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MDG Painting Contest in Digos City
Posted 14 November 2007

To celebrate the 18^th National Statistics Month the City of Digos through the Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator (OCPDC, Digos City) held an MDG Painting Contest for High School students on October 23, 2007 in Digos City. Four public secondary schools and one private secondary school sent participants to the contest. Thirty students tested their talents in painting in this contest and 3 emerged as winners and a consolation prize recipient.

The participants came from Digos City National High School, Digos City National High School – Igpit Extension, Kapatagan National High School, Ruparan National High School, Holy Cross Academy of Digos.

The mechanics of the contest were as follow: the participants had to depict in painting the 8 Millennium Development Goals, to wit: Goal 1: Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; Goal 2: Achieving universal primary education; Goal 3: Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women; Goal 4: Reducing child mortality; Goal 5: Improving maternal health; Goal 6: Combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; Goal 7: Ensuring environmental sustainability; Goal 8: Developing a global partnership for development. Then, the participants were asked to internalize the MDGs and draw in pencil and paper what their vision would be of Digos City as well as the Philippines in 2015 in as far as the 8 MDGs are concerned. Ms. Estrella R. Turingan, NSCB11 Regional Head, in her opening remarks said that since the participants’ ages ranged from 13 to 15 years, then, by 2015 then, they will be 21 to 23 years old on the threshold of putting up their own families. They would then be able to have their own visions as to how Digos City and the Philippines would be in 2015 in terms of the MDGs.

From the pencil sketches, these were transformed to paintings on illustration boards provided by the OCPDC, Digos City. All the materials were supplied for free by the OCPDC, Digos City.

The Board of Judges were from the Office of City Mayor, Office of the City Engineer, City Health Office, and Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator.

The declared top three winners: Jan Elmore Ando, first prize, Rigor Amaquin, second prize and Frela Ann del Rosario, third prize were all from Digos City National High School. Consolation prize went to Len May Rivas of Digos City National High School-Extension.  The winners received cash prizes of P3,000, P2,000 and P1,000 for the first, second and third prize, respectively. The recipient of the consolation prize received P500.