Official e-Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Holy Spirit
The Dove August 23, 2016
Rotary Club of Holy Spirit Club No. 69935 RI District 3780 Philippines
Vol. IX No. 06
Holy Spirit participates in 2nd Multi-club Membership Development Seminar RC Holy Spirit joined 32 other D3780 clubs last August 17 in participating in the 2nd Multi-club Membership Development Seminar organized by the District Membership Committee chaired by PP Bernadette “BH” Herrera-Dy. About 200 Rotarians listened intently as PDG Rolando “Oyan” Villanueva of RC Baguio Summer Capital D3790 animatedly talked about how to motivate club members particularly
potential recruits. He also urged the ASP’s to lead with a heart and build relationships that last. PDG Rufino “Penny” Policarpio acted as Moderator in the ensuing open forum. LG Ric Doria acted as the event’s night chair. The multi-club meeting was capped by fellowship and drawing of raffle prizes.
District Membership Development Committee Chair PP Bernadette “BH” Herrera reports that 204 new members have joined Rotary, including 4 in RC Holy Spirit From District Membership Chair BH Herrera: “This month of August has surely been a busy month for the Membership Development Committee of District 3780. I must say we are off to a good start! We have rolled out our Vision 20-20 Membership goals, started implementing the innovations we have made in the committee, prepared incentives to clubs who help us achieve vision 20-20, jump-started the multi-club Membership Development Seminar series, began preparations for the New Member Orientation Seminar and the Membership Fellowship Night
and are continuously formulating our future plans for membership growth. As of August 26, 2016, I am also very happy to update our district that we have a total of 204 registered new members coming from 41 Rotary Clubs from our district. Alright!” The full update report of the committee to DG Dwight Ramos may be read and downloaded from this link: MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT UPDATE August 26, 2016.
Holy Spirit is featured in UNTV Rotary in Action
On August 20, 2016, ASP Peth Rivera and PP Marcia Salvador were guests in the early morning radio program of UNTV Rotary in Action. Anchored by PP Rey Rimonde of RC Kagitingang Cubao, the program gave ASP Peth and PP Marcia an opportunity to talk about RCHS’s signature and other service projects. The radio interview must have been one the last interviews hosted by PP Rey before he had to be confined at the St Luke’s Medical Center within the next several days.
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Holy Spirit comes to the aid of habagat victims
When heavy rains and floods brought by the enhanced southwest monsoon hit the metropolis, one of the hardest hit areas was Barangay Bagong Silangan. D3780 Rotaractors and Rotarians immediately organized a relief and response team, collecting relief goods, repacking them and bringing them to the flood victims temporarily housed at the covered court of Barangay Bagong Silangan, Bagong Sulyap evacuation site and also at Barangay Tatalon. The relief efforts of D3780 helped around a thousand indigent flood victims. RC Holy Spirit donated 240 bottles of purified water. Also, ASP Peth Rivera of Holy Spirit donated P3,000 for the relief fund.
The larger combined effort from August 15: Rotary’s immediate response relieves suffering of 1,000 flood victims in Quezon City From the Governor’s Monthly Letter (GML) August 2016.The district relief mission helped around 1,000 flood victims. Thanks to the efforts of DCOS Cecille Rodriguez, District Community Service Chair Aiza Remedios with Co-Chair PP Eren Tumali, PP Jun Zipagan of the Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery Committee, ASP Mustafa Al-sayyad, PP Andy Almendral and LG Ric Doria. And, of course, special thanks to our Rotaractors led by DRR Rachel Diano. Thanks to the following Rotary clubs who generously contributed their share for the relief mission: Bagong Silangan, Camp Aguinaldo, Camp Karingal, Camp Panopio, Cubao, Cubao Edsa, Cubao South, Diliman North, Diliman QC, Eastwood, Holy Spirit, Kagitingang Cubao, Kamuning Central, Kamuning East, Katipunan, Lagro Ascencion, Midtown QC, Neopolitan Fairview, New Manila QC, North Edsa, Quezon City, QC Central, Quirino QC, Roces, San Bartolome, SFDM, Sta Mesa, South Triangle, Valencia, West Central QC, West Triangle.
