Cordilleran Youth Center Inc.
Who are we:
# A non-profit, non-stock, non-government organization that is committed to helping arouse, organize and mobilize the youth and students in advancing the interests and welfare of the indigenous peoples of the Cordillera.
# CYC provides services to various indigenous and non-indigenous youth and students# organizations. It also coordinates various activities spearheaded by CYC partner organizations.

What are our programs:
# Education, training, animation, and tutorial
Preparation, dissemination, and discussion of popular education materials on IP rights, youth and students rights, and other issues.
# Organizing and networking
Helps in the formation and consolidation of community-based and school-based organizations. Develops and strengthens links and cooperation among youth in the country and abroad.
# Campaigns and advocacy
Launches and participates in systematic and sustained activities towards the recognition of rights of indigenous peoples and that of the youth and students in particular.
# Culture, heritage and development
Launches and encourages youth participation in activities that seek to strengthen, and develop indigenous social, cultural institutions and practices and enhance cross-cultural learning.
# Socio-economic and disaster risk reduction and management
This is implemented through education and mobilizing the indigenous youth to uphold their role as protectors of their resources and communities

Project Title: Timek ti Umili (Voice of the People): Advancing Peoples’ Welfare Through Social Media and Arts Applicant CordilleranYouth Center Inc.

This project intends to empower cultural workers, particularly the indigenous youth of the Cordillera region to amplify their voices on issues that affect them and become vigilant to participate on decision-making to matters affecting, including the upcoming 2022 election. It will maximize the power of arts as a weapon in projecting collective voices to influence wider members of the community to act against discrimination and injustices. Activities will include educational discussions on indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, and the role of arts and culture for social transformation. Awareness and appreciation of socio-political realities will lead to decisive actions. Training workshops on song composition, visual arts, theatre arts, and multi-media art production to enhance skills in producing effective works that can awaken the minds and hearts of viewers will follow. Target outputs include a human rights music album which will be produced in collaboration with various groups or individual musicians. A theater play that relates the struggle of artists, indigenous youth will also be performed. Murals and effigies will be mounted during theInternational HumanRights Day and People’s Cordillera Day. Finally, a brief documentary film to share highlights from this project and presented milestones as a cultural alliance for 30 years will be produced. Cultural workers, especially the indigenous youth who produced relevant and powerful artworks will multiply as their messages resonate and influence viewers. By showcasing these, the audience will later be motivated and supported to stand and act according to what is just and right. Further, consolidation activities will be organized to keep DKK and CYC firm amidst the impact of the pandemic and this worsening political repression. Collaboration with different organizations and other VOICE project recipients will surely expand networks for proactive actions among the different rights-holders and project implementers.