The year gone by was a singularly difficult year of transition. PRRM went through two major changeovers—at the executive and at the board level—while the world was shaking from an unprecedented global crisis that affected our nation, our local communities, our Movement.

We saw through these trying and troubled times and emerged stronger than we had imagined. Now, we look forward to another three years (2010-2012) of stabilization and further strengthening of our Movement.

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(Copenhagen, 20 December 2009). It started on high hopes and ended up heartbroken. The outcome of the Copenhagen event that drew the participation of more people than any seen in previous UN summits indeed broke the hearts of millions.

People around the world expected their leaders to help avert climate catastrophe. Which means coming out with nothing less than strong, bold, and legally-binding agreements to stabilize the global climate system.

But the Copenhagen climate conference (UNFCCC COP 15) might be remembered more as a rare summit of failure than Obama’s claim of a ‘step forward’. A rare gathering of 192 heads of states, and for what?

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To usher in the year 2010, PRRM hosted a three-day visit of two colleagues from the rural reconstruction family in the Asian region. Dr. Lau Kin Chi of the Chinese rural reconstruction and a professor at the Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and Dr. Arjun Karki, President of the Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), were in the Philippines last January 4-6, 2010 for a series of meetings with the PRRM Board of Trustees and officers.

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Setting-up an ecological solid waste management system in GK Culiat

Since mid-2009, PRRM has been helping a Gawad Kalinga village in Culiat, Quezon City set up an ecological solid waste management (ESWM) system in the community. PRRM provided several trainings in partnership with GK-Green Kalinga on ESWM and will continue to monitor its implementation this year.

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Nine students from the University of the Philippines Los Banos have been assigned to PRRM branches in Cavite and Nueva Vizcaya under the UPLB Supervised Field Experience Program. The students are currently taking Human Ecology major in Social Technology, and will be interned in PRRM from January 20 to March 31 this year.

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