Club History

ROTARY CLUB OF CAINTA BROOKSIDE HILLS
RY 2006-2007 Major Thrusts

AVENUE: COMMUNITY SERVICE

A. Literacy and Education

Project: Teaching Methods Enhancement for RIC Instructors
Objective: To enhance the participants’ pedagogic skills primarily through hands-on training on the formulation of innovative teaching methods as well as on the preparation of effective instructional materials.

Target Beneficiaries: Public pre-school / day care teachers and instructors
Timeline: September to November, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php7,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Send out invitations to potential participants.
2. Screen participants’ eligibility and come up with the final list for endorsement to MCCSC.

Project: “An Evening with Story Tellers”: A Reading Program
Objective: To promote reading as an enjoyable and effective learning experience among children.

Target Beneficiaries: open to all children of ages 5 – 7 years
Timeline: November to December, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php5,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Locate a conducive venue for the activity and coordinate schedule.
2. Design and prepare the program mechanics to include scripts, methodology and staging
3. Prepare a simple souvenir kit that will reinforce the take-home values to be derived from the activity
4. Identify potential sponsors
5. Conduct an information dissemination campaign (IDC) to promote the activity

Project: Reference Books & Materials Distribution
Objective: To augment the inventory of teaching/instructional materials available to the Dominican Laity of Cainta in support of their community literacy outreach program.

Target Beneficiaries: Dominican Laity of Cainta
Timeline: 4th Quarter, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php2,000.00

Action Plan:
1. Launch “A Million Books, A Million Readers” at the District Level (with RCCBH acting as lead club) in partnership with Scholastic Books.
2. Draw up projects mechanics to include drop-off points, schedules, volume quotas (if any), etc.
3. Publicize the Drive within the District.
4. Register with existing book drives (local or international) as possible supplementary sources of reference books/educational materials donation.

B. Water Management

Project: Potable Filtration System Installation
Objective: To reduce (if not eliminate) the probability of contaminated water intake and to improve the overall quality of drinking water available to students of selected marginalized schools within the Club’s general community.

Target Beneficiaries: 5,000 to 6,000 students (initial)
Timeline: September, 2006 to June, 2007
Estimated Cost: Php75,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Conduct required ocular survey and testing to identify urgent and feasible sites for filtration system installation (initial allocation is for 5 units).
2. Formalize the necessary agreements with school-beneficiaries.
3. Prepare and implement a periodic monitoring scheme for all installed units.
4. Generate required funding to finance the Project’s second batch of installation.
5. Continue building database of eligible school-beneficiaries.

C. Health and Hunger

Project: Mobile Soup Kitchen: Nutritional Supplementation
Objective: To supplement the required nutritional intake among public elementary school students initially through a twice-a-week feeding program.

Target Beneficiaries: public elementary school students of age 5-7 years
Timeline: July, 2006 onwards
Estimated Cost: Php280,000.00

Action Plan:
1. Formulate, in conjunction with a professional nutritionist, a standard diet plan that conforms to the target beneficiaries’ required nutritive intake (i.e., RDA, caloric intake, etc.)
2. If required, secure all permits/licensed from the concerned regulatory bodies (LGU, DSWD, etc.)
3. Coordinate with school officials for the implementation of a periodic diagnostics program that will document health improvements vis-à-vis established indicators.
4. Step up drive to solicit cash or in-kind donations to augment the feeding program’s material requirements.

Project: Medical Mission – “Silip-Mata”
Objective: To provide free eye consultation (i.e., cataract screening) and free prescriptive lenses to the indigent senior citizens of Sitio Bulao suffering from visual impairment.

Target Beneficiaries: indigent senior citizens of Sitio Bulao
Timeline: 4th Quarter, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php10,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Conduct an awareness campaign on proper eye care (i.e., early detection of eye disorder symptoms, prevention, etc.) to dovetail with the Project.
2. Negotiate w/ suppliers of prescriptive lenses for a socialized pricing (or possibly donations).
3. Conduct a community-based IDC.

Project: Anti-Rabies Vaccination
Objective: To minimize if not eradicate rabies infection and at the same time promote responsible pet ownership among the residents of BHS.

Target Beneficiaries: BHS residents
Timeline: March, 2007
Estimated Cost: Php2,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Identify strategic sites within BHS and coordinate schedules.
2. Secure anti-rabies vaccine for at least 300 cases.
3. Conduct an IDC at least a month prior to Project date.
4. Assist in the campaign to impound stray dogs within the community.

Project: Dengue Prevention Campaign & Fumigation
Objective: To prevent dengue fever outbreak within the general BHS community.

Target Beneficiaries: BHS and immediate environs
Timeline: July, 2006
Estimated Project Cost: Php2,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Identify critical/high risk areas that require fumigation.
2. Coordinate with LGU officials for schedules.
3. Conduct an IDC through flyering.

