Sep 22 2007
Heritage Conservation Society member
It’s official I’m now a member of the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) - Iloilo Youth Chapter. It came about during Ivan Henares‘ recent trip to Iloilo. There we’re no formal induction, were still in the process of organizing ourselves into how we want to shape the group.
Other members include: Gian Carlo Alvarez (Chairman) of Central Philippine University, Bernard Arellano of UP Visayas and me of the West Visayas State University.
I guess we were chosen to be members of the local arm of the HCS because we were already involved in the promotion of the heritage of Iloilo in the internet through numerous websites and forums. We’ve made a name for ourselves in this focused niche.
During the infancy of the Iloilo Youth Chapter, we would like to start first with the promotion of Iloilo’s heritage sites. We would like to raise the awareness of what we currently have because many of our heritage gets destroyed because people generally don’t care about them. I believe that if people learn more about our heritage then people will start knowing how important they are and therefore would be more resistant to any plans to destroy them.
Thus we’re starting a blog for this very purpose:
Explore the old world charm and the rich cultural heritage of the city and the province of Iloilo and Guimaras by visiting “Panubli-on: The Iloilo Heritage Blog”
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