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This page of The Dove e-bulletin serves as home page of the “virtual website” of ROTARY CLUB OF HOLY SPIRIT Rotary International District 3780 Officers & Chairmen
Members
About the Club
Service Projects
Classification talk by former Central Banker Percy Zabala during fellowship-meeting
Gallery
What is Rotary?
Club Bulletin
It was also an occasion to have Rtn Percy Zabala, formerly a regional director of the Bangko Central ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), talk about banking. Joining the fellowship was Spouse PDG Francis Rivera, himself a retired banker.
August 16, 2016 was a night of fellowship cum meeting for seventeen (17) RCHS members who came together at the McDonald’s store along Holy Spirit Drive for some burger, fries and chicken. Plus sweet pomelos and mangoes brought by ASP Peth Rivera straight from the Rivera farm in Bulacan.
PP Eui Bong Jung attended the meeting which was held one day prior to his departure for Korea to join up with family.
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MESSAGES FROM ROTARY LEADERS
RI President’s August 2016 Message Forty years ago, a man named George Campbell, the owner of the company I worked for, invited me to join Rotary. Back then, that was a common practice in the United States. Your boss invited you to join Rotary because he thought it would be good for business and good for the community, and you said yes. It’s not surprising that our membership surged during that period. George warned me not to use Rotary as an excuse to slack off at work. Even so, I always had time to attend lunch meetings and serve on committees. I never had to worry that taking a long lunch once a week would hurt my advancement, or what my boss would think about the occasional Rotary phone call at work. Today, things are different. Companies are less generous about time, and not every manager looks favorably on community service. It’s hard to enjoy a Rotary meeting when you’ve got emails piling up on your phone. It’s harder than ever to balance work with Rotary – and the model that gave us so much growth a few decades ago is part of what’s holding back our growth now. That’s why the recent Council on Legislation adopted some innovative measures that allow clubs to vary their meeting times and expand their pool of prospective members. Clubs have more flexibility now to respond to the needs of their members and to clear away as many barriers to membership as they can. But there’s one barrier to membership that only you can remove, one thing that every prospective member needs to become a Rotarian: an invitation to join a Rotary club. Whenever I tell a group of Rotarians that we need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward, everyone applauds. But those hands, hearts, and minds won’t magically appear in our clubs. We have to ask them to join. And an invitation to Rotary is something that only you can give. An invitation is a gift. It’s saying to someone, “I think you have the skills, the talent, and the character to make our community better, and I want you to join me in doing that.” I’m the president of Rotary International, but the only club I can invite someone to join is the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tenn. I can’t make your club or your community stronger. Only you can do that – by inviting the qualified people you know to join you in Rotary Serving Humanity. JOHN F. GERM President 2016-17
Foundation Chairman’s August 2016 Message More members mean a stronger Foundation Our Rotary Foundation depends on a strong and thriving Rotary membership. It is, after all, our members who provide the generous support that enables our Foundation to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. As important as that support is, it’s not the only contribution Rotarians make to our Foundation. The Rotary Foundation has an unusual business model. Like many charities, we receive donations that we use to address a host of critical issues. Unlike most other nonprofit organizations, we depend on our members to develop relevant and effective service projects. Your volunteer labor stretches our contribution dollars and helps The Rotary Foundation to do much more with less. The typical global grant requires hours of planning and budgeting before even one dollar is received or spent. Then the sponsors must purchase supplies, seek donated goods, set up bank accounts, organize volunteers, write reports, and monitor the project’s progress, all while working with Rotarians in another part of the world. Fortunately, our clubs have a wide variety of professional skills and talents to call upon throughout this process. Smaller clubs may not have the financial or human resources to sponsor a global grant, even if their members share a strong commitment to the Foundation’s mission. Imagine what those clubs could accomplish with two or three times as many members. As we celebrate Membership and New Club Development Month in August, let’s not forget the importance of quickly engaging new members in Rotary service. Make sure they know about the many opportunities our Foundation offers members to pursue their service interests, from promoting better health to providing training and education to bringing peace and stability to communities in need. Through The Rotary Foundation, our members have a chance to use their skills to make a real difference. First, we need to bring those talented people into our ranks and engage them in our Foundation’s vital work to create a better world. And only we, the Rotarians, can bring in those new members. So it is up to us, really, isn’t it?
