fareasternsoul

Because John Pierre considers himself a servant leader - who have been searching for answers and what his purpose of existing in this very hostile world... he cannot argue his self-discovery that he exist to fight for those who does not have a voice to survive because he himself did not have any voice.. Until he learned to let go his fears and confront the world. And because he wanted to rise above the givens in life most often than not he refuse to accept, he commit to overcome these by transcending the spheres of progressions he lay down upon himself and those under the care of his organization: from victims to survivors, from survivors to advocates, from advocates to nation-builders and finally enduring every adversity in life to become Global Citizens
John Pierre feels connected whenever he is with street children and other outcasts and rejected members of society. He feels a strange form of peace, security and belongingness. He considers these young people his family and source of healing. They see hope in his smile and he sees the same hope in their eyes. Though their organization's inner peace summit conducted every year when they unite themselves with the Earth, he go with them in a place where they can connect themselves from their inner wounded child, connect with eah other, and connect their inner struggles and strengths believing that by doing so - they take responsibility of the others and that through shared strengths they overcome each others burden and each becomes lighter.

As he strive to connect himself to the Earth and to Humanity, he did so by redifining God in his life as a manifestation rather that an exisiting supreme being. God's manifestation according to him is a human decision and spiritual journey and not a religious dogma. A sacred decision toward being respectful of his own existence, his relationship with other humans and how he cares for the source of life - the Earth. Man's failure in doing so is the manifestation of the Devil resulting to indifference, war, hunger, destruction. However weaving one's relationship to other humans, the animals, plants, the air, the seas, the mountains, the trees and the stars results in manifesting the Great Spirit that makes this world a peaceful place to live. To make the world a peaceful place however starts as an individual journey and an inner daily struggle confronting the givens in life existing before one is born or even when Humanity was formed. One is born with two powers, one is the inherent power of Light and the other is the inherent power of Darkness. Man's struggles is within and that is the darkness and the light, when the darkness overcomes light = chaos and when light overcomes darkness = peace.
~ JOHN passionately want to happen is to influence people to dream, he believes that true leaders has no followers because a leader is a follower of his own dreams. Once he lead, people see their dreams and decides to follow them. And from there on, change happens and each becomes changemakers of their own ~

JOHN Piermont Montilla is a BS Biological Sciences Graduate of the West Visayas State University with some Master’s units in Health Social Science from the De La Salle University and a Certificate in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health from the University of San Carlos in Cebu as Ford Foundation Fellow. He dreams to become an Ethnobiologist and an Epidemiologist someday.
THROUGH the youth-led Kabataang Gabay sa Postibong Pamumuhay where he serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for 10 years now, he is advocating against worst forms of child labour – his passion which is inspired by his own childhood experience. Through his organization, he finds healing and healing of others.
HIS organization brings him and his members to many worst forms of child labour in southern Philippines particularly in the Visayas islands such as deep sea fishing in Northern Iloilo, sugarcane labour in his home province Negros and Passi City in Iloilo, production of pyrotechnics in Arevalo Iloilo City, domestic work in highly urbanized cities where children are trafficked from the countryside and the popular, most profitable and demeaning: children in the commercial sexual exploitation and drug trade.
AT PRESENT, he is directing 6 projects, (1) HIV prevention among most-at-risk children, youth and women, (2) Poverty Alleviation among Children in the Sugarcane Farms, (3) Treatment, Care and Support for PLHIV and there orphaned children, (4) HIV-Risks and Vulnerabilities of Street Children in 5 Highly Urbanized Cities in the Philippines: An Operations Research (5) Advocacy Programme for Children in the Illegal Drug Trade, (6) Prevention and Mitigation of Micro-level Sexual Trafficking of Children in Western Visayas.
HIS work with prostituted children is a risk-taking job, had rescued a number of girls from sexual trafficking and organized prostituted boys to control their agression as a result of their victimization and transform them into a pool of peer mentors together with girls to help children-victims of child prostitution and prevent others from being victimized. His organization has been receiving threats and other forms of harrassment but they count their blessings instead and continue their work with courage, passion and faith.