I love this plan by the Philippine Sports Commission(PSC) to hold the Indigenous Peoples’ Games in August in Bukidnon.
Holding traditional games is one way of keeping the native games alive and unifying the different tribes.
The IP Games may not be popular as of this time and if the PSC sustains this project and make it a program, this will be attractive to corporate sponsors.
I’m thinking long-term on this project because as SAP Secretary Bong Go said they will be only up to 2022 in Malacanang and go home to Davao.
Once Mayor/PRRD comes home, the PSC Board of Commissioners naturally will be replaced by the new president.
So, who will continue the IP Games? Sigurado, wala na!
Either the project will fall into the hands of the Sports for Peace Mindanao, a non-government organization formed by PSC chairman William “Butch” Ramirez whose Executive Director is my dear journalism professor Eduardo “Edfer” Fernandez or it will just go pffft.
You see guys, this is an awesome project if sustained and you understand by now that once your term is up, most of the projects that you started just simply cannot be automatically supported by the next administration, unless there is a provision in the law, that created the PSC, mandating that the IP Games be supported, just like members of the board of commissioners receiving a salary according to the provisions of the law.
Gets ninyo?
Since it is still 2018, the PSC has four years to work on a plan to sustain this awesome project.
The Technical Working Group members for sure are brilliant Filipinos who are thinking long term.
If they don’t, then why organize the IP Games in the first place?
Let us keep this project alive!
