NO SMOKING CAMPAIGN

NO SMOKING PLEASE....goooddaaahhh!!!!

WE ARE SUPPORTING THE PHILIPPINE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

and its component medical society in each province on this campaign.

IT'S HIGHTIME TO STRICTLY IMPLEMENT THE LAW,

say mo P. Jerry??? (wink)

OCTOBER - VOCATIONAL MONTH, Ang Bag-O Nga Patiyog - October 1, 2010

The Four-Way Test

The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:

Of the things we think, say or do

1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Vocational Service is one of Rotary’s Four Avenues of Service. Vocational Service calls every Rotarian to:

• aspire to high ethical standards in their occupation;

• recognize the worthiness of all useful occupations, and;

• contribute their vocational talents to the problems and needs of society.

CLASSIFICATION
When professionals join a Rotary club, they do so as a representative of their classification – their particular business or profession.
Rotarians have the dual responsibility of representing their vocation within the club and exemplifying the ideals of Rotary within the workplace.

ETHICS

One of the central goals of Vocational Service is to promote and advance Rotary’s high ethical standards. Two useful tools Rotarians have to assess these standards are The Four-Way Test and The Declaration of Rotarians in Business and Professions.

Several of RI’s programs offer opportunities to exercise Vocational Service, including:

1. Rotary Volunteers: put your vocational talents to work on a service project
2. Rotary Fellowships: start or join a vocational fellowship group
3. RYLA: teach young people leadership skills
4. Rotary Friendship Exchange: conduct vocational exchanges with Rotarians in other parts of the world

PROJECT IDEAS

• Classification talk at club meetings.
• Tour of members’ businesses.
• Community career, fairs and workshops.
• Mentor young people.
• Promote ethical behavior in business.
• Volunteer your vocation.
• Create a vocational award program.

Every October, Rotarians are encouraged to focus their attention on vocational service. Vocational Service Month is an opportunity to begin year-long vocational service activities, ranging from Rotary discussions to awards to community projects. (http://www.rotary.org/)

SHARE YOUR VOCATION THIS OCTOBER

Boys and Girls Week Mock Session

Boy and Girls in Photos

Project W.A.L.K. Progress, Ang Bag-O Nga Patiyog Bulletin, October 1, 2010

Frenz Charlz is ushered by one Cebu Pacific ground steward for boarding...

PP Megs Lunn and Frenz Charlz before departure for Manila

At last, Frenz Charlz Hormillosa (5-yo) , the 4th beneficiary of

Project W.A.L.K (Wishes of Aid and Limbs for Kids)

has finally left for Manila last Sept. 27, 2010. He is shown here with her Mom Luisa and one of our benefacors (free plane ticket) - Ramil Buncalan, a friend of PP Megs.

Wishes of Aid and Limbs for Kids (W.A.L.K.) aims to assist physically challenged children. A person’s physical mobility goes beyond moving oneself from one place to another. By providing limbs to a physically handicapped person, we endeavor to propel one’s confidence and self-worth towards personal growth and productivity. THIS IS OUR MISSION.
Project W.A.L.K.

Boys and Girls Educational Trip

BOY AND GIRLS ANSWERED CRITICAL ISSUES, Ang Bag-O Nga Patiyog Bulletin, October 1, 2010

The twenty-eight (28) high school students who were luckily chosen to represent the boys and girls week event of RC Roxas, in the celebration of the New Generation Month this September, faced a panel of adjudicators last Sept. 26, 2010 at the Provincial Health Office, Roxas City, Capiz.

These students took the exams last Sept. 25, 2010 at the Rotary Center of which from among the sixty-four (64) high school applicants from both public and private high schools in Roxas City, twenty-eight (28) students successfully made it to the top. They were chosen to be Mayor, Vice-Mayor and Councilors for the week to sit and report for duty during the one-week event.

