Three Filipino students from prestigious Philippine law schools topped a contest commissioned by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
The DFA said the three students who bested hundreds of contestants from other countries were:
The DFA said the three students who bested hundreds of contestants from other countries were:
- Alfonso Orioste, Jr. of San Beda College
- Janeca Naboya of Lyceum of the Philippines, and
- Gian Carlo Miranda, Ateneo de Manila University.
The three students received their prize during the ILO's "Youth Employment Forum" in Geneva on May 23 to 25, DFA said.
The ILO video contest with the theme “Decent Work for Youth,” was launched in March.
The ILO invited youths, from ages 18 to 29, to present videos depicting how the global job crisis was affecting their lives.
The ILO invited youths, from ages 18 to 29, to present videos depicting how the global job crisis was affecting their lives.
The Pinoy group’s winning video — entitled “Listen to my Story” — featured the plight of a fresh education graduate Janet, who was forced to work as a domestic worker in the Middle East to support her family.
In an email to GMA News Online, Miranda said on Wednesday that they chose migration as their topic "because we felt that the issue in the Philippines is not just confined merely to unemployment. It also involves underemployment and job mismatch."
“We wanted to show the world the other side of the story, the side that rarely ever gets listened to…. Also, we felt that migration is an issue that is our fellow Filipinos could easily relate to,” he added.
Miranda said that with over 300 videos submitted from different countries, they were not expecting to win the contest.
“We feel so proud that we were able to win this competition. It makes us feel empowered in the sense that we are able to share the plight of our fellow Filipinos to the rest of the world and hopefully, find some concrete solutions,” he added.
“The greatest challenge for us was ensuring that we were able to do justice to the situation that we were trying to portray. We really wanted to make sure that we could capture the migration issue and show it in a way that would really affect our audiences,” he explained.
“Through this achievement, we really hope to inspire Filipino youth everywhere. We want to inspire them to keep trying to realize their dreams… [Dreams] can turn into concrete, achievable plans that can one day truly make a difference,” Miranda said. - VVP, GMA News
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