Paraiso Verde Resort and Water Park: Mindanao’s Largest Wave Pool Is In Koronadal City
2 comments Posted by Aethen at 13:16I am a very beach or outdoorsy person, but there’s one thing that excites me, a world-class tourist destination in my beloved hometown in Mindanao. Paraiso Verde Resort and Water Park has been teasing the public with the promise of a world-class resort and water park that will be the biggest in Mindanao and one of the best in the world.
Paraiso Verde boasts of four exciting water attractions:
- Moby Wave Pool, the largest wave pool in Mindanao that features a giant water bucket;
- Adventura River Rapids which will take you on an adrenaline filled watery ride;
- Wiggles Kiddie Pool for your little ones; and
- Freestyle Swim Pool for no-frills swimming for fitness and recreation purposes.
Sounds absolutely fun, right? Paraiso Verde spells pure fun for everyone.
Paraiso Verde is now open to the public and is having regular events every week. This is one of the best barkada / family get-away for a big fun in Mindanao!
My personal favorite among the water attractions is the wave pool that boasts of a typhoon-like experience called the diamond spin. Though the deepest depth is only 4 feet — the swell goes as high as 10 feet. And with crystal clear fresh water — you’ll definitely have the time of your life!
Paraiso Verde Resort and Water Park is located at Zone 1, General Paulino Santos Drive, Koronadal City, South Cotabato. For more information, contact them at + 6383-520-1338. You may also visit their website at http://www.paraisoverresortandwaterpark.com, email them at paraisoverderesort@yahoo.com, connect with them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ParaisoVerde, or follow them on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/PVerdeResort.

As early as September, Christmas is already in the air here in the Philippines. Christmas is the longest season that we Filipinos are celebrating. And in the spirit of this season, the heart of giving is always overwhelming.
Labels: advocacy, christmas party, personal
Can you imagine life without farmers? A team of scholars from the Young Minds Academy (YMA) Season 5 leadership program can’t. They harnessed the power of marketing strategies mostly through the new media to promote a farmer empowerment project in Consolacion, Cebu. Because of the on-going training that the farmers are undergoing, they will soon yield better and abundant harvests in their respective farms all over Cebu.
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| The online community has been abuzz with the iluvfarmers farmers campaign that champions hero farmers in Cebu. |
About KabalikatsaKabuhayan
Team CPMPC of the YMA program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. created a campaign for the “KabalikatsaKabuhayan.” The project aims to educate farmers in vegetable and fruit production and innovations as part of the poverty alleviation goals of the Municipality of Consolacion.
Around 120 farmers go to the 5,000 square meter demo farm site in Brgy. Danglag to learn from the trainers from Harbest Agribusiness Corporation and the Department of Agriculture Regional Offices.The program’s aim is to empower our farmers with knowledge to improve farm practice and increase yield, thereby providing better income opportunities.
The project started last September 11 and is set to end on November 18, 2011. This has been done in 18 other project sites all over the country as well, and as of writing, graduated more than two thousand farmers.
About iluvfarmers
The Team CPMPC scholars of YMA drafted and implemented a massive campaign to help these farmers gain social awareness and support from the public with the parameters set by RAFI which is 1,000 likes on the Facebook page and 10,000 peso donation or signature of commitment within a one month period.
But instead of focusing on achieving the goals, they turned to the notion that the quality of interaction and support they get is more important especially within the deadline.
As part of the marketing strategy, they branded their campaign as “iluvfarmers” to imply the need for people to appreciate our farmers who are considered as unsung heroes. Meticulous planning and execution was done from designing the logo, content creation and development, setting of specific goals, art direction of campaign materials such as online posters, advertisements, teasers, blog posts, endorsements from different personalities and regular updates in the social networking sites. They also went to the farm demo site and worked with the farmers themselves under extreme weather conditions and poor classroom setting.
The scholars themselves underwent input sessions with social marketing experts in the region today.
They created a Facebook page with a custom designed landing page which can be accessed at http://fb.me/iluvfarmers where details of the program and how you can support the campaign and the farmers are placed. They also created a Twitter account http://twitter.com/iluvfarmers where conversations and interactions are done not only with netizens but as well as Agriculture and Farming organizations all over the world. To curate the beautiful life stories of the farmers and to regularly update the supporters with the latest developments of the project, Team CPMPC scholars also had created a blog site http://iluvfarmers.blogspot.com for better content and brand establishment.
The iluvfarmers Campaign is being spearheaded by Jaysee John R. Pingkian, LorbeCatadman, Babykit Marie Nunez, Irish Nunez and John RhecelSolon members of the Team CPMPC of the YMA Season 5.
Farming is not as fun as you would experience through games like Farmville. It actually takes a lot of effort and life as we know it and some people have not only considered it as livelihood but life in itself.
The project needs to sustain because they have learned to pursue a reliable source of income with very little capital through the technologies and knowledge imparted to them.
They need not only awareness from people but as well as donations in money or in kind such as farming tools and fertilizers, vegetable and fruit seeds and seedlings because after the training they are expected to apply their knowledge unto their respective farm lands.
Keep in mind that they are also the providers of their families.
They also need social awareness because little attention and support is given to these people whose efforts are barely recognized and compensated for the amount of work they are doing.
How can you help?
4 Steps to Help Them!
- LIKE and SHARE this page! COMMENT on photos and posts as well!