During the interview, there was one general guide questions given to them. If given the chance to be the newly elected Philippine president, what are the first three (3) priority projects that you will carry out in your first 100 days? Students were very conversational and outspoken. Generally, they prioritized Education, Alleviation of Poverty and Health.

Education as they said is the key to progress. According to Ivy Lopez, 16 year-old high school, if one gets a good education, he/she will surely succeed. However, most of the students presently are not seriously taking the opportunity of good education. When asked why, she said, most perennial problems that the youths are facing right now are: teenage pregnancy, smoking/addiction, truancy and joining fraternities.

These concerns that this youths raised before the panelists were likewise affirmed by the rest of them. Stefanie further explained that, some of the reasons why most students do not have interest in their studies are the low quality of teacher’s strategy in teaching lessons, students instead cut classes and play computers. Other classmates would say, the teachers are boring, I hate the subjects, etc.

As to their stand in the additional 2 years of school, they almost disagreed. Jasef said, the government would instead think to add more classrooms and hire quality teachers so that students will become globally competitive. According to them, the additional 2 years will not answer to the deteriorating standard of education, but rather, will give more problems to the parents especially that 80% of Filipinos fall below poverty line.

On teenage pregnancy, John Rey said that, parents play a big role in discussing sex education before the dinner table. Likewise, among the 28 students, about half of them agreed to include sex education in their curriculum. They are in favor of getting awareness thru sex education in school, as to how the modules will be presented, that is now the debate. They also are concern of the teenage pregnancy cases in their school because of curiosity and lack of knowledge on reproductive health.

Truancy outside of the school community is rampant. Mariah Yza would agree to these. She suggested that computer shop owners should be disciplined by the city government and that to implement the Law on Truancy. Kirbie added, in order that these students will not cut classes and resort to truancy, teaching strategy should be improved, teachers should be sent to more seminars and learn new strategy in presenting lessons and not make it boring to them; to also provide teachers good salary and additional school rooms and facilities for more learning opportunities.

As to abolish Sangguniang Kabataan, Toni Maree, Ann Karlyn, Pearl Ann and Joem disagreed. They said, they represent the voice of the youth in the community. And in their Barangay, they do good deeds like providing sports fest for out of school youth and the like. While Ferdinand, Jason Jay, Christina and Venice agreed to abolish SK as they are being lured to corruption by some politicians like vote buying and will end up with corrupted mind, in return becomes the liability of the community. They said, if ever, they would want SK to be functional, otherwise eliminate it.

These students in the truest sense of the world indeed indentified perennial problems of the youths in school and in the community, too. They were all articulate in exposing the fact that there cases such as this that is really happening before their eyes. These are the everyday challenge they are facing. Other observations they said are, addiction to smoking, drinking and peer pressure, population control, no justice for all especially the poor and boring teachers. The cause of some is attention deficit from busy parents that resort them to these vices.

As to the alleviation of poverty, if they will be given the chance to be the president, most of them will provide feeding program, housing to the poor and jobs to the jobless. They also said, that by providing free education for all, it will resolve corruption and poverty. When asked about health, they all agreed to give solutions to the alarming dengue; to strictly implement the segregation of waste materials and the consistent clean up activities, as what they are doing in school now.

When asked to give a grade for President Aquino, 10 being the highest – average grade was 6. They all saw the hostage crisis on television and they said, we wished P-Noy could have done something to stop the crisis and avoid the loss of lives. On the other hand, most of them, too, idolized Pres. Noy and hoping that he could bring change to the country and become the role model of the youths.

Only a couple of them gave solutions to improve tourism by bringing in investors in the country. Jan Erol affirmed that where there is development, there is also the negative effect of tourism. However, he said, it is but normal that there is the pros and cons to tourism, but more on the side of pros like giving employment to the locals.

These 28 students are ready to face the challenge to report to duty from Sept. 27 to October 1 at the city municipal office. We will wait for more exciting news of their actions to some of these concerns they brought out during the interview. John Paul said that, “I wish that during the boys and girls week, the city government will give attention to our concerns.”

