Disaster Relief Mission for Malate fire Victims
Pres. Peter Manzano revived the Paul Harris Kitchen two Saturdays ago to bring much needed help to some 200 families who had losttheir homes in a fire on March 9. The empath in him prompted Pres. Peter to move fast to bring relief to the people who ...
Wheelchair for stroke patient
On the same day, Pres. Peter turned over to Colonel Harold Depositar, PNP Makati Police Chief, a wheelchair meant for a Mrs. Elsa Bibar, who suffered a stroke and whose movement has been impaired. The wheelchair will be handed over to Mrs. Bibar some...
Education Under a New Normal
On January 8, Pres. Peter & First Ann Pam, together with their children, paid a visit to RC Narvacan to turn over 20 Samsung tablets for the use of as many poor but deserving students in their distance learning classes. This project is under the ...
Laying the ground work for Reef Buds Project
“Supporting the Environment” is one of the areas of focus Rotary Clubs are enjoined to apply their time and resources to; it is actually the 7th, added last year to the original six Areas of Focus. It was added in recognition of the existential i...
WATER PROJECT LAUNCHED IN MORONG, BATAAN
President Peter & First Ann Pam Manzano, together with the presidents of RC Paranaque Metro and a few other clubs in District 3830, drove northwest of the metro last Saturday, February 6, for a meeting with their local partner Task Force Moro...
GIVING HOPE, SAVING LIVESCLUB ROLLS OUT GLOBAL GRANT-FUNDED DISTRIBUTION OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT VS COVID-19
As the coronavirus that causes Cov-id-19 continues to wreak havoc on lives and livelihoods everywhere, gov-ernments and private enterprises are doing all they can to fight back. One of the ways to do this is for private entities to provide badly-need...
PRES. PETER, FA PAM JOIN VP LENI ROBREDO ON VISIT TO RCMLEARNING CENTERS
The partnership between RC Makati and the Office of the Vice President that merges the Club’s RCM Learning Center and the OVP’s Community Learning Hub received an affirmative boost on January 21st when Pres. Peter Manzano &...
FEED THE HUNGRY PROJECT KICKED OFF IN TWO PARISHES
We started the year on a b/right note. On the third day of the first month of the new year, we kicked off a new project to help stem hunger among families severely impacted by job losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Aptly named Feed the Hu...
COMPLEMENTARY MILK FEEDING IN CALATAGAN
With the temporary suspension of the supplementary feeding, the Club turned to milk feeding as a complement to the full feeding program in Calatagan, Batangas. Calatagan, it will be recalled, was one of the main sites of the Club’s long-running...
ULYSSES RELIEF MISSION TO CAGAYAN, ISABELA
The damage wrought by Typhoon Ulysses on Cagayan and Isabela was so severe that it warranted a second mission to the place. The RCM disaster relief team had been in Tuguegarao, Cagayan on Nov 17 to deliver much needed essentials to families who had l...
Rotary Homes breaks ground for new site in Muntinlupa
On 30 November, Pres. Peter Manzano joined Rotary Homes Foundation trustees, including Chair Emeritus PDG Sid Garcia, for the ceremonial ground-breaking for a new Rotary Homes site in Putatan, Muntinlupa. The occasion was graced b...
Club supports Community Learning Hubs with donation of computers
Education as an area of focus has always been a top priority for RC Makati. Its passion for education has not dimmed with the drastic changes prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Under its Education Under a New Normal scheme, the Club is partnering wi...
Club partners with YesPinoy Foundation for Riders’ Training Program
The Rotary Club of Makati and YesPinoy Foundation sealed another partnership on December 1, 2020, at the Rotary Club of Makati Head Office for the support of the Foundation’s education-to-livelihood program that seeks to provide employment to worke...
Paul Harris Kitchen: Cooking up meals for typhoon victims
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Pres. Peter’s plan to bring cooked food to families in towns and cities around the metro led him to do some pencil pushing with numbers to see how far his budget would go. He asked for quotations ...
Help Cagayan Relief Mission reaches nearly 2K families
Typhoon Ulysses came 12 days after Category 5 Super Typhoon Rolly whipped Luzon from end to end, causing great damage to houses and public infrastructure and wreaking havoc on lives and livelihoods. Hardly had the people in Rolly’s path started the...
Relief Mission in Bicol in the aftermath of Typhoon Rolly
November has been a challenging month for our country. Perhaps “challenging” does not quite describe it. Because for tens of thousands of Filipino families, November has been nothing short of miserable. The misery started on the very first day...
