High hopes from two ‘Youngblood’

This 90-year-old “High Blood” would like to commend two recent “Youngblood” contributors and offer them my congratulations for voicing their views on crucial matters affecting them and their generation.

Diana Josefa O. San Jose, who is only 25, is a staff member of Anthropology Watch, an NGO concerned with indigenous peoples in ancestral domains. She wrote about a “Wonderful world and beautiful people.”

The other is Sofia Benares who is only 17, and a senior at the International School-Manila, who wrote that “Education is the key.”

Both, at their age, represent our youth today. If replicated all over our wonderful world in this country, we should have high hopes and not despair about the future of the state of our natural and social environment.

And, very true is what the anthropologist Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”

Diana and Sofia may be “small voices in the wilderness” but with people like them, who belong to NGOs, committed to saving the Earth for future generations and to leaving it better than when they found it, even with small efforts and in small ways, will make a big difference.

Let us then pledge to contribute to the project launched called “1 thing.”

—ELON SISON, elon.sison@gmail.com