October 28, 2014 Rotary Club of Holy Spirit Club No. 69935 RI District 3780 Philippines Vol. VII No. 13

The Dove

Officers and Members RY 2014-15

MARITES L. NEPOMUCENO President

ANGELITA E. CASTRO PE AND Chair, Membership Development

PP MARCIA C. SALVADOR

Secretary & Chair, Youth Service

PERCIVAL C. ZABALA Treasurer

PP ROCA MARIE JURADO Auditor

RICARDO P. SALVADOR Chair, Club Administration & Co-chair of 6-year Associate Members Pilot Project 2012-2017

PP VIRGINIA ARDEN F. SY Chair, Service Projects

CP LEONIDES S. RESPICIO Chair, The Rotary Foundation

PP PEDRITO M. CONDENO Chair, Public Image & Co-chair of 6-year RI Associate Members Pilot Project 2012-17

FERNANDO M. DELGRA, JR. Chair, Fund Generation

PP EMELINDA C. PALATTAO Club Trainer and Chair, Livelihood

PP DIOGENES S. OSABEL Chair, Literacy

IPP EUI BONG JUNG, OMD Chair, International Understanding

MARYLENE MARTINEZ, DDM Chair, Health & Wellness

IN IL “David” KIM

Chair, Sports

BABES M. BACULA

ARMELIA OXALES BAGAIN

CAROLINE K. BARCINAL

JOCELYN M FLORES

MA. PERPETUAL S. RIVERA

EMMANUEL P. SOLIDUM

JERRY SY

FERDINAND VALBUENA

ANTONIO KENT VALDERRAMA

ESTRELLA C. VALMOCINA

Associate Members (RI Pilot Program)

TYRON KIM

GEORGINA B. UBALDO

Honorary Members PDG DANILO V. FAUSTO

EDMUND CHIU

SALVADOR VIARI

JOSE B DEL ROSARIO JR

FR STEVE TYNAN, MGL

RAMON V. BUNAG

BENJAMIN BAUTISTA

AG Roland Portes

AGR Demetrio Aquino

O f f i c i a l N e w s e B u l l e t i n o f t h e R o t a r y C l u b o f H o l y S p i r i t

OCTOBER is Vocational

Service Month

Status of anti-TB screening in 5 day-care centers in Holy

Spirit as of October 23, 2014

THE DOVE news bulletin may be viewed on the screens of your smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop devices.

Screening in 5th day-care center assigned to RC Holy

Spirit is completed; all 68 kids tested negative for TB

On October 21, 2014, PP Marcia Salvador of RC Holy Spirit and two doctors visited Zebra Yakap Day Care Center in Barangay Holy Spirit for the implementation of the anti-TB pro-gram of District 3780 and the Quezon City gov-ernment.

The day care center is the fifth assigned to RCHS during the October 8

th Zone 2 coordina-

tion meeting. Dr Yvonne Guillermo of the Holy

Spirit Barangay Health Center and Dr Chiu Chen, an intern from the FEU Hospital, checked up the 70 pupils under Teacher Gina Simangan. Fifteen (15) of the toddlers were sent for PPD testing by Nurse Lily de Castro on the same day. As with the scenes from the four day care centers, it was a stressful mo-ment for majority of the kids who feared the sight of the needles. BC President Marites Nepomuceno coordinated the check-up sched-

ule with Teacher Gina. During the event, PP Marcia Salvador assisted in controlling the flow of the children to be checked up by the doctors.

On October 23, 2014, Dr Guillermo and Nurse Lily went back to the day care center to read the results of the PPD tests done on the kids. They were both happy to report that all the kids tested negative for tuberculosis. None could be happier and more relieved, of course, than the parents and Teacher Gina. There was, however, one pupil in the class who was earlier found to have primary complex but already taking the required medications.

Yakap Day Care Centers Pupils Checked Given TB Positive Already under Designated to RC Holy Spirit Enrolled Up PPD Test Result Medication** Mapayapa 80 62 14 2 0 Sto Domingo 72 67 16 1 0 Gilarmi 73 57 13 inc* 0 St Catherine 79 56 24 1 2 Zebra 80 68 15 0 1 384 310 82 4 3 * Need to do a repeat PPD on 6 pupils of Gilarmi DCC. (Test results were not read on scheduled date be-cause they did not report to the health center as instructed.) ** Before start of the District anti-TB project, 3 children (2 in St Catherine DCC and 1 in Zebra DCC) had been given PPD tests at another health facility, were found TB-positive, and are now undergoing medication

