Your future is uncertain. You live in an era where everything has a price and everything is about money. You live in desperate times where the unemployment rate has risen to13.9% or around four million Filipinos amidst the thousands of graduates annually. You live in a society that breeds corruption, apathy and greed despite well-phrased and pleasant-sounding promises of a good life. Worse, this system gives you false hopes. Accessible, relevant and quality education, a stable job after graduation, a wage enough to sustain a family of six. In short, a better life than the one you lead right now. Yet despite bleak and uncertainty, you have developed your own ideals. You dream of a life of ease, being able to afford everything you need and anything your heart desires. You also dream of being able to practice what you learned in school…and getting good money for it. So, now you may wonder, what is the point of all these? The point is this: there is nothing in this system for you, or anyone else for that matter. So this is a choice between actively participating in changing the system or dying in apathy and in want.That is the very reason why an organization like KAMPI exists. With the aim of changing this system into a society where the majority is empowered in all spheres of life and where one could enjoy the fruits of his labor, KAMPI has assembled the children of workers to become a supplemental force for social change. To date, KAMPI has established its presence in the following schools: Ö University of the Philippines (Diliman and Manila) Ö Technological University of the Philippines (Manila and Bacolod) Ö Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Ö Siliman University Ö Philippine Christian University-Manila Ö Far Eastern University-Recto Ö Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay Ö Polytechnic University of the Philippines -Sta. Mesa Ö Technological Institute of the Philippines -Manila Ö Tomas Claudio Memorial College Ö Trinity College of Quezon City Ö Philippine Normal University-Manila Ö AMA Computer Colleges Ö Rizal Technological University (Boni, Pasig and Antipolo) Ö Philippine School of Business Administration and other higher educational institutions and strategic communities in the National Capital Region, Luzon and the Visayas. In response to burning issues, KAMPI launched a series of mass actions in its maiden year. They participated in the following campaigns: Living Wage; First Labor Offensive; Globalization; Charter Change; Cronyism; Curtailment of Press Freedom; Oil Price Hike; Child Labor; Tuition Increase; Labor Day; State of the Nation Address; Bonifacio Day; International Human Rights Day; and, International Women’s Day. KAMPI was also instrumental in the formation of the Alliance against Tuition Increases and Deregulation together with the National Federation of Student Councils (NFSC) and Sanlakas Youth. Adding a new face to its social character are KAMPI’s socio-civic activities which were: relief operations for the victims of the Mayon Volcano eruption & the Payatas garbage-slide tragedy; socially relevant concerts; job fairs; Lend-a-Book program; and, other pertinent socio-civic activities that are part of the organization’s immediate reply to present and pressing predicaments of the Filipino people.