Bike 2 Work Buddies launched
The Covid-19 pandemic, with all the limitations it has imposed on us, expanding the list of things we cannot do and places we cannot go to, could very well be an excuse for us to slow down or even to all together stop. Instead, it has spurred us to ...
Voters’ Registration Assistance Campaign kicked off
Following the timeline we had set for the three-part joint voter registration program we forged with the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), we launched the voters’ registration assistance campaign last Saturday, October 10, at ...
Basic Education and Literacy Project launched
Last Thursday, September 26, Pres. Peter Manzano and PVP Sherwin Torres of RC Makati Southwest launched a joint project – Basic Education and Literacy Project to provide material assistance to a school in Rodriguez, Rizal and a community of the Dum...
“Light It Forward” LAUNCHED
It is not usual to find Makati Rotarians at the far side of town, such as at the University of the Philippines Oval in Diliman, Quezon City, but there they were, in the middle of the expansive field, at mid-afternoon on August 26—Pres. Peter & ...
Club donates P500K to Stepping Stone
Pres. Peter Manzano and PE Louie Aseoche motored to Sucat, Paranaque last Thursday, July 23, to pay a visit to Stepping Stone, the school for special-needs children that the Club has been supporting for decades and is committed to support in years ah...
Club stages End Polio Walk with Rotaract, RCC
RC Makati joined hands with our two club-sponsored partners—the Rotaract Club of Makati (RAC Makati) and Rotary Community Corps Bukluran (RCC Bukluran) for an End Polio Walk through Camia and Amapola Streets on October 27.The activity aims to raise...
PSP grants-delivery mechanism kicked off
THE PSP is on! PSP, for anyone not in the know, stands for Partnership in Service Program, a facility that this year is making available P10 million for grants to fund projects of partner Rotary Clubs, with priority given to those in District 383...
Club donates 400K to Rotary Homes at Members’ Night
Some 60 supporters of Rotary Homes gathered at the City Club Lounge on Ayala Avenue on October 16 for the Rotary Homes Members’ Night, an annual event aimed at presenting to members an update on the program of the Rotary Homes Foundation and a prog...
Dormitory Project in Bukidnon all set to take off with delivery of P1M club donation
Last October 9, a check for PhP 1 million changed hands from our club, represented by VP Louie Aseoche and Sec. Eddie Galvez, to Dianne Jean Cruz of the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation. A project of the Office of the Vice President, it will be underta...
“Stop TB Now” program kicked off
We have just kicked off a new round of our “Stop TB Now,” the program by which the Club seeks to save young children from the debilitating effects of juvenile tuberculosis, a.k.a. primary complex. This is the third round of treatments funded by a...
Usbong Katutubo Rotary Village launched
All roads led to Porac, Pampanga on the 20th of September as Rotarians from District 3830 motored to the Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University to kick off a project that would bring them together in one community –Usbong Katutubo Rotar...
Relief ops in Itogon, Benguet and Vigan
TYPHOON Ompong, packing winds of over 200 kph, made landfall in Bicol on the 15th of September to wreak havoc over a 900-km area across northern and central Luzon with its weapons of destruction: rains without letup and whipping winds. By the time i...
Feeding program launched in Tanay
THE Sto. Niño Integrated School in Tanay, Rizal is the latest beneficiary of our supplemental feeding program with the launch on September 17 of two modules covering 84 pupils. Tanay is one of a number of our partner communities for the project. Wit...
Relief ops in Lingayen City
HABAGAT (southwest monsoon) inflicted significant damage on many areas in Luzon last month, most notably towns and cities that lie below sea level. One such place is Pangasinan. Last month, Pres. Fred Pascual received a request for assistance from P...
A food-and-bikes day in Bay, Laguna
ON the 5th of September, Pres. Fred & Menchu Pascual, PP Freddie & Jojo Borromeo, and Ferdie Ordoveza motored south of Manila, to Bay, Laguna, for a mid-week day of service. Bay is one of the project sites long served by our Club. Two activi...
BATS goes to Dingalan, Aurora
THE Club has been going places lately. Last September 8, the Books Across the Seas (BATS) Project continued its 2018-2019 run in Dingalan, Aurora where it donated books—530 titles—to the Matawe Elementary School. The donation was a joint activ...
“IamSuper” outreach program launched in Pampanga
We went a-traveling last month and made the most of the service week that is devoted to activities under the umbrella of Community Service. On August 21, a national holiday (Ninoy Aquino Day), Pres. Fred Pascual led a group of Rotarians and Anns o...
