Walkah Walkah

A Walk for Voter Education by James Jimenez

Walkah Walkah/wôkä wôkä /

noun

1. the Project to walk from Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, to Matnog, Sorsogon, for voter education + voter information

An enlightened electorate.

Inform.Engage.Educate.

9.6 million registered voters risk DISENFRANCHISEMENT if they fail to have their BIOMETRICS taken before

NOVEMBER 1, 2015.

An estimated 3 million individuals have turned 18 since the last registration period, in 2013.

Voter Registration resumes on May 6, 2014 and will end on October 31, 2015 – a period of a little over 17 months.

TARLAC: A biometrics clinic for the IP

community (Aetas)

STEP-OFF: The launch event coincides with

the start of #VoterReg2014

MAJOR EVENTS

KILOMETER ZERO: A biometrics clinic, with special focus on PWDs

Meeting people face to face, we emphasize the deeply personal nature of the vote and underscore its value to each and every individual – whether already a voter, or belonging to a generation that will inevitably live with the consequences of the choices their elders make.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS: Voter

Education meetings with the locals













LANDMARKS

As we travel the length of the largest island of the Philippines , we will be sending images to the rest of the country through media, both mainstream and social. In doing so, we underscore for voters in other parts of the country what is truly at stake in every elections, beyond the mere thrill of picking the winning side.

34M users; 32% SocMed penetration

Walking, we reconnect.

And reconnecting, we spark conversation and a revitalized commitment to participate as

registered voters.

Forming an intelligent and informed electorate…

… that can leave behind a very different boot-print

on election day.

This is a novel project to increase awareness on voter's registration without the usual resource intensive requirement. Just plain crowd-herding. To paraphrase Neil Armstrong (tritely), -one small step(s) of Pinoys, one giant leap for democracy. Just holler when you will need extra legs from Namfrel

- Eric Alvia

LENTE commends the COMELEC’s EID for its very innovative Walkah-Walkah campaign.

LENTE supports and salutes all the walkers in this very important, historical walkah-walkah campaign.

- LENTE

Walk with us.http://walkahwalkah.org

We are

jamesjimenez is the Director of the Commission on Elections’ Education and Information Department. He is also the COMELEC’s Spokesman.

Tomas Leonor is Step Juan. He is a free- lance artist who, in 2010, walked down the length of Luzon and across the Visayas. In 2013, he was one of the first to airdrop relief goods to the victims of Yolanda.