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Rotary club membership carries with it certain
responsibilities. · Members are expected to
attend weekly programs of the club. Opportunities to make up attendance
include attending the regular meeting of another Rotary club, attending
various other Rotary meetings, or attending a club service project authorized
by the club board of directors. · Members are required to
pay annual dues to their clubs, their districts, and to Rotary International. · Members are expected to
participate in local or international activities or projects of the Rotary
club. · Clubs encourage members
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find that our communities need much more from us, and that we have much more to give. In the midst of a deepening economic
crisis, we cannot just ignore the plight of the poor in our community. More
and more people are now living either on the fringes of poverty or way below
the so-called "“poverty line"”- with no jobs, no roof above their
heads, no blanket to keep them warm on cold dark nights and no food to
nourish their bodies. Many have forage for food scraps in garage cans just to
survive. Not a few have even taken to stealing for their next meal. Realizing this, we have been, for the
past several years, undertaking community service projects geared ;towards
alleviating poverty. We have adopted several depressed barangays in San
Fernando and made these our Rotary Village Corps. It was in these depressed
villages where our club focused its community service projects such as
livelihood (pig and goat dispersal), cooperatives in the form of credit
unions and sari-sari stores, medical missions, donations of jetmatic water
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After two or more years of assisting
these communities, our club made a difference in the lives of these
communities. Through these projects, we have shared with them, a little of
ourselves and by so doing, we have made the people, whose lives we have
touched realize how beautiful life is. By sharing with, caring for and giving
what we have to those who are in need, we have done what God wants us to do –
“Feed my sheep.” By these acts, the Rotarians went a little close to the
hearts of these people who really need the true Christian solicitude and
assistance. This is the Essence of Community Service. And as someone once wrote, ‘whenever we
share the goodness in our hearts, we always end up winning life is an echo,
it gives back what we give.” |
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PAST PRESIDENT’S CORNER - Asst. Ed Dindo Astom |
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The
Essence of Community Service BY PP VIRGILIO “Vir” C. CABADING |
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ternational Service. The “Avenues” refer to the four elements of the Object of Rotary and
together, they represent the general program of Rotary: our mission of
service. The Rotary spirit maybe intangible and
inexplicable but it binds us with ties of tolerance and brotherhood for each
other’s shortcomings. It brings nobility to our daily acts of service. By
giving a little of our time, a little of our goodwill, our experience and
our knowledge, we constantly ensure that something gets done to fulfill our
mission of service. During the early formative years of
Rotary, its activities were focused on the first two avenues. Club Service
and Vocational Service. At that time, friendship and camaraderie were the
original motive for club meetings, enhanced later by sharing mutual
concerns and helping each other through our respective
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PP Virgilio C. Cabading President RCSFU Rotary Year 1997-1998 Theme: “Show
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of Rotary. Back then, the original Rotarians of the first Rotary Club, RC of
Chicago, saw a need to construct a public bathroom in downtown Chicago. Many
Rotarians today may find this funny but that Chicago bathroom project was
Rotary’s very first community service project. It did not only benefit the
entire community, it also ushered in the third Avenue of Service. Today, Community Service is considered
the “heartbeat of Rotary” and it is regarded as the central concern for Rotarians and Rotary Clubs. Rotarians
undertake Community Service activities to improve the quality of life of the
people in their community.. Opportunities for Rotarians to help others are
limitless and, as new and increasingly complex problems plaque the community,
club activities must address today’s most critical needs and issues. Foremost
of these violence, drug abuse, AIDS, poverty, environmental degradation,
illiteracy as well as problems of the youth, the aged, the disabled and countless others who look to Rotary as a source of hope for a better
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Becoming a person for others is the
essence of being a Rotarian. This ;is expressed eloquently through the “Four
Avenues of Service” in Rotary namely: Club Service, Community Service, Vocational
Service and In |
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