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To: Best Class Presidents RY 2014-15 26 October 2014 My dear Classmates and Fellow Rotarians, The Rotary Club of Holy Spirit will be holding a 1-day Chess Tournament dubbed as “CHECKMATE: 3

rd Annual Chess Cup” on November 23, 2014 from 8:00am to 7:00pm to at the 14/F Quezon City

Hall, Quezon City. The tournament is open to all non-rated chess players. Mode of play shall be Swiss system, minimum of seven (7) rounds. FIDE laws of chess shall govern the tournament. Please see details on the next page. May I request for your support to spread the CHECKMATE tournament to your club members. There may be chess enthusiasts in your club who may want to participate by either playing or watching the game. CHECKMATE is not only an opportunity for Rotarians to play chess but also an opportunity to build another level of fellowship: meet non-Rotarians who share the same interest in Chess. Aside from basketball, CHESS is one sport that Filipinos play that cuts across different demographics. It is a sport accessible to anybody regardless of age, social strata, and geographic loca-tion. CHECKMATE is an opportunity to spread and promote the name ROTARY. If you are interested, please send your queries or register your name to rchscheckmate@yahoo.com. I look forward to your support. Best regards, Marites L. Nepomuceno BC President 2014-15 Rotary Club of Holy Spirit RI District 3780 Quezon City, Philippines

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RC Holy Spirit is on . .

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Holy Spirit in District-wide tree-planting to help preserve the environment, 25 October 2014 at the Arboretum Forest

of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City

IPP Dr Bong, Committee Chair JR Delgra and BCP Marites Ne-

pomuceno of RC Holy Spirit hold a seed-piece for planting FB post by BCP Francis Erazo of Biak-na-Bato

shows BCPs as they join hands in planting a tree

DG Sam Pagdilao leads the tree-planting event. Thanks

to FB post by BCP Minda Fe Agustin of Cubao East

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In October 1914, Jonas Salk was born – a man who would change world history by inventing the first effective vaccine against polio. When the vac-cine was introduced in the United States in the 1950s, polls indicated that polio was one of the nation's two greatest fears, second only to the fear of atomic war. And with good reason: In the 1952 U.S. polio epidemic, 58,000 cases were reported, with 3,145 deaths and 21,269 instances of permanent, disabling paralysis. Globally, polio paralyzed or killed up to half a million people every year.

Soon after the Salk vaccine was created, Albert Sabin developed an oral version, allowing tremendous numbers of children to be immunized quickly, safely, and inexpensively. In 1985, Rotary's PolioPlus program was born, with a simple goal: to immunize every child under age five against this crippling disease. Thanks in large part to the initial success of PolioPlus, in 1988 the 166 member states of the World Health As-sembly unanimously set the goal of global polio eradication.

At the time, the idea was breathtakingly ambitious, and many called it impossible. Today, we are closer to this goal than ever before, with only a few hundred cases of polio reported per year, and just three remaining endemic countries. We are on track to achieve full eradication by 2018 – if we can keep up the momentum that has brought us this far.

And this month, we will mark World Polio Day on 24 October, and cele-brate the 100th anniversary of Dr. Salk's birth.

I ask you all to Light Up Rotary this month by doing whatever you can to shine a spotlight on our efforts to eradicate polio. Call your government officials and let them know that polio eradication matters to you. Go to endpolionow.org for inspiring stories about Rotary's work, and share them on social media. And make the best investment you'll ever make, by donating to polio eradication right on the endpolionow.org website and earning a two-to-one match on your contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

When we eradicate polio – and we will – we'll have brought the world into a better future, and Rotary into a better future as well. We will have proved ourselves, as an organization, capable of great things. And we will have given our children and grandchildren a gift that will endure forever: a polio-free world.

Gary C. K. Huang

President 2014-15

Rotary International

Foundation Chairman’s October Message

In each of my monthly messages, I have en-deavored to highlight one individual Rotary Foundation goal for 2014-15.

This month, I wish to speak about the new grant structure and the reasons for its introduction. The Foundation Trustees identified a number of growing needs to improve efficiency, to stream-line operations, and to focus efforts so as to achieve greater impact and public recognition.

Prior to Future Vision, the Foundation was processing over 4,000 grants per year, and the average humanitarian grant was US$12,500. With many of the grants smaller than this figure, the cost to administer the grants was increasing at a significant rate, and we needed more staff to process the growing number of applications.

In addition to striving for improved efficiency, the Trustees aimed for greater simplicity and a more streamlined process. The Rotary Foun-dation had 12 different programs, each with its own requirements and application procedures, to support educational and humanitarian ob-jectives. We now have only two grant types: district grants and global grants.

By simplifying the process, the Trustees hope to enable Rotarians to reach a greater number of people to do good in the world; to provide a more efficient grants-making system, awarding fewer grants and large amounts at a reduced operational cost; and to give clubs and districts more ownership over the grant process.

