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March 2022 Newsletter

EA Philippines has a big announcement to share in this newsletter edition so make sure you read on and sign up for our event on Saturday! 

We also have updates from our local EA chapters and an organization spotlight. As usual, some EA-related resources and job opportunities are also included!

Updates from the local EA community

EA Philippines

We’re excited to announce that EA Philippines’ grant application for the EA Infrastructure Fund was accepted last Feb. 19! This will fund 2.32 FTE (full-time equivalent) of salary for 12 months, with it being split in this way across five of us:

1. Elmerei Cuevas at 1 FTE (40 hrs/week) as our new Executive Director

2. Red Bermejo at 0.5 FTE (20 hrs/week) as our new Associate Director 

3. Brian Tan at 0.5 FTE as Associate Director

4. Janai Baril at 0.25 FTE (10 hrs/week) as our Communications and Events Associate

5. Tanya Quijano at 0.15 FTE (6 hrs/week) as our Health and Development Community Builder

We couldn’t have achieved this without your help, so we want to thank each of you! Our work here is only just beginning, though. We aim to use this grant in an impactful way and further improve and grow the EA community here in the country. 

To know more about the details of our grant application and our plans moving forward, we invite you to attend EA Philippines’ Town Hall on March 12, 8:00 - 9:15 pm. You can sign up here. Hope to see you there!

EA UP Diliman

EA UPD has a lot in store for the UPD community this March! 

The student chapter held its first-ever application orientation on March 4, 5-7 PM. EA UPD’s application process is open to all UP system students. If you want to learn more about EA UPD and its Utak at Puso Fellowship, check out the recording of their orientation here. 

Learn more about EA UPD and their application process here. If you are interested, you can sign up to join them here!

This March, EA UPD will also be opening admissions to two virtual programs! 

Admissions for the EA UPD Padayon Career Planning Program have started last February 28 and will run until March 11, 2022. The program is open to all UP students who are a graduate of any Introductory Fellowship program (EA Blue, EA UPD, EA Taft or EA PH). Invitations for the program will be done through email so if you are interested, you may email the team at: padayoncpp.eaupd@gmail.com.

The applications for the third cycle of the Utak at Puso Fellowship will open from March 6 to March 27, 2022. Stay tuned to their Facebook page for more announcements and how to register.
 

EA Blue

EA Blue is running the fourth cycle of its EA Introductory Fellowship! 

This fellowship is a chance for participants to explore ideas such as choosing a high-impact cause area, thinking more rationally, evaluating different interventions, planning for an impactful career, and many more. Be part of this 8-week long discussion where you can meet like-minded individuals and turn that passion into effective action!

This program is open to all 11th and 12th grade high schoolers, current college students, and professionals who graduated from 2019-2022! You can check out their primer here. Application is until March 8!

Foreign EA-relevant Resources

Applications to Charity Entrepreneurship’s fully cost-covered Incubation Programs are now open. This year’s program will focus on starting charities in road traffic safety, aid quality advocacy, tobacco taxation, postpartum family planning, and exploratory altruism. The deadline to apply is on March 31!

Check out this post from Stephen Clare on how likely World War III is. This post considered how likely any Great Power war is considering the base rate of international conflict. It also discussed the likelihood that such a conflict, should it occur, would escalate massively.

Want to help farmed animals without going vegan?

Even if we want to see a cruelty-free world, going fully vegan is sometimes difficult to achieve. Find out how you can tremendously help farmed animals through your diet, donations, and career/time. Note that going vegan is the best way to cause the least animal suffering through your diet. However, If you’re not ready to make the step towards full veganism yet, you can start by following the advice in this video made by Jeroen Willems from A Happier World and Jack Hancock from Humane Hancock. If you’re already vegan, this video contains some useful tips too!

Projects on longtermist biosecurity

Andrew Snyder-Beattie and Ethan Alley posted this list of longtermist biosecurity projects on the EA Forum.  Most of the projects could potentially reduce catastrophic biorisk by more than 1% or so on the current margin. Check out this list here.

News relevant to the Philippines

As we enter the election campaign season, Filipinos need more details and clarity on the climate and environmental platforms of our candidates. Thankfully, all aspirants have recognized the urgency of addressing the climate crisis. Find out where else our presidentiables and vice-presidentiables stand on green crisis.

Organization Spotlight: Pure Earth

At present, the Philippines lacks actual data on lead levels in children’s blood, and PureEarth was able to lobby the inclusion of BLL in the NNS and will support its roll-out. The baseline BLL results for children in the Philippines will serve as a basis for ways forward to address lead poisoning in children at the policy and program level. 

They are also working on a pilot to include BLL as a service component of screening patients at the Philippine General Hospital. This is envisioned to be the basis for pursuing national efforts to establish a lead monitoring and surveillance system in the Philippines to allow early intervention before significant adverse health effects develop. 

PureEarth accepts volunteers who can help raise awareness on lead exposure sources, environmental and health impacts, and how people can protect themselves from such by developing information, education and communication (IEC) materials, being a champion in their own organizations and communities, launching awareness campaigns via social media or other platforms. 

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