- DONATE your Facebook or Twitter Status:
- They work hard to provide us food. We can help them do better. FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers
- Somewhere in the mountains are heroes who work tirelessly to provide us and their families. FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers
- Facebook is not just for emo stuff. It could also be used to support our hero farmers! FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers
- Or you could CREATE YOUR CREATIVE STATUS and post it on the Facebook page so they could feature you!
- FOLLOW us on Twitter http://twitter.com/iluvfarmers
- DONATE or ask people to donate money, farm tools, farm supplies, seedlings or seeds.
- Contact iluvfarmers Campaign Ambassador LorbeCatadman: 09299613737
Labels: advocacy, nation building, personal
by:
IAN CHRISTOPHER BERMUDO ALFONSO
Resident Researcher, History and Culture
The Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies
Batang Bayani would like to think and celebrate that the project is really all about inspiring people; to start their own cause no matter how small it is.
Come celebrate and inspire with Batang Bayani!
For inquiries on the birthday project, please contact Batang Bayani. Or if you want to know about how to help, click here.
Labels: advocacy, nation building, personal
Sharing with you a letter below written by a fellow paddler for the President to Save the Philippine Dragon boat sport. I hope to help the federation by spreading and making this issue reach media's attention.
Dear Mr. President,
We would like to seek help from your office to give immediate attention and guidance to the current situation of the dragon boat sport in this country.
The Filipino dragon boat paddlers under the supervision of the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation or PDBF brought home numerous international awards in this sport, defending WORLD CHAMPIONS and WORLD RECORD HOLDER to name a few, yet the Philippine Sports Commission under the leadership of SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU do not recognize the federation, stripped down all its rights as member of NSA without due process, and created a separate dragon boat national team under the the Philippine Canoe Kayak Federation or PCKF.
Current statistics show that PCKF has around 40-50 members only compared to PDBFs more than a thousand members. PDBF is the ONLY RECOGNIZED dragon boat association in the Philippines by the International Dragon Boat Federation or IDBF. From the latest letter of IDBF President to PDBF, only paddlers recognized by or members of PDBF will be allowed to race in local, regional, continental, and world dragon boat competitions for as long as it is governed or supervised by IDBF.
By stripping down the rights of PDBF from the NSA, PCKF will take over all of the existing rights and properties of PDBF including government funding to the WORLD CHAMPIONS.
And at the end of this month, PCKF will get ALL the dragon boats parked at Manila Bay and will make PDBF dragon boat paddlers unable to train for the upcoming competitions this September in Florida-USA for the World Championships and SAVA Sprints Singapore wherein FILIPINOS ARE THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS.
As a paddler, a public relations practitioner, and as a Filipino, I am asking for your utmost consideration to look at the current situation of the sport where we excel, and help save Philippine dragon boat from doom.
We are willing to discuss this matter and present pieces of evidence to you for further reference.
Respectfully yours,
Curt Urbanozo
Labels: nation building, personal, Sports
It was tatay's 52nd birthday yesterday. Last day also was the first time I greeted him heart-fully and spoken to him the words, I love you and thank you but was not emotional. Yes, I have never been that expressive and open to him since the end of his dictatorship – last year, I received self-declared freedom and signed a mutual treaty with him that both would raise a white flag and surrender our armaments.
It was an absolute relief having revived the healthy relationship with him but I am also missing the silent and strategic battle we fought against each other. Funny but that was how we dealt with each other over the past years. He had almost always opposed my ideas and my philosophies never ceased to contrast with his. We seldom meet in the center and agree for one thing –save, maybe food preference.
Now that I am far from home, I am starting to miss our wordless and indirect conversation, testing each other to submit and surrender. This is the exciting part in playing with my tatay's game of schemes and tactics. He had been trying to make me give up, but it was a futile attempt for I am as strong and stubborn as him that I would hardly be defeated. In fact when I was in my third year in college, we have never talked to each other for almost two years even though both of us were staying in the same roof, eating in the same table, and seeing each other every day. When one needs something to other (vice versa), it has to be channeled through nanay, my mother, the mediator. When I need allowance, I run to nanay and she'll get it to father. And when my tatay needs to address or preach things on me, he would get drunk with his friends and before he gets to sleeps, he would start his lectures and sentiments while I just sleep and let every word go in and out of my ears.
Yeah, I know I am bad and so he is. But hey, never mistake that this is deep-in-the-heart war between us. Perhaps maybe this is just our way of expressing and showing how we love each other. My tatay had has all my respect though we deal with each other this way. Possibly he is just overdoing his being a bank manager at home and I am just practicing being an authoritative leader to him which is the-not-me in school. The combination in home that will never work for peace if both continue to be those characters.
If not because of him, I might not be what and where I am now. But don't be mistaken I did not surrender yet and I just lowered my guards. We just became more friends.
So he is the king, and I will take what he has given me and grow with it. I am acknowledging his importance, is a fact I must surrender to.
Now, I understand our relationship with our fathers will inevitably be vital in shaping our characters, much more our life. Many of us may have pains and resentments in this kind of relationship and we may have wanted more than what they gave us, or longed for praises, or have the assurance that we measured up with their expectations; we might come in conflict with them and their ideals, but they do not necessarily want to dictate or impose over our lives. They just want us to be the kings of our life.
Well, I am changing this relationship not by asking him to be different but by being mature and responsible. This became a new doorway of me for I know that soon I'll be a father of a child/ren whom I'll be nurturing, loving, and caring.
Happy Birthday, tay.












