Raniag The Official Magazine of Rotary Club of Narvacan March 2022 Edition, Rotary Year 2021-2022
Life Changing Team Serve To Change Lives
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RaniagFEATURES
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FREE SPACE NIKKO MARIE REYES ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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I think the most important thing we should be teaching young girls today is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young girls and women for a very long time not because we don’t want to, but because of what society has labelled us to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and we should be given every opportunity. Nothing is more important as taking up space and cementing yourself.” (Zozibini Tunzi, 2019)
The world is seeing a clearer picture of women taking up space since the start of formal initiative of empowering women from the mid 80’s to early 90’s. These efforts are rapidly crossing borders to reach every corner of the world bringing the ideologies of the modern universe, a space- loving universe. According to known feminists, the fight towards womanhood is still a tough fight up to date. They claim that the process of empowerment can usefully be captured in the metaphor of a journey travelled along pathways, one on which women can travel alone or in the company of others, through terrain that may be pitted with thorny thickets, fast-flowing rivers, mud and marshes, and along paths that can double-back on themselves, meander on winding side-routes and lead to dead-ends, as well as opening up new vistas, expanding horizons and extending possibilities. Looking into how equality for women is captured, we have to admit that we need more efforts to clear their paths and secure their safety voyage. If in this picture we see a safer travel for women when they are alone, why give them a company that would just put them at risk? Creating a safe space for women in this modern time is a risk. Yet, this risk is worthy since we are creating a more acceptable and a more welcoming society for them. Look, let us try to put Juana into the shoes of Juan to see it clearer. She will go out freely every day, drink beer, go out with boys and dress like Beyonce. She will go home late at night, be more welcoming to people and be as free as him. Would you look at her as decent one? Well, do you agree if I say, that is really the problem? Decency. We cannot separate this from our longlived Filipino culture, a culture that already established the standards on how we should look at women. A culture that limited women long ago in discovering their fullest potential. This is the culture that developed men to be more free-spirited that women, to be more authoritative that women and to be more powerful that women. This is the same culture that made women courageous enough to come out from the cage they were once captives. While we give women the desk for CEO, a seat in government, a position in sports and in other fields, we should also not to forget giving them an open mind. The
struggle here is not really in the outside world. The real struggle is really within these women caged from the dictates of culture, chained by the rules of religion, confined by the limitations of human thinking. Let us not allow ourselves to live within the dictates of history. Instead, let us live by the lessons of these events. Gabriela Silang did not go to war to fight for liberation because she wanted to prove her worth as a woman but because she believes that this is the right thing to do. Miriam Defensor Santiago did not become famous because she is a woman but because she did her job well as a senator of the Republic. Apo Wang-od did not become a national artist because she is a woman but because she is excellent in her field of art. These women are like men and they need eyes that will look at them as human beings, capable of doing what they believe is right for them and for the greater population. This is a journey. Our life is a journey. The journey of women towards living a life is tougher than that of a man since they battle within themselves by proving their worth to the society they live. If we wish to accompany them, we should leave our baggage of negative thinking, judgmental intuition and our limited concept of equality. These traits will just burden us in understanding their world and the possibility of ruining their voyage. It is never too late to remove the label we placed for women. We all are stepping at the same space in the surface of the earth- even if we are trekking different paths. At the end of the day, we all have the same goal, to live a life the way we wanted it to be.
Endorse theWomen’s Empowerment Principles
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https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/ action/womens-principles
Take action across all seven Principles: 1. Principle 1: Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality
2. Principle 2: Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination
3. Principle 3: Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers 4. Principle 4: Promote education, training and professional development for women 5. Principle 5: Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women
6. Principle 6: Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy
7. Principle 7: Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality
These principles are the result of collaboration between the UN Global Compact and UN Women, and are adapted from the Calvert Women’s Principles. They are informed by real-life business practices and input gathered from across the globe. These Principles also can inform other stakeholders, including governments, as they engage with business.
