Lakambini

The Lakambini Committee is the committee dedicated to promoting and cultivating a culture of gender sensitivity and awareness. Our mission is to perpetuate the value of SOGIE equality and women empowerment, employed through the thrust for youth engagement in pressing social issues and injustice.

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Mission

It is the mission of Lakambini to perpetuate the value of equality amongst genders, employed through the thrust for student engagement in relation to pressing social issues and injustice, and the thrust for women empowerment, in the hopes that it will lead to the benefit of all.

The Sandigan aims to push for an intersectional approach to the movement towards gender equality. Lakambini campaigns for the rights of the people, as women’s issues, gender-based issues and people’s issues are closely intertwined and inseparable.

We aim to develop a community built on the desire to spearhead change in order to progress as a whole, to sustain an environment that strengthens the resolve of individuals to stand for what is right and to value fairness and freedom above all.

Vision

Lakambini envisions the emergence of a new culture wherein the voice of every individual would be heard, a culture wherein no one would be subjected to the predicaments of issues such as gender inequality and apathy regarding such concerns, and a culture wherein each individual can speak up for those who cannot do so for themselves and enliven the values of dignity, self-discipline, mutual respect, and compassion.

The committee adheres faithfully to the Atenean values instilled into each member of the community, carefully and steadfastly lodging each of us into the life of servant-leadership, committing to be a person for others - always in love and service for the community.

Core Values

Gender Sensitivity

One of the main tenets of Lakambini's advocacy is Gender Sensitivity. Lakambini’s fight for Gender Sensitivity seeks to create a greater awareness within the ASHS community of the role of gender in people’s lives and to raise more sensitivity about issues that relate to SOGIE. Lakambini does this through holding Gender Sensitivity Training sessions for student leaders and other prominent figures within the ASHS and consistently releasing informative material to further educate the ASHS.

Inclusivity & Diversity

Lakambini has become a catalyst for change through its many projects as the committee has been able to relentlessly strive to make the Ateneo Senior High School more inclusive with regards to gender based issues. It is also through the committee's presence in ASHS where Lakambini has contributed to cultivating an environment in the school where people can feel safe, represented, and understood, no matter their SOGIE. Since its conception, the committee has always been at the forefront of driving forward positive change, and a more inclusive ASHS through its efforts to create diverse and transformative content.

SOGIE Equality & Women Empowerment

The ASHS Lakambini committee set its sights on championing the rights of women and LGBTQIA+ members of the community through an educational and proactive standpoint by upholding the committee’s advocacies of gender sensitivity & awareness and women empowerment. The committee has been committed to constantly providing the ASHS community with basic SOGIESC knowledge, prioritizing building a safer space within and outside the Ateneo exceptionally, even through virtual projects.

The committee championed into the ASHS community its mission of equitable rights and relations between genders. Through being in constant and efficient communication with various student-leaders and members of the administration, Lakambini is able to immediately address and provide support for raised concerns, fighting for the individual's right to be heard.

Intersectionality

Lakambini takes into account the importance of intersectionality within our advocacies. This means recognizing how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and nationality are hugely interconnected. Lakambini recognizes the intersectionality of queerness within the Philippine context— how discrimination of queer people in the Philippines also comes from systemic issues like neocolonialism and inequality. Ang lugar namin bilang kababaihan at mga LGBTQ+ ay sa pakikibaka para sa bayan.

History of Lakambini

The first co-education batch of the ASHS was welcomed in the year of 2017. During that time, there were no existing protocols in place to address cases of sexism, SGBV, and homophobia, which were rampant in an environment deeply rooted in misogyny and tradition. Lakambini was established on August 16-25, 2017 in order to combat ignorance and gender discrimination which thoroughly persisted throughout the first few years of the new co-ed environment in the Senior High School. Given this, the Sandigan was primarily organized to provide safe spaces for women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community who had to bear the brunt of the lacking system during the past years. Moreover, Lakambini started a movement which pushed for survivor-centric systems, and SOGIE equality in the ASHS.

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