The month of September will be marking the 9th year since our club was chartered. Our club composed mostly of young professionals and college students and it’s sponsored by the Rotary Club of Quezon City Central. The club envisions a diverse group of young individuals to serve the society. In addition, we aim to equip and nurture every youth with skills, knowledge, wisdom and integrity that will help potential members to grow and build professional competency.
We have 35 declared members on the website of Rotary. Out of the total population of the club, 15 (48.57%) are male and 18 (51.43%) are female. Our humble club was chartered September 03, 2013 by Charter president PDRR Sharlynn Andrea Que during the Rotary Theme: “Light Up Rotary” Most of the club members are coming from diverse profession and a lot of them are actually dedicated of serving the community aside from being professional workers.
The top three projects of the club for the Life Changing term are, project silEYE 2021: Sight to Light Eye, project InQCClinated 2021: Your Sugar Buddy!, and project ORAGON 2022: Optimism towards Resilient Agreement through Geographically-Oriented Networks
Among these three, our flagship project is silEYE 2021. This project aims to provide new hope for Filipino people with vision impairment through free eye screening program and sponsored operation for minimal cost in collaboration with private sectors. It is a two-year project in partnership with ZOI Health company that target beneficiaries to experience 20/20 vision and lessen lifelong consequences by the end of 2023. In recent implementation of the project 15 beneficiaries were successfully operated and return their vision to its normal capacity. A memorandum of understanding was signed by the Rotaract Club of Quezon City Central and ZOI health at Las Casas Quezon City to strengthen the sustainability plan of the project.
The preparation for the project silEYE 2021 includes project proposal meeting with ZOI health executive board and also doing community assessment to the adopted community for the implementation of the project. I think success in implementation of rotary project is not enough to describe if the project is truly successful. It is more of boosting the potential of each member for you to be able to make a quality sustainable project. It is believing on your members that they can grow in Rotary to serve and change lives. Lastly, true success in Rotary is about sacrificing, because in the end of the day we are not sacrificing for nothing but we do sacrifice for something.
In regards with the future, the club sticked to our 5-year strategic plan whereby all project must be designed with sustainability plan. By this, continuous services and impact to our adopted community is sustained. We are aiming to continue all projects from life changing term to the imaginative term. In addition, as the club transition to the new Rotary Year we are proud to launched also our club’s branding theme for this Rotary Term, the “AGOS 2022”.
