CLUB’S HEALTH PROGRAMS TO CONTINUE IN SINAGTALA
The hot summer break will not prevent the club’s health projects in Sinagtala to continue this April and May, 2010. Thanks to the school’s administrators and the RCC, the daily Anti TB treatment and the supplemental feeding of children will continue until their graduation in June.
To entice the children and the mothers in coming to school during the summer, RCSFDM, the school, the IWC of SFDM and the RCC have planned a variety of activities, such as basic computer learning for both mothers and children, arts and crafts workshops, livelihood training and healthy food preparation lessons for mothers, which will be part of the Mothers’ Health Empowerment Program.
At the end of the TB treatment, after the completion of the 6-month period, except those recommended for extension by PP Doc Manny Po, the children with the parents and RCC representatives will be feted in a graduation ceremony with certificates and tokens and will also be brought to a tour of the Children’s Museum and to an amusement park.
The Anti TB treatment and supplemental feeding has three (3) months more to go. The change in the weight and vitality of the children are already visible. It will be a noble and grand achievement of the club, if all 100 children and some parents who are source of the disease are treated. The club would then have contributed to the eradication of TB in children, as well as TB in the community at large.
President Mar Reyes has urged his fellow clubmen to continue to give their support to this project, whose high impact and significance to the community is immeasurable. Children not treated from TB will grow to become sources and they will lead lives of difficulty because they could not compete and finish well in school and they will not be able to find jobs because their lungs would show the disease. They will be met with limited opportunities for improvement, in all aspects of their lives. Worse, they will have children who will most likely be afflicted with disease, and the vicious cycle will continue.
President Mar tells SFDM members that their timely intervention, through the club’s health projects, will change lives for the better, forever. The impact of this intervention will cascade through generations, and that is one of the noblest contributions to society we will have, in the name and spirit of Rotary’s “Service Above Self.”
CLUB REGISTERS TWO ROTARY COMMUNITY CORPS (RCCS)
Seeing the need to get the parents and teachers (non-Rotarians) involve and participate in the club’s numerous projects in both of its adopted schools, RCSFDM organized and registered with the RI two (2) Rotary Community Corps, one at the Sinagtala Elementary School, and another at the E. Rodriguez Jr. High School, both in QC.
The Sinagtala RCC has been helping the club’s health projects, particularly the Children Health Empowerment Program, the Anti TB and Supplemental Feeding and the Mothers’ Health Empowerment Program. The RCC members also helped organize and assisted in the holding of the 1st ever Christmas Party of the entire school last December 16, 2009.
This summer, the RCC will again help in the summer enrichment activities for the children and mothers, particularly those undergoing TB treatment and supplemental feeding. To keep the children and mothers interested in coming to the school during the summer break, the following activities have been lined up by RC SFDM, the IWC of SFDM and the Sinagtala Elementary School:
- Basic Computer course for mothers,
- Basic Computer course for children,
- Arts and Crafts,
- Livelihood program for volunteers,
- Basic healthy food preparation for mothers.
The E. Rodriguez Jr. High School Rotary Community Corps is composed of teachers and some officers and members of the school’s PTA. It has planned to help assist in the start-up activities of the “Caravan project”, which will involve the orientation and participation of parents and teachers in substance abuse management.
Both RCCs have vowed to work hand in hand with RCSFDM and to see to it that the necessary support from teachers and parents is present to ensure follow through and successful and compete implementation of club projects.
The Sinagtala RCC is headed by Ms. Diana DJ. Rivera, the school’s Science Head Teacher, while the E. Rod’s RCC is headed by Ms. Tess Mallillin, President of the school’s PTA.
With the presence of active RCCs, the club is assured that partners in service will be around to help implement meaningful and high-impact projects designed to benefit the school and the surrounding communities. Foremost of all, the RCCs can come up with projects of their own, assisted by RCSFDM, or recommend laudable projects for RCSFDM to help implement for the benefit of the communities they are serving.
Club Holds Project Briefing for GSE Inbound Team
On March 25, 2010, RCSFDM hosted the project site visits of GSE Teams from Switzerland/Liechtenstein and South Korea . It started with a briefing at the Rotary Center to provide the GSE Teams an overview of the Club and its projects. Among the projects visited were the Early Childhood Development Center in Marikina, Sinag-Tala Anti-TB and Supplemental Feeding Project in QC, The MSU in PN Ronnie Yap’s yard, and the Sentro ng Manggagawa Ng Pilipinas’ organic farming for hogs and poultry raising in Bgy. Greater Fairview.
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