My Dear Fellow PeaceBuilders, I would like to personally invite each of you (and your respective clubs, if possible), to join me in a meaningful disability project that I am chairing, which will surely make a profound impact on the lives of its target participants. On Sunday, November 30th (beginning at one in the afternoon until 5:30 pm), at the Rizal Highschool Alumni Hall in Pasig City, we shall be having the 2014 SPASTICITY SUMMIT, with the theme: Delivering Hope for Some of Lifes More Serious Complications. There is no club assessment to be a partner in this project. Neither will there be for us, if Pres. Ben and the board would decide for us to participate as a league. The Spasticity Summit is a world-class lay forum where internationally-renowned Filipino experts in the field of neurology, child neurology, rehabilitation medicine, orthopaedics and developmental paediatrics shall discuss advances in promoting development, recovery and a better quality of life for those with the said condition. The target participants include: cerebral palsied individuals and children, their parents, stroke survivors, persons with brain and spinal cord injury, their spouses (or children), their carers. Occupational and physical therapists together with physicians with an interest in neurorehabilitation and spasticity are also invited. Now all thats needed is for your club to join this unique and wonderful opportunity for service is to confirm with me, as soon as possible, your clubs participation - and your heart-warming commitment to fulfil the key responsibilities of a co-presentor as follows: 1) Help promote the event in your community/area/zone - in churches, hospitals, barangay halls, malls, etc. - to help reach out to the target audience and maximise their participation (we shall provide soft copies of the standard promotional materials, which you could print on your own, as announcement tarps and posters, with your club name added; we will also appreciate if you also have members who can help by arranging for the event to be announced on radio, TV or the newspapers). 2) Mobilize your club members to physically assist your invited participants, provide transportation to get to the venue (you may have to literally carry some of them inside) - and take them back home after. 3) Perhaps help in providing some additional modest afternoon snacks (we will be preparing some too - probably just a drink and a sandwich) for your invited participants (though we wouldnt mind if youd take along additional snacks to share with the rest of the audience). Because of its uniqueness and potential impact, DG Marilou Co has expressed her immense interest for a district-wide participation in this event, when this was presented to her. So do let me know, if you have any additional suggestions on how you would be able to better serve and participate in this project. (You may wish to donate some raffle prizes for the participants to make it a livelier affair!) Our lead partners in this activity shall be the Philippine Society of NeuroRehabilitation and the Rizal High Alumni Association. Please feel free to share this post elsewhere in order to help us drum up interest. You may confirm directly through this thread or a private message. I would be very much delighted and appreciative if we could have our PeaceBuilder League itself as a co-presentor in the 2014 SPASTICITY SUMMIT - as I am myself a proud PeaceBuilder! I leave you with photos of the very first SPASTICITY SUMMIT held in 2005 to give you an idea of the tremendous impact of this project (please click on the link below). The most recent one we had as PSNR was just earlier this month last October 4 at Cagayan De Oro.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:49:22 +0000
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