Rcgm Project Lovee

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ON-GOING FLAGSHIP PROJECT

OF RC GREENMEADOWS

PROJECT LOVEE

RC Greenmeadows adopted the poor communities of Tabaco

and Lipat-Lipat, Barangay Hulo, Pililla, Rizal composed of

farmers, farm workers, and other persons from areas with

peace and order problems such as Samar and Bicol provinces

who relocated to Metro Manila but eventually got displaced.

These people were considered by the Bureau of Census and

Statistics as the poorest of the poor Filipinos with annual

incomes of P 12,000.00 or less. They do not have the resources

to provide the basic necessities of living nor the source of

steady income to nance the education of their children. Thus,

the communities in these areas became the breeding places

of not only delinquent children but also trouble maker adults.

Early marriages and separations, fatherless or motherless

uneducated children, drug addiction, theft and anti-social

behaviors were common, driving the residents deeper into

the quagmire of poverty and hopelessness. The Rotary Club of

Greenmeadows (RCGM) decided to adopt these communities

and transformed them into a Rotary Community Corps (RCC).

To respond to this dire situation, the club launched its agship

project called Project LOVEE (Livelihood projects, Outreach

programs, Value formation, Environment and Education).

Project LOVEE is a total approach to transform the

community from the poorest of the poor residents to self-

sufcient and respectable communities.

The following activities over the years of Project LOVEE with

the Rotary Community Corps as partners are:

1. Livelihood Projects

To better provide for the basic needs of the

community, the Rotary club of Greenmeadows

organized the Rotary Community Corps (RCC) of Hulo,

Pililla, Rizal to assist the Rotarians in implementing

the planned community development projects.

The RCCs 100 members compose of farmers and theirwives were given seminars on cultivation of high value

crops rather than the traditional rice, corn, potatoes and

cassava. A Food and Drug Administration approved plant

was set-up to buy and process their produce. Members

of the RCC are hred as workers. Finished products are sold

under the brand name Uncle Toms. Label states that this

is a livelihood project of the Rotary Community Corps of

Hulo supported by the Rotary Club of Greenmeadows

District 3780. The club through its Community Service

Projects Committee assists in marketing the products.

A farmers cooperative was organized to better coordinate

the activities. A municipal agriculturist through the effortsand resources of the club was requested from the municipa

mayor to assist the cooperative and to teach the farmers

to plant high-value short-gestation crops. Members have

undergone training for what crops to plant, when to plant

and where to plant for best results.

The RCC is now engaged in egg plant production, tomato

production, sweet corn and hybrid cucumber and preserved

cucumber and jams. These are higher value short-gestation

crops which are more protable for RCC to market

ROTARICE First project for nancing

marginal farmers and introduction of

Hybrid rice cultivation.

Other previous livelihood projects were:

Free Range Chicken: Sasso Range

Chicken from France to improve

native chicken breed.

Rotary Community Corps with above livelihood project


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Deep Well with Generator from Matching Grant Project

Regular Catechism sessions

Regular tree planting activity.

Club is now coordinating with the Land Bank of the

Philippines. This will empower the members by providing

them with credit facility for access to cheap capital to

invest in some farm equipment.

2. Outreach Projects

Our club conducts yearly medical/dental and optical

missions to provide for free consultations, medicines,

dental care and tooth extractions, eye examinations andfree eyeglasses. There is also at least an annual food,

clothing and gift giving project. Through Matching Grant

65310 participated in by the Rotary Club of Brighton

North, Rotary Club of Gladstone South and Rotary Club of

Adelaide (Australian clubs), potable water and electricity

are provided to Hulo Elementary and High School with the

installation of a deep well and generator set.

Our Rotary Community Corps were on hand to prepare

above projects and their orderly executions. They provide

manual labor assistance in clearing the areas and the

actual implementation of the matching grant project itself.

3. Value Formation

Catechists were invited to foster love of God, country

parents and the elderly. Seminars were conducted by

experts regarding Old Filipino Values such as respect

and love of parents and elders, honesty, courtesy, and

being humble and respectful.

4. Environment Care and Protection

Club conducted seminars on waste segregation andconversion of biodegradable waste to fertilizer. RCC

undertook tree-planting on the slope of the mountain

near the schoolhouse and clean-up of the creek to avoid

polluting the source of drinking water.

The community was encouraged to stop the practice o

burning leaves, tires, etc. as it contributes to ozone layer

destruction. They were also encouraged to build toilets

for each home to stop throwing out of the windows

their human waste called ying saucers. A pathway to

the communitys drinking/washing water source was

constructed through bayanihan. Rotary Club of Esslingen

Am Neckar of Germany donated P 40,000.00 to this projectThe RCC planted 200 narra and mahogany trees at the

back of the school building to prevent soil erosion and

landslide that can endanger the students. Also planted

were additional hundreds of narra and mahogany trees

on vacant unproductive areas for future generations.

A couple from the RCC were made to attend a seminar on

proper waste disposal. They engaged also in the cleaning

and removal of garbage in the creeks and rivers near their

area.

RCC campaigned to discourage people from using

electricity and poison to sh in rivers and creeks since these

Officers of RC Greenmeadows Community Corps

Members of Alahas Cooperative


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A view of the bald vacant area before After the tree planting by the RCC

Award from the Department of Education

substances kill small and big shes. RCC discouraged their

sons and daughters from killing birds, snakes, lizards, etc.,

especially endangered species like iguana, monitor lizards

and the like. RCC campaigned against the indiscriminate

cutting of trees for charcoal.

5. Education

The community is located 4 kilometers away from the

nearest school. There were less than 20 children going to

school because of the distance and lack of funds to go toschool. Problems of early marriages and separation, drug

addiction, petty thievery and other crimes were common.

A school was started in a 9 x 5 meters chicken house with

90 students. It went up to 120 in the second year and with

the construction of school buildings reached more than

800 in 20092010. More than one thousand students are

expected to enroll in school year 20132014. The school

was cited as number one in learning growth in 2008 out of

57 schools in the region.

This all started when RC Greenmeadows requested the

local government to provide a 5,000 sq. m. area for the

construction of school buildings to be donated by the

Rotary Club of Greenmeadows. A ve-room school building

with toilets was constructed. RC Greenmeadows also

donated chairs, teachers tables, platform, blackboard and

books for the library. Funds came from contributions of the

members and friends. Encouraged by this civic action, the

Department of Education constructed an 8-room conrete

elementary school building and another 8-room building

for high school. Today, there are 21 modern classrooms.

Club donated ten brand new computers each for the

elementary school and high school complete with printers,

computer tables and chairs. The municipal government on

its part built a multi-purpose covered court.

Club usually grants full scholarship for the top ve (5

students of each class - 30 Elementary students (Grades 1 to

6) and 20 high school students. There are half scholarships

for poor but deserving students who could not have

continued schooling without Rotary assistance for a tota

of 120 students in Elementary and 50 High school students

For Pre-schoolers, the club advances the cost of setting up

25 students for their Prep School. Additionally, the club

gives nancial rewards to top 3 grade 6 students and top 3

fourth year high school graduates in the amount of P 1,500

P 1,000 and P 500 for the valedictorians, salutatorians and

rst honorable mentions, respectively. Altogether there

are a total of 251 student-recipients.

Signicantly, the school is now ranked by the Departmen

of Education # 1 in Pililla and #3 in the District, in terms of

the quality of their students.

Needless to say, the beneciaries and communities with the help

of the Rotary Community Corps are very grateful to our club

who has changed the lives of people with the long term benets

extended. Indeed this is a WOW project, with clapping gratefu

beneciaries, a work of love under Project LOVEE.Club Members at Inauguration of First Classrooms

The first school established was a chicken house for 90 students

School built by government at

instance of RCGM

80 scholars of RCGM selected

from the top 10% of each grade

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