| johnpiermont |
|
| Imeverybodysfellow |
|
 About Me |
About the Founder
John Piermont V. Montilla is a wanderer and adventurer, he is a one-man-army, distrustful, and somewhat paranoid, he is a loner, peer-diagnosed to be manic depressive and often called "weirdo" but all of these he doesn't care because in the eyes of people he worked with, and the significant others who have been instrumental in his survival and those who knew him well, he is friendly, sensitive, and a heart that welcomes any one. He always does whatever it takes to survive but fearful and wise not to fail his faith. He is fearless in the fight for Humanity's entitlements due from God and is weakened when he hears the cries and lamentations of the oppressed and the abused. At first, he did not understand why he is so well determined to pursue his childhood dreams alone and to work relentlessly in service to humanity. He later discovered that he was a survivor of abortion-attempt and he believed that during that attempt, he took hold with his strongest grip not to be killed (since God has a purpose), consequently he lived in punishment and exploitation this explained his agonizing life and precisely the reason why he survived every battle in his life. A battle which is he believe a fierce struggle between he and himself and not between he and others, a courage in accepting the past, transcending the pains, forgiving and forgetting and most of all suppressing the vicious cycle of inner hatred, envy, revenge, anger which nurture violence - a search for peace with his conviction that is start from the Peace of the Child-within. Despite being unwanted he is wanted by people who are unwanted. He walks a different path.
He ran away home at age 15, he lived with street children in the City for quite some time and find it just like his house but preferred the streets. His aunt offered him to study a maritime course where he immediately took the opportunity. He studied for one year and worked immediately at a local coastwise shipping company, because he is under aged at that time he faked his birth certificate. After 6 months at the sea, his contract ended and the ship docked at a neighbouring City next Island, he disembarked alone without anybody. He lived in a slum area similar to his previous dwelling place with kids with exploited kids for quite some time. He tried searching for a job and cheaper school for his college studies; he found a job and later studied at the West Visayas State University. He pursued his childhood dream "to become a scientist" he took the BS in Biological Science sponsored by the DSWD educational assistance for one year and the Commission on Filipino Overseas adopt-a-scholar program. To augment his daily needs such as food and clothing, he worked as student assistant at the University's Hometel and find a great deal working as part time at McDonalds. He lives in the School under Mrs. Teresa Suarez his guardian. He finished his Bachelor's degree for 5 long years and because of his experience working with prostituted children, he received a two Ford Foundation Grant, at the University of San Carlos Cebu on April 2000.
He represented the Philippines as a delegate on the World Youth Peace Summit Asia-Pacific in Bangkok Thailand and has been invited as international keynote speaker on inner peace and youth lecturer on youth and environment at the World Youth Peace Summit Japan Conference and the 2005 Aichi World Exposition in Japan respectively. He is also scholar of the Japan International Cooperation Agency on the Youth Invitation Program ASEAN Component last May-June 2004. Just recently he received the prestigious YouthActionNet Award from the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Nokia where he was designated as one of the youthactionnet ambassadors of the IYF
During his college years, though he found himself succeeding his goals, he felt unhappy and vain because he had left his little 'brothers' and 'sisters' on the streets. He organized two organizations, on May 1999, the community-based Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (Peers for a Positive Way of Life) which is an association of child advocates and children and youth who rise above abuse, exploitation and violence, and on June 2002, the Academic-based KGPP-CARE for ChYPs Organization. On April 2003, four years later, the KGPP made it as one of the National Awardee to the 1st National Search for Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) of the Philippines organized by the Office of the President National Youth Commission for its work with prostituted boys and girls in the streets and in depressed communities in the City.
KGPP is selected recently as the national focal point of the Global Youth Network of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Asia Pacific Region under the Auspices of Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa of Indonesia
Pierre is active in community organizing, research and social services especially in depressed and remote localities in their region, their organization regularly conduct seminars, capability building, training, discussions and forums for children and youth concerning the Convention on the Rights of the Child, sexuality and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS IEC, gender sensitivity and play therapy and on top of this he does not forget values formation and spirituality enrichment as the fiber of his work with the youth and the Filipino Family. The organization promotes children and young people's participation on issues of concerns that affect their well-being and advances the peer-to-peer approach in youth development.
The immediate goal of the organization is to provide protective behaviour through life skills and choices for children in exploitative child labour especially those in prostitution, drug trafficking and other worst form of child labour. The long-term goal on the other hand is removing children in exploitative environments by providing children and youth particularly those who transcended abuse and violence an avenue for healing and transformation and to build sustained culture of friendship, understanding, brethrenhood, and global citizenry.
At present, John Piermont V. Montilla is the president of the Rotaract Club of Central Iloilo, a youth development leader of the Iloilo City Social Welfare and Development Office, and a part-time researcher of the West Visayas State University Gender and Development Office. His international affiliations at present are with the JICA, World Youth Peace Summit and the Global Youth Network of the UNODC.
He and his organization works to build bridges between those who needs help and those who wants to help and build bridges between adversities and opportunities for every children who has lost their direction towards achieving their own aspirations in life.
| Countries Visited |
This map requires Flash Player 8 or higher.
Click here to get the latest Flash Player.
 Issues of Interest |
 UNESCO Sites Visited |
|
 |
Industries |
 Organizations Supported |
 Events |
|
|
|
 |
|
User is Offline.
|
| User Joined: July 9, 2003 |
| Last Login: May 16, 2008
|
 Active Rank: #697 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
Does johnpiermont inspire you?
Login or Signup to let them know! |
|
|
 Imeverybodysfellow's Content |
 Project Involvement |
 Group Memberships |
|
Login 
Recently Posted
