Three young and energetic members of the PSA SOCCSKSARGEN participated in the SPSS Version 16 Training held at the ACRE Training Center in Pasong Tamo Street, Makati City on August 19-21, 2008.
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A member of the PSA SOCCSKSARGEN Inc. has attended the 2008 high-level meeting on AIDS that took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York last 10 - 11 June.
Engr. Adela Fiesta from Cotabato City attended this high-level meeting whose intention was to review the progress made in implementing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
The president of Sarangani Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Mr. Alfredo Bronx Hebrona) has provided the PSA officers with a good lesson in basic financial literacy as well as an introduction of the Cashflow 101.
Cashflow 101 is a didactic game designed by investor, businessman, and self-help author Robert Kiyosaki to serve as a tool for learning basic financial strategies and accounting principles. Cashflow 101 is the first of several games created by Kiyosaki to reinforce the information in his books.
The board has two tracks: A "Rat Race" small circle where you only roll one die to advance, and a "Fast Track" where you roll two dice to advance. In the Rat Race you get paid for passing your Paycheck space, and then draw from one of four decks of cards depending on which space you've landed. Some of the deals are good, others are bad. Your main problem here is a shortage of cash. In the Fast Track your main problem is an excess of cash and finding investments to sink it into before you lose it to lawsuits, divorce or tax audits.
The heart of the game though are the player sheets where players learn how to fill out a financial statement. Players choose from a variety of starting careers (Truck Driver, Mechanic, Lawyer, Airline Pilot, etc.) and fill out their financial sheets appropriately. As they land cards and invest in different deals they dutifully log each change to their financial sheets as well. After a few games most people end up using the same financial sheets to fill out their own personal information. For us, we chose the nursing career.
With each card event the drawing player may buy at that price, but all players may sell at that price. Also, players may make co-investments with the drawing player or even buy the deal from him if they agree. Player deals are encouraged.
The game with few players is heavily biased towards real estate. With 5-6 players the cards are being drawn fast enough that the part time businesses pay off as well.
Later in the game, the vice-president of Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry and concurrent president of Sultan Kudarat Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Elena Haw joined us as it was her first time to play the 101 game.
Truly, it was a good experience.
The Association and the local group of social workers through the GENSARWAI Foundation have forged a joint partnership to implement the 1st National Conference on Social Planning, Evaluation and Statistics on 3-5 October 2008 in General Santos City.
No less than Hermocilos Batilong, MSW, MAEd representing the Foundation and Ellen Dalagan, MM representing the PSA signed the memorandum of agreement last April 11, 2008.
Highlights of the signed agreement are the following:
