Friday, May 04, 2007 Group bares pro-poor projects
THE Rotary Club District 3860 will implement in the Visayas and Mindanao several projects on literacy, health and hunger, water and environment.
District governor Yumi Espina and assistant district governor Danny Vicencio said during the 888 Forum at Marco Polo Plaza Hotel recently that Rotary Club is a service club which will fill up the service which the government failed to deliver in certain areas.
Espina said that literacy is mainly for children who have the potential but can hardly go to school because their families lack the resources.
On the other hand, health and hunger issues will be focused on women.
Vicencio said that “sharing blessings to the less privileged Filipinos will give them the opportunity to uplift their living condition.”
Included in Rotary’s literacy program is the donation of books and reference materials to schools where pupils and students cannot afford them, Espina said.
Village aid
The Rotary Club Cebu East started adopting a kindergarten school in Mabolo last year during the incumbency of its president, Dr. Antonio Chua, and this has been continued by president Hisao Sone.
Espina said the Rotary Club of Tagbilaran City has initiated the Village Aid Project, helping the most needy in the community by providing them free food and medicines.
The Tagbilaran club sourced it funds for the project from donors in Australia.
“We are inviting the Rotary Club of Tagbilaran City to duplicate this noble project at the North Reclamation Area in Cebu City where children always experience hunger because they lack food,” Espina said. (EOB)
