Message of Kiwanis Club of Lebac President-Elect 2014 I would like first to take this opportunity to thank all of you, especially our special guests and our fellow kiwanians from other clubs for joining us this evening. This activity would have not been more meaningful and memorable without you. In deed we are deeply honoured by your presence and for gracing this activity. The Kiwanis Club of Lebac after its formal organization of its charter members on March 8, 2012, performed very well in promoting the well being and welfare of the children in lebak and in adjacent municipalities. For 2 years and 3 months of its existence, the Kiwanis club of lebac have accomplished significant undertakings in serving the children in the communities in this remote area. To wit, the club’s “BALAY NI JOSE” feeding program, in most part, has given various opportunities for the club to explore and discover the condition of depressed and needy children, and in turn served and benefited more than two hundred children in selected five barangays in lebak, sultan kudarat, and other hundreds of children in Kalamansig, also in sultan kudarat and Upi, Maguindanao. It participated in outreach program that benefited about 200 IP children in lebak and kalamasig, collaborated with LGUs, and other partner agencies in providing slippers, school supplies and gifts. It supported youth sports programs to provide rare and unique opportunities for selected youth in lebak to participate and compete in with other leading schools in Manila through the Philippine Marine Football for Peace Program. Not only that, the Kiwanis club of lebak also proved itself as a responsible partner in promoting peace and development as it become actively involved in community-based projects focusing on its primary task, the children and the youth, and in the protection of the environment by participating in mangrove planting in the municipality of lebak. In addition, the club, not only fulfilled its duties but also displayed its unwavering support to the larger Kiwanis organization by participating in the 37th Kiwanis Philippine South District Convention in Roxas City, Capiz in September 2012. In all these things, more than the friendships they shared and built together, the Kiwanians of lebak found their valuable lessons and satisfactions in fulfilling their individual social responsibility by taking part in honourable and noble projects in serving the poor and needy children in the area. Congratulations to the Kiwanis club of Lebac, well done! Of course, part of the program this evening will be the recognition of our distinguished kiwanian. Indeed, the occasion this evening would not be made complete without paying tribute to the outstanding leaderships and service of my predecessor, Kiwanian Brigadier General Alexander Ferrer Balutan AFP, the Charter president of the Kiwanis club of lebac, who first established the club and made the progress to what it is now. Sir, on behalf of the members of the Kiwanis club of lebac, I would like to thank you sir for setting the pace of noble service and for your creativity in leading the Kiwanis club of lebac for almost two years. More power to you sir! Today, we are formally installing the new sets of officers for our club to continue the work and service for the children in our area. We are also inducting new members to augment our workforce and to be able to build a stronger “partnership of the willing” in fulfilling our mandate as kiwanians in serving the children of the future. As we take our oath of office, I am deeply honoured and happy to accept the leadership, responsibility and challenges as the 2nd President of the Kiwanis club of lebac. I am fully aware of the important role that I will play to be able to encourage, engage and lead my fellow kiwanians to serve the children in our community. I pledge my dedicated service and sincere commitment to pursue creative and significant programs for the Club. In fact, we have adopted this year’s theme: “ We serve to touch the lives of Children” to be able to provide direction and focus on what we can do and how we will do to fulfil our tasks as a responsible member of the Kiwanis to give our share of talents, time and resources for the needy and poor children in our area as we touch their lives through our givings, love, care and attention. Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” In doing so, I am also counting on to each member to give their equal or greater commitment and share the heart of service to make it possible for the children within the area of our influence, to have the right to life and hope for the future. In my concurrent capacity as Commander of 1st Marine Brigage, I find this prestigious Kiwanis organization, as an added opportunity for me to harness significant support and build partners for peace and development. I am more than elated to serve the people of your community, knowing that I will be surrounded and supported with fellow kiwanians who have joined together as “partners of the willing” in promoting and fulfilling their social responsibility to the club and to the community they belong. As I come to the end of my message, let me read to you some social responsibility quotes from two prominent personalities of their time. This is to both encourage and challenge everyone here especially my fellow kiwanian of lebac: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he said, “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, she stated that “Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. To my fellow kiwanians, we have a choice… to make a life for our children in our own community. It entails individual social responsibility, which includes the significant engagement of each person towards the community where he lives, which can be expressed as an interest towards what’s happening in the community, as well as in the active participation in the solving of some of the local problems. And we in the security sector, are actively participating and engaging in this civic society organization in as much as we are equally interested in addressing social issues with the hope that it might not lead anymore to potential security problems later. As such, each of us could take part in that noble endeavor in different ways. Being socially responsible not only requires participating in socially responsible activities like giving, volunteering and mentoring, but to actually make it a lifestyle. Only through a commitment to embrace and embed social responsibility into your personal value and belief system can you truly become socially responsible in all you do. May we have all the pleasant evening. Mabuhay ang Kiwanis! May God bless us all! Kiwanian Col Emmanuel B Salamat PN(M)(GSC) President
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:00:32 +0000
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