UP orgs to hold benefit concert

IN celebration of October as Children’s Month, students from the University of the Philippines Cebu College will be hosting Tukar, a concert for a cause this Friday, Oct. 21, at the Outpost Restobar in Nivel Hills, Lahug.

The concert is organized by the UP Cebu branch of Tsinelas Association Inc., in cooperation with the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) – Zeta Omega chapter for the benefit of the Child Protect Movement.

The movement was recently launched by the Children’s Legal Bureau Inc. in response to the growing number of incidents related to technology-based crimes against children.

“With the different issues concerning children nowadays, we as youth would like to do something,” said Joni Mejico, a third year mass communication major and president of UP Tsinelas.

Local bands that will perform at the event are Missing Filemon, Rescue a Hero, Sefyla, Doorknob, Ala Akbar, DOC, All of a Sudden and Midnight Summer. The concert will start at 9 p.m.

Tsinelas is a non-government, non-profit organization that gives educational assistance to poor children and their teachers in depressed areas of Cebu, particularly in the mountain barangays.

It aims to help the students stay in school and improve the overall quality of their education. It has branches in various Cebu schools.

CLB is likewise a non-government, non-profit organization whose objective is to “empower communities to provide a just world for children through developmental legal aid, trainings and advocacy.” /UP Cebu Masscom student Jose Antonio C. Ferreros