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2015 will always be a year to remember for JCI Manila, especially for me. I have always believed in the strength of the JCI Manila brotherhood and I have always been proud to be JCI Manila. But this year, I had a full-blown experience of what the brotherhood and support is like when I ran for JCI Philippines National President. I am in deep gratitude, not only because I won, but also because I have come to known how far JCI brothers would go for each other. The battle I chose to fight in the National Level wasn’t easy but with the support of my JCI Manila brothers, I have realized the importance of stepping up and choosing to make a difference despite the hardships and challenges it may entail. That, together, we can make things happen. The Dream and Deliver team was up against a long planned campaign, machineries and overflowing resources of the other party, but we did not falter. We fought head on with wisdom, leadership, integrity and most of all with the JCI Manila camaraderie and charm. Winning would not have been possible without the hard work, dedication and trust of the entire campaign team headed by Sen. Freddie Chua. To all my brothers in JCI, I could not thank you enough, but rest assured, I will forever be grateful and hopefully be able to pay it forward to the coming generations of JCI Manila. I will tell this story of our brotherhood for the rest of my life. Another highlight of this year is the much-awaited recognition to be JCI’s Most Outstanding Local Organization after 20 years topped with winning the Most Outstanding Growth and Development Program and Asia Pacific’s Most Outstanding Economic Development Program. I am deeply overwhelmed by the recognition of the work we have done, but more so with what JCI Manila can do. We made it POSSIBLE JCI Manila. What we have attained as a local organization was not the work of one person nor one term or board, but rather years of continuous effort to BE BETTER. Thank you to all the Past Presidents and Past Board of Directors for mentoring us well and turning over sustainable projects that we were able to include in our accomplishment during our term. I am also in deep gratitude for the hard work of the 2014 Board of Directors, all the Chairmen, committee members, and the entire membership and senators of JCI Manila who made this possible. These long-term projects and programs are here to stay, with or without the awards, we know that we have touched many lives with the programs we have spent our effort, time and resources on. Receiving the awards and raising the JCI Manila banner and the flag of the Philippines on stage in front of thousands of men from more than a hundred nations, we are proud to be JCI Manila! Let’s GO JCI Manila! Together, Let us continue to BUILD as ONE!!!
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Dare to C.A.R.E. (Community Awareness and Rehabilitation Effort)
A project started in 2010 to support the Smokey Mountain community in Tondo, Manila continues today. The Dare to C.A.R.E. umbrella program focuses on the various JCI Manila projects in the fields of Education, Leadership Training, Values education, Sports Development for the Youth, Facilities Improvement, Livelihood and Health for the Smokey Mountain community.
JCI Manila - Smokey Mountain FC
Smokey Mountain football club competing in China
Donation of football cleats to the players of Smokey Mountain
A new smile
Smokey mountain community with JCI Manila
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Ingeniously Indeginous: Weave to Acheive program
Teaching the community how to weave.
The finished product.
Paradise Heights Music Academy
Smokey Montain kids showcasing their new found skills
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JCI Manila lauches Golden Heart at Manila Ocean Park. Families with children affected by Cerebral Palsy were invited for seminars about the disease, how to provide care, and how to make improvements to their conditions. After the seminar the childeren got a chance to enjoy the attractions of Manila Ocean Park. The project is a collaboration with internaitonal sister chapters JCI Hong Kong Jayceettes, JCI Singapore Orchid, and JCI Kota Kinabalu.
JCI Manila also partnered with Steping Stone to provide a venue where children can receive physical therapy and provide them a chance to live a normal life.
Golden Heart Manila is an annual program of JCI Manila to uplift the lives of people with disabilities, in particular children, by creating awareness, educating stakeholders, and providing appropriate opportunities. Spearheaded by International Relations director Joaquin Esquivias, chairman Jerickson Chua, and Co-Chairman Carlos Pascual, the program was launched this year and the team started helping children with Cerebral Palsy.
JCI Manila also provided help to Hospicio de San Jose by providing the children and adults with equipment to ease lives of having cerebral palsy.
