With the theme “Youth Acting Together to SAVE the Environment,” Olongapo’s Sangguniang Kabataan Federation and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines-Olongapo will jointly launch the re-organization of the Youth Network of Environmental Advocates (YNEA) in the city in a symposium set on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at Saint Joseph School’s Social Hall.
YNEA is an emerging youth organization basically focused on promoting environmental consciousness and youth involvement in mitigating the ill effects of climate change and global warming in support of the government’s environmental programs.
The objective is to organize one YNEA chapter in every Barangay, in every school and every College campus in Olongapo and the Subic Bay Freeport (SBF).
With the City’s advocacy to combat climate change and global warming, Mayor James “Bong” Gordon Jr. is encouraging the youth of the city’s 17 barangays to participate in this environmental endeavor.
YNEA aims to build a network of responsible young leaders who will VOICE-OUT the concerns of the YOUTH in general. The main objective is to educate the youth about their responsibility to protect the environment, build a strong foundation of young concerned citizens and eventually inspire and push the older populace to act on important environmental concerns
A youth organization founded to unite the youth sector and the young populace to endeavor to protect our environment. The group; which is primarily spearheaded by the Green Badge Circle (GBC) and its Auxiliary group (GBC-A), the Eagle Scout Association of the Philippines-Olongapo Council and the Local Scouting movement in Olongapo and Zambales; is an open youth organization, a non-profit, non-stock, non-political and non-sectarian organization having LOVE FOR ENVIRONMENT as the main requirement for membership.
