 2018, the volunteers conducted several rounds of Focus Group Discussions, key interviews, and reviewed existing PPCRV Voters Education Module. They enhanced the past modules, while sticking to the core elements and values of PPCRV- including KKK (Karakter, Kakayahan, Katapatan) and One Good Vote. But the main challenge was how to reach more people effectively and more importantly, how do we reach more youth?

The group introduced several new initiatives including, Learn, ppcrv.org, a voter’s education online course, developed in partnership with EastWest Group, and powered by Apptitude. This online training platform facilitated the training of 988 trainers and issued 710 certificates over the course of the election period.

Animated by the SPIRIT of Volunteerism

In the May 2019 Midterm Elections, PPCRV partnered with numerous schools and universities to mobilize volunteer poll watchers on election day and encoders in the Command Center. Animated by the spirit of volunteerism, youth volunteers signed up with their schools and universities and became involved in various campaigns: volunteer recruitment, One Good Vote video making, and voters’ education fora nationwide. For instance, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines mounted a video making campaign on One Good Vote and generated numerous video entries from colleges and universities.

Partner academic institutions such as Thames, Asia Pacific College, Assumption Antipolo, De La Salle University, UST, PUP and others organized voters’ education and candidates’ fora. School-based volunteers (faculty, administration and students) were likewise essential additions to the muscle of the Command Center as volunteer encoders for the unofficial parallel count.

Among those were: Espiritu Santo Parochial School of Manila; Manila Cathedral School; Miriam College High School; College of
Saint Benilde; De La Salle University, Taft; Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Adamson University; and others. Ivan Garong from MDI and PPCRV Youth Coordinator for recruitment of command center volunteers did a fine job and successfully enlisted a continuing force from high schools and universities even as final exams were ongoing at the time. Professors and teachers also offered to help in the encoding of ERs. The PPCRV is ever grateful!

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All in all, there was an average of 90 to 100 volunteers per shift per day from May 13 to June 13. With three shifts a day, an estimated total of 8,100 to 9,000 were cared for, nourished and inspired by the PPCRV UPC Command Center by the end of operations. These unwavering faithful who sacrificed time, talent and treasure to ensure truthfulness in the results of the 2019 polls gave the best of themselves – for God
and country!

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