Led by Pres. Jerry Lames as the committee chairman, the invited panelists were PE Mariz Gepilano PP Megs Lunn, Rtn. Raoul Bermejo, Rtn. Marie Antonette Borres, Rtn. Rexam and Rtn. Toto Arce.

Happy New Generations Month celebration Rotary International.

NEW GENERATION MONTH - Boy and Girls Week Kicked Off, Ang Bag-O Nga Patiyog Bulletin- October 1, 2010

In celebration of the New Generations Month this September, the Rotary Club of Roxas, D3850 successfully start-off Boys and Girls Week today, Sept. 25, 2010 at the Rotary Center, Capiz National HS, Roxas, City, Capiz.

President Jerry Lames chaired the committee on the scheduled testing and there were about 64 student-leader applicants from thirteen (13) private and public high schools in the city who bravely took the brain-racking exams. The schools were: Our Lady of Grace Academy, St. Mary’s Academy of Capiz, St. Pius X Seminary, Dumolog National High School,College of St. John- Roxas, Congressman Arnaldo High School, Colegio dela Purisima Concepcion, Culasi National High School, Balijuagan National High School, Bago National High School, Marcos Fuentes Integrated High School, Filamer Christian University and Tanque National High School.

From among the sixty-four (64) applicants, there were about twenty-eight (28) who passed. Tomorrow, they will battle in the interview portion before the panel of Rotarians adjudicators. Then,they will be representing the exciting and promising week-long itinerary which Pres. Jerry prepared for them. Among the scheduled activities are: Briefing for city programs, report to session hall as student legislators, field trip of the city and out of town, visiting gov’t agencies, leadership forum and Rotary meeting to name just a few. These student leaders will be exposing to the real life of being young legislators and to the advance learning of the workings of the city programs while at the core, so that someday, they will be responsible youth leaders and productive young citizens of the community. This is where Rotarians make a difference to the young generations, to lead the youth to greater opportunity of learning.

The following Rotarians helped facilitating the checking of exams were: Sec. Leah, PE Mariz, PP Megs, PP Sanny, PP Mhel, PP Reubin, Rtn. Antonette, Rtn. Raoul, and Admin. Sec. Weng, while Rtn. Toto prepared the documents.

The Boys and Girls week is an annual event for Rotary Club of Roxas in the celebration of the New Generations Month, one of the thrusts of Rotary International and in fact, the 5th Avenue of Service presented during club strategic planning. Surely, the boys and girls week is likewise celebrated by other clubs in the district and other districts, too. Why not? Apart from the fact that the youths are, are our future, this is likewise, a once in a lifetime chance for us to be able to show our commitments to Rotary service, hoping that also in the future, these youth leaders will be future young and vibrant Rotarians.

We are looking forward to the city officials (elected counterparts) during the actual action with the youngsters at the session hall and that to their generosity of time in mentoring our youths in this endeavor. We will be keeping you posted on this thrilling adventure with the youths.

EVERY DISABLED CHILD MATTERS PEDIA DAY, Sept. 22, 2010

PP Megs Lunn (RC Roxas) and next to Megs is Rtn. Joanna (RC Kalibo) jointly

joined the Pedia Day of Medical Society for the handicapped children

(Sept. 22, 2010)

With the contribution from PP/AG Pip Acepcion, PP Megs

was able to give fun games and freebies to the parent

and kids alike .... the kid here was struggling on her ABC ...

she finally got it right......

There were trivia games on handicapped kids and their parents...

presently STAC Kalibo has 357 kids who avails of the regular scheduled

free therapy and comprehensive medical attention ....

Prizes were MOSQUITO BUGSLOCK courtesy of
RC ROXAS, AG Pip Acepcion....

Yeheeeeyyyy, we won.......andam ka dengue!!!


....with free consultation and medicines from members
of volunteer Pedia Doctors....


Pedia Day was in celebration of the National Medicine Week
of Philippine Medical Association and the local medical society...