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May 25, 2011

Gentlemen of RC Makati North!

Well guys we now have a new member in Rod and today Philip will be initiated so that will be another new member and there will be more to follow. We will need this to help pay our dues going forward.

Last week saw an interesting discussion with George Balagtas our “Damage limitation/ crisis management” expert. If we had given him a few more glasses of wine he would have told us more secrets but political secrets probably best kept as far away as possible from the real world.

Today our very own Boy Sevilla will talk about our Aeta project, which we started back in 1994 when our PP Bert Lingad donated 3 hectares of land in Botolan, Zambales to the displaced Aeta community after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.

Since then we have made 7 Medical Dental missions to Zambales and we also launched scholarship program back in 1997/98 (initially 2 students) subsequently, PP Gus Lagman sponsored another two students at STI. The first four students graduated in 2000/2001. This scholarship program was continued by PP Ric dela Torre.

Our “Botolan Outreach Mission” in conjunction with the Inner Wheel Club supported livelihood, scholarship, medical mission and support services.

Today Chieftain Carlito together with our Boy Sevilla will update us on the progress of this worthwhile project. “Then Now and Tomorrow.”

We will also conduct one more visit to our Gawad Kalinga project in Tanay Rizal to see what progress has been made on our house building side. We should have at least 8 new houses by my calculation.

In June I also hope to start the Virlanie and Marianna Sisters donation of Infant Formula project for street children/ orphans from 0 to 3 years old. This will be donated to us by Matthew Squires CEO of Pacific Healthcare but we must add baby milk bottles and clean water. I hope this project will start in June 2011.

Finally Barangay East Rembo, in Makati, have agreed to host a Job Fair end June 2011 with our club, and for this I will need help from PP Klink and PP Porong who have done this before with Jobs DB.

Mabuhay!