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District Governor’s Message By Governor Dwight Hilarion M. Ramos, Rotary International District 3780
Let us lead the way in carrying forth the tradition of ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY
We should have more Rotarians who can achieve more good work, and who will become the Rotary leaders of tomorrow. And so it goes back to what Paul Harris has said about members combining all their effort in order to serve humanity together: This is Rotary Serving Humanity! This calls for all our Clubs to chart a seamless and smooth segue from membership to TRF to public image and back.
The recent Council on Legislation adopted some innovative measures that now give Clubs more flexibility to respond to the needs of their members and to clear away as many barriers to membership as they can. Clubs can already vary their meeting times, can have in-person or online participation, and can expand their pool of prospective members. Now in explaining the RI Presidential Citation for RY 2016-17, President John Germ said that there is no better path to meaningful service today than Rotary membership as we rely to our members in order to be able to make a real and positive difference in our communities. Through the members, Rotary has the capacity, the network, and the knowledge to change the world. Thus, our goal is to have more people join us and become members of Rotary.
From the Governor’s Monthly Letter (GML) August 2016
We start by getting our members' ideas organized into projects and then apply for a TRF grant to fully or partially fund these Club Service Projects. We successfully implement our service projects then let everyone know of what our Club has done through a PR program. The community sees, reads and hears about our Club projects, thus membership recruitment is enhanced. Donors, both here and abroad, hear and read about them too and soliciting funds for future Club projects will be easier. This cycle goes on and on and at the end of the day, what you actually have is a proven formula for having an effective Club. This is our commitment, both a responsibility and an opportunity, to lead the way in carrying forth the tradition of "Rotary Serving Humanity" this Rotary Year 2016-17.
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SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS FOR WELL-CONNECTED ROTARIANS Click “links” to view contents
ROTARY LEADER July 2016 Online magazine for District and Club Leaders
District 3780 GOVERNOR’S MONTHLY LETTER July 2016
The Gyrator of RC Chicago August 14, 2016
THE DOVE of RC Holy Spirit D3780 Issue No. 5 of Year 9 August 16, 2016
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RC Holy Spirit D3780 has been on Rotary SHOWCASE since 2012. A number of service projects of the Rotary Club of Holy Spirit District 3780 have been posted on the Rotary Showcase of Rotary International since the Showcase was launched GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT MODERNIZES COUNTRY’S FIRST HUMAN MILK BANK in Philippine Children’s Medical Center The GLOBAL GRANT funded project, applied for by host club RC Holy Spirit D3780, District 3780 and primary international sponsor District 3710 Korea, was submitted to and approved by The Rotary Foundation in 2014-15 and implemented & turned over by donation to the PCMC in March 2016.
CHESS BUILDS SPORTSMANSHIP, ENHANCES IMAGE OF ROTARY The 4th annual chess cup dubbed CHECKMATE held on May 29, 2016 was participated in by 186 chess enthusiasts (including 62 players in Kiddie Division). The event featured Asia’s 1st Grandmaster Eugene Torre. Rtn. Eugene thanked RC Holy Spirit for promoting chess and exhorted all players to use the discipline they develop from playing chess in their everyday lives. .
HOLY SPIRIT SMILES Hope is shared with baby and parents when RC Holy Spirit D3780 launched HOLY SPIRIT SMILES Project last August 14, 2012. More children from poor families are expected to benefit from free surgical operation.