AVENUE: VOCATIONAL SERVICE

Project: Computer Functional Literacy and Vocational Training Program
Objective: To equip beneficiaries with basic proficiency on various computer applications to prepare them for: a) more specialized computer- or IT- related courses should they decide to pursue college education; or b) employment that requires such skills as entry qualifications.

Target Beneficiaries: indigent high school students
Timeline: February, 2007
Estimated Cost: Php90,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Conceptualize, design and develop a multi-module training package in consultation with Accenture.
2. Develop a comprehensive program mechanics to include the formulation of eligibility criteria, screening process, performance standards and monitoring, and post-program evaluation.
3. Coordinate with schools for the necessary IDC and possibly the set-up of pre-qualification procedures.
4. Based on the results of the pilot run, develop a model that can be replicated at the Zone and District levels.

Project: Career Guidance & Orientation Seminar
Objective: To provide senior high school students with sound professional advice to help them make informed decisions on career choices, business opportunities & employment options.

Target Beneficiaries: senior high school students
Timeline: January to February, 2007
Estimated Cost: Php2,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Assemble a speakers’ pool that represents the widest possible range of professional, business and vocational options for students.
2. Conduct a series of career conferences or classification talks as an ancillary program that will coincide with the Computer Functional Literacy and Vocational Training Program screening schedules.
3. Conduct IDC as appropriate.

AVENUE: CLUB SERVICE

A. Rotary’s Public Image

Project: DISTAS 2007 Co-Hosting w/ RC Cainta
Objective: To effectively expand the Club’s sphere of involvement, and gain from the experience of actual project planning, coordination and implementation at the District level.

Timeline: preparations to commence in August, 2006
Estimated Cost: (separate from the Club 2006-2007 budget)
Action Plan:
1. Closely coordinate with RC Cainta on all aspects of events planning and preparation.
2. Appoint members to represent the Club in the various working committees.
3. Come up with a logistics plan for IDC (i.e., actual visits to the different Rotary Clubs assigned to RCCBH).

Project: Rotary Corner / 4-Way Test Marker / Bulletin Board
Objective: To enhance public awareness on the role of RC as an agent of positive social change; specifically, to reinforce the perception on RCCBH as a “working”, credible and community-friendly socio-civic organization; further, to serve as a subliminal IDC medium for new member recruitment.

Timeline: October to December, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php25,000
Action Plan:
1. Select strategic location/s for a permanent billboard to ensure maximum visibility.
2. Conceptualize and prepare the necessary mechanicals.
3. Draw up possible sub-lease schemes with interested advertisers/sponsors for additional revenue generation.

B. Fund Management

Project: DISTAS 2007 Pre-Event Invitational Golf Tournament
Objective: To raise additional funds to finance the Club’s other service projects.

Timeline: April, 2007
Estimated Cost: (separate from the Club 2006-2007 budget)
Action Plan:
1. Coordinate closely with the tournament venue management for schedules, costs and all other aspects of event planning and preparation.
2. Publicize and aggressively promote the event (also to drumbeat interest for the DISTAS) to both Rotarian- and non-Rotarian golfers alike.
3. Aggressively solicit major corporate sponsorships.

Project: RTW Retailing
Objective: To raise additional funds to finance the Club’s other service projects.

Timeline: December, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php5,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Formalize an agreement with a garment manufacturer for the consignment of export overruns.
2. Identify a strategic location for a flea market set-up.
3. Conduct IDC as appropriate.

C. Membership Growth Development & Retention

Project: Bring-A-Friend
Objective: To meet the Club’s target of increase membership to 30 by end of RY 2006-2007.
Timeline: Continuing
Estimated Cost: -o-
Action Plan:
1. Implement an effective IDC that highlights the privileges and benefits of becoming a Rotarian.
2. Actively pursue corporate sponsorships/advocacy tie-ins in service projects as a way of increasing awareness and eliciting interest in Rotary membership among corporate professionals.
3. Give special recognition to current members who have successfully recruited new members.
4. Encourage members to commit and actively participate in as many service projects as possible.
5. Aggressively push for the rejoining of former members.

Project: Spouses’ Monthly Learning Program
Objective: To promote fellowship and commitment to greater service involvement among Rotarian spouses.

Timeline: to commence in August, 2006
Estimated Cost: Php10,000.00
Action Plan:
1. Institutionalize a monthly learning activity to be spearheaded by the spouses’ group.
2. Encourage the attendance and more active participation of spouses during fellowship activities.

AVENUE: INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Project: The Rotary Foundation
Objective: To increase the number of Paul Harris Fellows from 3 to 5, and the number of TRF sustaining members from 6 to 10 by the end of RY 2006-2007.

Timeline: continuing
Estimated Cost: -o-
Action Plan:
1. Offer a “Lay-Away” Plan that will allow members to amortize the required contribution for PHF.

Project: On to Salt Lake City
Objective: To send at least two (2) Club delegates to the 2007 District Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Project: On to Incheon Juan, South Korea
Objective: To strengthen sisterhood ties with RC Incheon Juan by sending at least two (2) delegates to represent the Club in RCIJ’s anniversary celebration.