RCM responds with Relief Ops in Marikina
August is habagat season in the country, when the southwest monsoon comes a-visiting, with predictable regularity and familiar cruelty. This year, habagat kept its schedule, striking throughout August with rains without letup that led to flooding ...
Sanlakbay Program graduates 8 in San Isidro
The Sanlakbay Program of the San Ildefonso Parish in Makati City has weaned another eight youths from drug dependency, that insidious habit that brings ruin to lives and families. The graduates are among 11 enrolled in the rescue and reformation pro...
Stepping Stone opens PT Center
The Stepping Stone School has a new facility—a Physical Therapy Center designed to address concerns of students with physical limitations or disabilities. Funded by a USD 44,950 grant from the Embassy of Japan, the PT Center was officially turn...
District confers 6-star honors on RC Makati
The Club was once again a recipient of the district’s highest honor—6-Star Club—at the District Awards held on June 4 at the Sofitel Hotel. Without sounding like we’re blowing our horn, we note that the Club has consistent been a consistent ...
Club supports veggie gardening-feeding program
With nutrition being one of the Club’s strongest advocacies, it is no wonder that supplemental feeding for undernourished children has been among our longest-running projects. We just entered into another of its incarnations—feeding and gardening...
Project Liwanag lights up remote Aeta community in Tarlac
It's like a blind person who can see for the first time. That is what it was like last Saturday, April 21, for the Aeta community of Alunan in Tarlac when lights were turned on in their houses, a gift from Project Liwanag, an NGO dedicated ...
Drug rehab program moves forward to Phase 2
The Sanlakbay Program for the rehabilitation of drug users, Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit’s signature project, is moving forward according to plan. Last Friday, 17 March, Pres. Jun Jun led a group of Rotarians—PN Bimbo Mills, Johnny Ang, Sec. Boy Arteche,...
Feeding program goes to Antipolo
The supplemental feeding program, which has nursed to health thousands of young children in many schools and communities, extended its reach to Antipolo on March 2 with the launch of two modules for 60 kids in Brgy. Cupang and Brgy. Dalig. The kids w...
Club runs anti-smoking campaign in Tondo
On January 31, Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit and PDG Pepito Bengzon joined IPP David Ackerman at the Florentino Torres High School in Tondo, Manila to launch another run of the anti-smoking campaign, “Ang Pagbabalik ni Yosi Kadiri.” IPP David is the init...
Club brings help to 468 families in typhoon-ravaged Leyte
DECEMBER is the happiest time of the year for Filipinos, but last year, it was not, at least for the people of Leyte and Samar and neighboring cities and towns called on by an uninvited guest—Typhoon Urduja. Making landfall in Samar on December...
Over 1,050 kids are this year’s “Last Angels”
In RC Makati, there are “angels”– two kinds, actually. The first are the children in our project sites, adopted communities, and select charitable institutions to whom the Club gives presents at Christmas time under our Last Angel Gift Giving P...
“Yosi Kadiri” is back!
That’s right, Yosi Kadiri, is here again, spreading the dire message that smoking is bad because it causes cancer and leads to death. The relaunch took place on November 25 at the Manuel A. Roxas High school in Paco, Manila, with Pres. Jun Jun D...
Church, government, Rotary join hands for Sanlakbay Project
W e're all in this together. No matter how dark one’s past, no one is hopeless. Those two powerful messages resonated loud and clear at the San Sebastian Church on October 21 as over 400 former drug dependents gathered to hear a Mass celebrat...
Drug rehab project kicked off with turnover of donations to Caritas Manila
Every club president has a pet project, one that reflects his most ardent advocacy and a cause he wants to contribute to in a significant way. Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit has chosen as his signature project the rehabilitation and reformation of drug dep...
Rotary Homes library receives books, computers
The library of Rotary Homes Paranaque is now open for business! This came to pass on August 25 with the turnover of a donation of the staples of a library--774 books, 31 bookshelves, computers, tables and chairs. The books and bookshelves were de...
“Stop TB Now” goes to Tacloban
DONT look now but our “Stop TB Now” project is growing wings and going places! Its last stop: Tacloban City in Leyte where 26 children afflicted with tuberculosis started treatment designed to rid them of the disease after six months of daily ...
Reinforcing bonds with RC Kuala Lumpur
Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit led a 10-person RC Makati delegation on a three-day visit to Kuala Lumpur to attend the 90th Installation Banquet of the Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur Diraja on the 12th of August. RCKL is a sister club of ours. Others in the pa...