I urge you to ensure the progress of our new grant structure through your continued participation in our educational and humanitarian pro-jects.

John Kenny

Foundation Trustee Chair

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the

support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

The Rotary Foundation helps fund our humanitar-ian activities, from local service projects to global initiatives. Your club or district can apply for grants from the Foundation to invest in projects and provide scholarships. The Foundation also leads the charge on worldwide Rotary campaigns such as eradicating polio and promoting peace. Rotari-ans and friends of Rotary support the Founda-

tion’s work through voluntary contributions.

Rotary Information - OCTOBER MESSAGES FROM ROTARY LEADERS

RI President’s October Message

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Rotary Information - Watch the inspiring, informative and entertaining

commemoration of World Polio Day last October 24, 2014 on Livestream

WORLD POLIO DAY: HEALTH OFFICIALS LAUD POLIO ERADICATION ACHIEVE-MENTS, POINT TO DISEASE’S ENDGAME

At a special Livestream program -- World Polio Day: Make History Today -- Rotary leaders joined global health experts and celebrity singers to hail the progress of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. After nearly 30 years, the GPEI, which includes Rotary, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda-tion, is on the brink of ending polio by 2018, making it the second infectious disease to be eradicated. "A world without polio is within our grasp more than at any point in the past," said Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, during a video message to the audience. "The po-liovirus continues to lose ground. Next month we will mark two years since the last case of wild poliovirus type 3, giving every appearance of eradication, and leaving only type 1 in the world." Frieden talked about how Nigeria's Polio Emergency Op-erations Center aided in the quick and effective response to the country's Ebola outbreak. Senior officials from the center were sent to Lagos to lead the effort. They opened an Ebola treatment unit and conducted contact tracing with up to 500 people per day.

Rotary General Secretary John Hewko praised the work of the GPEI, calling the organization "perhaps the most ambitious and effective public-private partnership ever assembled." More than 2.5 billion children have been vaccinated since its launch. The annual number of polio cases has fallen from 350,000 in 1988 to 416 in 2013, and 222 so far this year, a remarkable decrease of more than 99 percent. UNICEF estimates that 10 million people would have otherwise been infected, while 1.5 million lives have been saved. Rotary has contributed more than $1.2 billion to polio eradication since taking on the disease in 1979. That amount got a significant boost earlier this week after Ro-tary announced it will provide an additional $44.7 mil-lion toward the polio fight. Reggae star Ziggy Marley, a celebrity End Polio Now am-bassador, opened the event via video welcoming partici-pants and performing a song.

By Ryan Hyland

Rotary News

24-OCT-2014

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The Object of Rotary First formulated in 1910, the Object of Rotary is to encourage and

foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in par-

ticular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for ser-

vice;

SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the

recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the digni-

fying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's per-

sonal, business, and community life;

FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill,

and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional

persons united in the ideal of service.

5 Avenues of Service Based on Object of Rotary, the Five Avenues of Service are Rotary’s phi-losophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:

Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the

effective functioning of the club.

Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their

vocations and to practice high ethical standards.

Community Service covers the projects and activities the club under-

takes to improve life in its community.

International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s

humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world under-

standing & peace.

Youth Service recognizes the positive change implemented by youth

and young adults through leadership development activities, service

projects, and exchange programs.

The Four-Way Test Of the things we think, say or do

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

ROTARIAN’S PLEDGE

I am a Rotarian

I will always uphold the TRUTH.

I am a Rotarian

I will always strive to be FAIR

in all of my dealings with my fellowmen.

I am a Rotarian

I will always endeavor to build

GOODWILL and UNDERSTANDING

in my community,

among my countrymen

and people of all nations.

I am a Rotarian

I will always seek to promote

the greatest good

for the greatest number of people

in the spirit of ROTARY SERVICE.

I am a Rotarian

I will always uphold

the Rotary International Motto,

SERVICE ABOVE SELF.

Principles that Guide Rotary

As a Rotarian, I will

1. Exemplify the core value of integrity in all behaviors and activities

2. Use my vocational experience and talents to serve in Rotary

3. Conduct all of my personal, business, and professional affairs ethically, encouraging and fostering high ethical standards as an example to others

4. Be fair in all dealings with others and treat them with the respect due to them as fellow human beings

5. Promote recognition and respect for all occupations which are useful to society

6. Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my

community

7. Honor the trust that Rotary and fellow Rotarians provide and not do anything that will bring disfavor or reflect adversely on Rotary or fellow Rotarians

8. Not seek from a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship

Rotary Code of Conduct

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