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2022 National Women’s Month Celebration The Rotary Club of Narvacan is enjoined to pursue the common vision of inspiring and empowering women and girls to be agents of change and contribute to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of all women. The annual celebration of the Women’s Month is from March 1 to 31 and subsequently served as a venue to feature women’s achievements and discuss continuing and emerging women’s empowerment and gender equality issues and concerns, challenges, and commitments. The recurring theme “We Make Change Work for Women” will focus on the sub-theme “Agenda ng Kababaihan, Tungo sa Kaunlaran” which will be a celebration of women exercising their choices, taking chances to make their voices heard, and benefitting from and trailblazing changes. It is a celebration of Filipino women’s power to take the narrative, raise priority issues that matter to them, and call for concrete actions.
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LILIA
CHITA
MELODY
ESTELA
FAYINNA
GIGI
GLO
DIANA
YAPAZ
CHARITO
MALOU
MABEL
ELLEN
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Mangan Tayo Project The Rotary Club of Narvacan had its “Mangan Tayo” Share a Meal Project for the month of February and shared their meal with a group of young people from Narvacan Ilocos Sur who accepted the “Sibog Ti Nyog Challenge” by watering the coconuts planted along the shoreline of Bulanos-Sulvec Narvacan Road . The club once again shared the food they personally prepared as a way of showing their oneness with the people in the community. Rotary’s compassionate service once again was emphasized through this activity.
RYLA 2022
The Rotary Club of Narvacan, Rotaract Clubs of ISCC, and NArvacan and Interact Clubs of Narvacan joined the RYLA 2022 last March 3-5, 2022. Members of the Clubs happily attended and participated in the said event via the zoom platform. This activity provided them the opportunity to expand their perceptions and ideals. RYLA participants gained knowledge about themselves and learned to work with others in order to become better persons and future leaders.
TRF Banquet
The Rotary Club of Narvacan joined the TRF Banquet of District 3790 last March 12, 2022, at Kaisa Hall Tarlac City. The gathering is dedicated to recognizing and honoring Rotarians who shared and contributed to the TRF in support of Rotary’s cause. Amongst the honorees during the event were Rotarians from RC Narvacan namely: PP Edwin Concepcion Jr., (PHF+5), AG Gigi Tesoro-Ramos (PHF+2), Rtn. Melody Cadacio (PHF) and Rtn Maribel Corrales (PHF).
Free Tuli at Gupit
In line with its endeavor to promote the health and well-being of the residents as well as to provide quality health care services, especially to the indigent families in the community, the Rotary Club of Narvacan conducted its Libreng Tuli and Gupit Project last March 20, 2022, at Holy Nativity Clinicnand Lying in Marga-ay Narvacan, Ilocos Sur. Aside from the free circumcision and haircut, beneficiaries were also given free medications after the operation. The significant others accompanying the clients were given instructions on the prescribed dosage of the medication together with pertinent health teachings on post-circumcision care.
Buntis Day 2022 The Rotary Club of Narvacan had its “Mangan Tayo” Share a Meal Project for the month of February and shared their meal with a group of young people from Narvacan Ilocos Sur who accepted the “Sibog Ti Nyog Challenge” by watering the coconuts planted along the shoreline of Bulanos-Sulvec Narvacan Road . The club once again shared the food they personally prepared as a way of showing their oneness with the people in the community. Rotary’s compassionate service once again was emphasized through this activity.
Brotherhood Agreement
In pursuance of the Object of Rotary to encourage and foster the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service, RC Narvacan renewed its Brothers Club Agreement with RC Makati last March 17, 2022. This endeavor will ensure the continued promotion of friendship and brotherly understanding, cooperation between the two clubs on projects and/or activities of common interest among others. RC Makati is represented by President Luis Angel Aseoche, while RC Narvacan is headed by Pres Gilbert Cadacio.
Women’s Month
E D I TO R I A L B O A R D RICADEL S. LIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NIKKO MARIE REYES ASSOCIATE EDITOR DAN JANNIEL ANTOLIN LAYOUT ARTIST EMILIO G. AYSON JR. RC-NARVACAN SECRETARY
MHELYGENE TESORO-RAMOS
CONSULTANT, ASSISTANT DISTRICT GOVERNOR CLUSTER 1A, DISTRICT 3790
GILBERT CADACIO
CONSULTANT, RC-NARVACAN PRESIDENT