21-hour trip through ‘Gorio’ and habagat to deliver rehab’d school building on Mt. Pulag
Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit, PP Reggie Nolido, Community Service Dir. Chris Ferareza and Dir. Peter & Pam Manzano with their 3 kids took a quick trip to Mt. Pulag last week for the ceremonial turnover of the rehabilitated Mt. Pulag Elementary School to ...
‘Stop TB Now’ sets foot in Dumaguete City
Pres. Jun Jun Dayrit wanted the Club to hit the ground running, and it has. On the first month of this new Rotary year, with nary a “warm up,” we have been moving forward on a number of fronts, Health, in particular. Last July 14, a Friday, P...
Success Marks 52nd Induction Ball
Lovely weather with nary a hint of rain. Metro traffic kinder to the nerves than usual for a Friday evening. The buzz of excitement as some 240 kindred souls including 12 past district governors and spouses, 12 district officers, 17 Great Presidents,...
Induction 2017 Speeches
SPEECH By DG EDWIN AFZELIUS, JR. Rotary Club of Makati. Manila Pen. 7 July 2017 A pleasant evening to you all. Allow me to greet the revered Past RI Director Paing Hechanova and the rest of your distinguished past district governors, Bert Mo...
Club bags top twin district honors: Most Outstanding Club, Most Outstanding Leadership Award
They saved the best for last. As in the Oscars. And pretty much in all other awards. RC Makati was called last at the District Awards held last Friday, the 23rd of June at the Dusit Thani Manila not because it was the least but because it was “t...
Feeding program adds 90 kids to its beneficiaries roll for the year
The Nutrition Program Committee chaired by PP Freddie Borromeo opened three modules of the feeding program in Brgy. Quisao, Pililia, Rizal last May 26, rounding off to 310 the number of malnourished children served this Rotary year. The three modu...
Distas 2017: Team 2017-2018 gears up for service year ahead
The Club’s 2017-2018 board of directors headed by President-Elect Jun Jun Dayrit are prepping for their year of service with their participation in the District Assembly—better known as Distas. The Distas is the major leadership training event...
“Stop TB Now” goes to Bacolod
“Stop TB Now,” our TB eradication program, is going places, spreading its curative benefits to children whose growth is stunted by tuberculosis in many parts of the country. Pres. David Ackerman, together with project chair PDG Tony Quila &...
Club launches 7th Stop TB Now module under $85K global grant
The Club’s TB Eradication Committee chaired by PDG Tony Quila, in a team-up with the Punta Fuego Village Foundation, our cooperating organization; our daughter club, RC Makati Business District, the San Andres Health Center, medicine supplier Pedia...
Cerebral Palsy Caravan goes to Dumaguete
The Cerebral Palsy Caravan was in Dumaguet City on April 18-22 for its third and final leg, five days of raising awareness of and support for children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. The first stop was in Hagonoy, Bulacan on January 10-12...
Service and Adventure on Mt. Pulag
It was a first, something to look forward to and prepare for, if not physically, mentally at least. Five Rotarians signed up—Pres. David Ackerman, IPDG Pepito Bengzon, PP Reggie Nolido, PND Bimbo Mills, and Dir. Chris Ferareza. Leaving Manila at mi...
Club conducts Career Guidance Seminar for 52 Rotaractors
The Vocational Service directorate under Dir. Philip Soliven organized a career guidance seminar on March 26 for 52 Rotaractors from seven Rotaract Clubs— Makati West, Makati Legaspi, Alabang Daang Hari, Kabataang West Rembo, Sto. Nino Paranaque, S...
ROTARY HOMES opens e-library and health center
Rotary Homes (RH) is getting closer and closer to a state of self-containment, a community with its basic needs covered—decent shelter for its resident families, electricity, clean water flowing from taps, pathways with ornamentals, a multi-faith c...
‘Yosi Kadiri’ Anti-Smoking Campaign launched
The Anti-Smoking Campaign got off to a rousing start on March 16 at the Tandang Sora National High School in Quezon City. With 39 Bb. Pilipinas candidates in attendance, it had a distinctly upbeat air that got everyone excited and expectant. The star...
Club reaches out to earthquake-torn Surigao
The day after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Surigao in the evening of Friday, the 10th of February, the Club’s diligent Community Service team went to work. The Rotary network was put to good use once again, as it always is in times of calamity,...
