Updates with The Crew

Thank you to the members of the Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP) for participating in our tentatively titled "Filipino American Activism Community Forum" last Sunday!

My personal message:
It was a lot of fun and it brought my energy level up being with you guys. Keep on doing what you guys are doing one student at a time. With your genuine vision, you guys are moving mountains and shaping the lives of young adults.

To give a preview of what it was like, I'm going to cut and paste part of the outline that Ed Dawg diligently composed:

COMMUNITY PROFILE: Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP)

In San Diego County, Filipino Americans (also known as FilAms) comprise a significant portion of the total population (close to 10% across the board). Furthermore, the FilAms in San Diego, particularly youth and young adults, are fast becoming active and assuming the roles of “change agents” of their respective communities, particularly in the midst of social and political change in the FilAm community as well as the greater portion of San Diego County.

How this may result will be reliant on how Fil-Ams in San Diego “come of age” as a social group and how this diverse group shape their own direction in the future.

As a start and for a pending event in April, The Backroom Podcast will be profiling and interviewing one of the active community groups composed and driven by FilAm youth and young adults in San Diego.

Known as “KAMP”, short for “Kuya Ate Mentorship Program”, this program strives to “foster youth leadership skills, encourage young minds to seek and critically understand” the FilAm Community “from social and global standpoints” and to a certain degree foster the relatively nascent sense of community awareness and activism.

This is something that myself and The Crew have been working on lately. This is our baby that we plan to nurture for the next few months.

Stay tuned for more updates. Please visit our site at www.ftstechnology.com/backroom. KAMP episode will be posted up soon.