WEEKLY FEEDING-READINGLEARNING Weekly learning-feeding program motivates interest to learn and consequently raises literacy of 40 young children living in a depressed dumpsite area.. The continuing program was first rolled out in early August 2012 in Payatas, Quezon City by Rotarians and Rotaractors of RC Holy Spirit D3780. PEACE & UNDERSTANDING To help build international peace and understanding, PE Dr. Eui Bong Jung, OMD, and RC Holy Spirit D3780 hosted the educational-cultural visit in the Philippines of eleven Korean college students last July 16-20, 2012. 07-15-2016
in RY 2011-12. Click on the photos to view Showcase projects of Holy Spirit, and click this link to view other Rotary clubs in the world. ANNUAL MILK-FEED PROGRAM SAVES CHILDREN FROM MALNOUTRITION After 100 days of feeding, the nutritional status of 50 malnourished school children have all improved dramatically to “Normal.” In its recently concluded 5th year, the nutrition program for 50 selected “wasted & severely wasted” pupils of Dona Juana Elementary School, a public school, featured daily intake of fresh milk, snack food and multivitamin syrup. The 6th annual program is due to be launched in September 2016. YOUTH FORUMS ON HIV/AIDS RC Holy Spirit D3780 with the Rotaract & Interact Clubs of Holy Spirit organized the 2nd annual youth forum on Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention last October 28, 2012 in cooperation with the Philippine Red Cross. The outcome desired is to help achieve ZERO new incidence among the youth in Quezon City. RC Holy Spirit and partners organized the 3rd, 4th and 5th forums on September 22, 2013, September 21, 2014, and November 8, 2015, respectively.
QUICK DISASTER RESPONSE RC Holy Spirit D3780 responded quickly to help alleviate hunger among 200 flood victims sheltered at the Bagong Silangan Elementary School evacuation center last August 8, 2012, one day after the deluge. An example is set.
ORIENTAL MEDICAL RELIEF Regular monthly Oriental medical relief missions organized by RC Holy Spirit D3780 and conducted in Barangays Holy Spirit and Payatas in Quezon City have been serving indigent patients from urban poor families since 2012.
BRIGADA ESKWELA PROJECT RC Holy Spirit, Interact and Rotaract Clubs of Holy Spirit D3780 helped two adopted public schools with combined student population of nearly 12,000 prepare for the opening of 2012 classes by performing repair & housekeeping tasks.. These pre-school opening service activities have since been done annually.
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Service opportunity: Rotary members link Love of Beer, Clean Water Crisis By Arnold R. Grahl, Rotary News, August 24, 2016 Beer festivals have a strong fellowship component. When people are sampling beers, they are socializing and having a good time. Founders of the Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide maintains a list of Rotary-sponsored beer festivals and encourages clubs to hold them.
Rotary Club. It's been so successful, the club added a home-brew competition and cornhole tournament this year, and plans to expand the event to two days next year. Other growing festivals include the Weed Brew Fest in California and Brew on the Bay in Key Largo, Florida. The beer fellowship promotes a list of brew fests sponsored by Rotary clubs.
When you sit down to enjoy a beer, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about one of its main ingredients – water. Or the fact that 3,000 children die each day from diseases caused by unsafe water.
GOOD FOR CLUB MORALE When Lenie Jordan, president of the Rotary Club of Franklin, North Carolina, and part owner of his A group of innovative Rotarians aren't just town's microbrewery, heard about the fellowtions to society. thinking; they're doing something about it. ship, he got 20 members of the club to sign Their group, Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide "We are very enthusiastic about the opportuni- up. (BREW), has organized events around the ties to work together," says F. Ronald Denworld and is working to raise hundreds of ham, a past chair of the Water and Sanitation "It has been a point of interest for many of our thousands of dollars for Rotary's global water, Action Group and a member of the Rotary members, and an opportunity to come tosanitation, and hygiene efforts. Club of Toronto Eglinton, in Ontario, Canada. gether in a more casual environment," says Jordan. "I would attribute at least one new "By drinking a beer, I can help bring fresh wa- "On our side, we can present and describe the member to the fellowship. She attended one ter to a village in Africa," says Steven Lack, a projects. BREW will establish relationships with the breweries. And some of the members of our field trips and said she wanted to join. member of the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, are senior executives in breweries. It's a won- It's had a positive effect both on membership, California, USA. "If you can drink beer and and on general morale." some of the money goes to doing good in the derful synergy." world, that is something you can feel good The fellowship's interest in beer gives memA BLUEPRINT FOR FUNDRAISING about." Lack and