“BRINGING HOME THE BACON” Six decades of JCI Manila Triumphs at the JCI World Congress By JCI Senator Reginald T. Yu 2011-2012 President, JCI Senate Manila
An excerpt from an aritcle published in the JCI Manila website. “Join me in congratulating the most outstanding JCI local organization from… Philippines! JCI MANILAAAAAA!!!” – the shrieks, cheers and loud outcries that erupted from the entire Philippine delegation resonated the decades of hard work that built up to this moment, since a similar scene happened in Kobe, Japan almost twenty years ago. It was JCI Manila’s time to shine… again. Indeed, for the past sixty-eight years since its founding, Junior Chamber International Manila (JCI Manila) have always set the benchmark for leadership excellence, not only in the communities with which they serve, but also to the other JCI local organizations, both here and abroad, who have tried very hard to emulate. And the most tangible manifestation of this excellence is none other than the receipt of awards during the most prestigious of Conventions: the JCI World Congress, the Mecca of the JCI movement from all over the world. Over a span of more than sixty years, JCI Manila has been bestowed with the arguable title, “the Most Awarded Chapter in the World,” owing to the countless trophies it has hauled almost every World Congress. Even more so, as it has managed to win the coveted “Most Outstanding Chapter of the
World” Award no less than eight times, the latest of which was during the 70th JCI World Congress in Kanazawa, Japan – a feat still unmatched by any other JCI local organization in history. As an organization, JCI Manila has merited world recognition during several occasions. It is credited notably for having spearheaded the JCI movement in Asia and the Far East. It has also given the Junior Chamber International three JCI World Presidents, two JCI Executive Vice-Presidents, twelve JCI VicePresidents, two JCI Secretaries-General, eight “Outstanding Chapter Presidents of the World,” and two “Outstanding JCI Members of the World.” It success was marked not only by a number of accountable achievements done within the country but also by its contributions, which benefited many in other parts of the world. These accomplishments are signs of its enduring significance to the promotion of service to humanity. It is interesting to note that, during the first years when JCI started introducing the concept of awards, JCI Manila opted not to actively participate in it, as the local administrations felt that the awards should not be something that was consciously worked for, but rather be gratuitously given by the award-giving body. The first major recognition received, therefore, was given, not by anyone within the JCI organization, but by a professional business group, particularly, the Business Writers’ Association of the Philippines (BAP), as it bestowed the BAP Award of the Year to JCI Manila, under President Alberto M. Meer, for having “lent the most aid in the promotion of free enterprise” in 1950. This changed in 1954, during the 9 JCI World Congress in Mexico City, when JCI Manila, under the leadership of President Luis Maria Z. Araneta – fresh from its successful bid to have JCI adopt the “Operation
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Brotherhood” Indo-Chinese Refugee Relief Project passed as an international endeavor during the General Assembly – decided to bid for awards. Its initial attempt was not in vain, as it garnered two major awards: The Most Outstanding Project in Service to Humanity for “Operation Brotherhood” and the Liberty Trophy for the “Most Outstanding Project in Youth Activities” for “Voice of Democracy.” Since then, JCI Manila has become one of the most active award bidders, not to mention recipients, in every JCI Awards Ceremony. The real banner year for JCI Manila, however, was during the Presidency of Aurelio O. Periquet Jr., when it won, for the first time in its history, the Minneapolis Award for the “Most Outstanding Chapter of the World” Award at the 18th JCI World Congress in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1963. For the past eight years, not a single JCI local organization among the more than 5,000 officially recognized Junior Chambers ever qualified for this prestigious award, until the evening of November 23, 1963, when JCI Manila was called to receive the trophy. After that big break in 1963, the quest for the Minneapolis trophy became less elusive, as succeeding administrations were equally successful in garnering this signal recognition. During the 20th JCI World Congress in Sydney, Australia in 1965, JCI Manila under the auspices of President Eduardo S. Escobar, Jr., lost by only few points to a United States Chapter in getting the major prize; they settled for a Certificate of Merit for the “Outstanding Chapter” Award instead. However, JCI Manila came back with a vengeance the following year, when the chapter scored a first-ever back-to-back victory, as it won the Minneapolis Award in 1966 at the
and political situation of the Philippines. President Jose Maria J. Fernandez distinguished himself as the first Manila Jaycee President ever to win the “Most Outstanding Chapter President of the World” Award during the 36th JCI World Congress in Berlin, Germany in 1981. His successor, President Louis B. Kierulf, handily won the 5th Minneapolis Award for “Most Outstanding JCI Local Organization in the World” during the 37th JCI World Congress in Seoul, Korea.
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The year 1970 ushered auspiciously, as it started the decade with another close fight to the “Outstanding Chapter of the World” Award during the 25th JCI World Congress in Dublin, Ireland. Losing only by a few points to a European chapter, JCI Manila, led by President (now our country’s Foreign Affairs Secretary) Albert F. del Rosario, won a Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Chapter during that year. Instead of being daunted, succeeding administrations worked hard to rebuild its prominence in the international community, first by hosting the 23rd JCI AsiaPacific Conference in Quezon City, then by audaciously working to successfully bid for the 1976 JCI World Congress in Manila. Although the bid was eventually awarded to St. Louis, Missouri, JCI Manila was rewarded in more ways than one: it helped install past JCI Manila President Feliciano R. Belmonte, Jr. to the JCI World Presidency in 1976, it paved the way for a successful bid to host the 33rd JCI World Congress in 1978, and won for JCI Manila the 4th Minneapolis Trophy for “Outstanding JCI Local Organization of the World” in 1977 at the 32nd JCI World Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 1980s was dubbed as the “silver era” of JCI Manila, as a succession of outstanding leaders steered JCI Manila to unparalleled heights, despite the worsening economic
But it was in 1983, at the height of the country’s political crisis, when President Ramon S. Bagatsing, Jr., outshone the competition and garnered away, not only with the chapter’s sixth Minneapolis Award, but also the second “Most Outstanding Chapter President of the World” Award during the 38th JCI World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan. It took eight years after 1983, when a major category was won by the chapter. During the 47th JCI World Congress in Miami, Florida, President Benjamin L. Yam became the fourth JCI Manila recipient of the “Most Outstanding Local President of the World” Award in 1992. Two years later, President Alexander T. Lichaytoo duplicated Past President Bagatsing’s near-impossible feat when JCI Manila was adjudged the “Most Outstanding JCI Local Organization of the World” during the 49th JCI World Congress in Kobe, Japan in 1994, and he was bestowed the “Most Outstanding JCI Local President of the World” during the 50th JCI World Congress in Glasgow, Scotland the following year.
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In the light of the chapter’s commitment in upholding its outstanding projects and programs, it can be said with certainty that it
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will continue to receive international acclaim in Junior Chamber conferences. For as long as existing projects are done with innovation and new projects are implemented with great positive impact, they will remain in the list of award-winning endeavors which will perennially inspire more adherents to work hard in being the best. 1977 President Benigno Ricafort
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