Aryee founded the beer fellowship in bers an opportunity to share insights and to learn on an international scale. For instance, 2014 after reaching the same conclusion at Fellowships like BREW are Rotary's way of members recently heard how the composition roughly the same time: Beer is fun and probringing together members who share a parof water can determine the type of beer an motes fellowship, both of which make Rotary ticular passion. Rotarian Action Groups unite more appealing. And by bringing together peo- area is famous for. According to All About members who have expertise in a specific Beer magazine, Dublin became known for its ple who share an interest in beer, you can service area. The beer fellowship's leaders darker beers because of its water's high alkaunite them for the purpose of doing good. realized that joining forces with an action line content. Since yeast doesn't perform as group dedicated to providing access to clean "We're always talking about making Rotary well with high alkalinity, brewers gradually water would create a sum larger than the two fun," says Lack. "When people drink beer, discovered they got better results by roasting parts. they are socializing. It's one of those things the barley, which both lowers the alkaline level that brings us together, that makes us equal." and makes a darker beer. Similarly, the soft "Beer and water have a natural affinity; you water in the Czech town of Pilsen made it need water to brew beer" says Moses Aryee, In addition to working with the action group, ideal for the world's first pilsners. past president of the Rotary Club of Accrathe fellowship promotes the idea of good times West, Ghana, and co-chair of the beer fellow- and service by helping clubs organize beer Another useful fact: Beer has historically proship. "Our vision is a global approach to fresh festivals. These events appeal to younger vided a safe drinking alternative when clean water around the world, because beer is people, raise money for club projects, and are water is in short supply, because of the boiling around the world." easy to plan. According to Lack, all you need step in the brewing process. "We've all been is to: to places where we wouldn't drink the water," The fellowship members are working with says Lack, but where "they make a heck of a the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Approach a microbrewery or two to donate beer beer." Group to identify specific water projects to support by funneling 25 percent of the fellowship's dues to those projects, says Lack, the fellowship's vice chair. The members also plan to approach major brewers on each continent to seek financial support for water projects, much as the nonprofit Water.org is receiving $1.2 million from Stella Artois. These projects have the potential to improve people's quality of life in several ways. Every day, 8,000 people die of waterborne disease. In addition, women in many parts of the world spend hours a day fetching water, time they could spend caring for their families, generating income, or making other contribu-
Bring food or secure a food truck Line up a band Pitch a tent
"Microbrewing has become a huge industry, and this is definitely a way to capitalize on the popularity of that," notes Lack, who emphasizes that these fests aren't about getting drunk. The events typically last only a few hours and distribute small sampling cups that hold only four to six ounces. And standing in line limits the amount of time that people have to drink.
In May, more than 60 members of the fellowship, including beer lovers from Russia, South America, Australia, Japan, India, Europe, Africa, and North America, gathered at the Devil's Door Brew Pub in Seoul during Rotary's annual convention, to sample what was on tap and to socialize. Lack says plans are in the works for a brewery tour every night in Atlanta, Georgia, during Rotary's 2017 convention.
"There are all kinds of microbreweries around The State of Jefferson Brew Fest in Dunsmuir, the city, some owned by Rotary members," he California, attracts 1,500 people every August says. "We're also looking to be able to pour and last year netted $15,000 for club projects, beer in our booth (in the House of Friendship). says John Poston, a member of the Dunsmuir You lose some credibility as a beer fellowship if you aren't pouring beer."
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About THE DOVE THE DOVE is the official newsletter of the Rotary Club of Holy Spirit, Rotary International District 3780. The digital publication features “hyperlinks or web-links” which make it a true electronic newsletter/e-bulletin. Distribution: THE DOVE is published in 3 versions: printed, digital PDF, and online. PDF version sent by email to nearly 1,000 addressees, Rotarians and non-Rotarians in the club, in the district, in Philippine Rotary and outside including RI. Posted on social media networks and groups Printed copies for meetings First issue of THE DOVE: 4 June 2009 (Vol I, No. 1) Editorial team: Marcia Salvador - Editor Ric Salvador - Asst Editor Contributors Address: Don Antonio Clubhouse, Holy Spirit Drive, Quezon City PH
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