MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
Rover Vigil and Investiture
San Pedro, Laguna
July 2001
1ST
QUADRANT
MY SAGADA SOJOURN
Spelunking in Sagada, Mountain Province
Rationale:
Personality Development
Spelunking
is the exploration of caves for recreational purposes or just for fun. People
who enter caves with the bare minimum of equipment are said to be
spelunking. Spelunkers do not collect
scientific data.
Objectives:
1. Explore Sumaguing cave
2.
Explore Sugong & Lumiang Caves
3. Explore Matangkib Cave and Latang underground river
4. Discovering adventures in faraway place like Sagada
5. Taking the “off-beaten path”
6. Pushing self to personal limit for adventure
Date of Activity: March 2-6, 2004
Planned Itinerary
Documentation
Sagada
pictures
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
1ST
QUADRANT
“Likhang-Kamay” Sunflower Basket
Rationale:
Livelihood Project
Likhang-Kamay
project concept is a handicraft making contest in search for product/s that
will showcase the town of its industry and give its local residents opportunity
of earning money while staying in the comfort of their respective homes.
Objectives
1. To present kababayans’ artistic skills and
tap it as sustainable means of livelihood.
2. To cultivate local folks’ artistic
inclination in handicraft-making that will eventually benefit themselves
including their families.
3. To scout for local products that will
showcase the municipality and its people in the market, whether be it domestic
or international in scope.
4. To create awareness to local people that
indigenous material has a great potential only if one can develop its artistic
functionality and marketability.
Project
Date: 1991 - 2002
Project
Recipients and Earnings
·
Nagcarlan
“Ana Kalang” Jaycees
·
Municipal
Government of Nagcarlan
·
Chysarra,
Inc.
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
1ST
QUADRANT
“Sagip-Ilog”
Rationale: Community Service
The notion of involving people in serving
their own community in response to the growing environment problems. Execution of the project will bring about leadership
potential hopefully for youth cultural and educational reforms.
Objectives:
1. Assume meaningful role and respond to the real
needs of the community.
2. To contribute actively to the community and
create a culture that will nurture our environment and clearly understands its
future generations’ benefits.
Project Date: 2002 - present
Documentation
·
Municipal
Health Office of Nagcarlan
·
Local
Barangay units
·
Community
Environment and Natural Resources Office
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
1ST
QUADRANT
District wide Basic Training Course for
Unit Leaders
Support Staff
Rationale: Attending BSP Unit Leader Training Course
Objective:
Date: December 7-9, 2001
Documentation
Certificate
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
1ST
QUADRANT
“Knight”
Knights
of Columbus Membership
Rationale: Religious Upliftment
Knights of Columbus is one of the highly regarded Institution in our
community. It is known for its credibility in serving the community and deep
spiritual responsibility as shown not only as an institution but reflected on
every individual member. When invited to join, I never hesitated and
immediately proceeded. Believing in the organization uplifts my spiritual sense
and serves the supreme master even more fulfilling the K of C’s mission.
K of C Mission Statement:
Knights of Columbus Fraternal Association of the
Philippines, Inc. is fully committed to provide optimum mutual benefits to all
its members and their immediate families;
Competent and relentless in our effort to achieve
continuous growth, stability and efficient service, we always remain loyal,
results-oriented and completely committed to our assigned tasks;
Fully aware of our moral and social responsibility, we
contribute to membership development and worthy causes for the good of the
Order and of the Nation;
Aspiring to be a premier mutual benefit association, we
exemplify the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our service;
Perpetually inspired and directed by our Founders and
the Board of Trustees, we highly regard our dynamic and dedicated field
representatives, management and staff as our valued resources; and,
Imbued with the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity
and Patriotism, we maintain utmost flexibility in meeting the demands of the
times as we stand resolutely firm in the pursuit of our avowed objectives.
Objectives of K of C:
Rev.
Fr. Michael J. McGivney, a twenty-nine year old Catholic Priest of St. Mary's
Church in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. was deeply concerned with the plight
of his parishioners who suffered discrimination because of their ancestry or
religion. Appalled by the poverty and misery which befell most families when
the breadwinners die, Rev. Fr. McGivney gathered a handful of Catholic laymen
in the basement of his Church on October 2, 1881 to discuss how to best resolve
the problems that beset his flock.
The
response was enthusiastic. On March 29, 1882, the Knights of Columbus was incorporated
and obtained legal status in the State of Connecticut, U.S.A. Its Charter
specifies the following purposes:
a) of rendering pecuniary aid to its
members, their families and beneficiaries of members and their families;
b) of rendering mutual aid and assistance
to its sick, disabled and needy members and their families;
c) of promoting social and intellectual
intercourse among its members and their families; and
d) of promoting and conducting educational,
charitable, religious social welfare, war relief and welfare, and public relief
work.
Thus,
the Order is considered a Catholic, Family, Fraternal, and Service
Organization.
The
name "Knights of Columbus" was adopted simply because the organizers
strongly felt that the organization should relate to Christopher Columbus, the
Catholic explorer of the new world, to underscore their pride in America's
Catholic heritage. The name of "Columbus" evokes the aura of
Catholicity and affirmed the discovery of America as a Catholic event and the
term "Knights" was adopted to signify the embodiment of knightly
ideals of spirituality and service to Church, country and fellowmen.
Membership Date : 1997-2003
Documentation
Pictures
Attachments
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
2ND
QUADRANT
A Social Dance
Rationale: Personal Development
Objectives:
1.
To learn
and dance the “rigodon de honor”
2.
Become part of the ensemble to perform the
“rigodon de honor” in the celebration of Anakalang Festival
Date: April 2002
Documentation:
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
2ND
QUADRANT
“High-Value Vegetable
Farming”
Rationale: Livelihood Project
It is a policy of the government to
accelerate the growth and development of agriculture in general, enhance
productivity and incomes of farmers and the rural population, improve
investment climate, competencies and efficiency of agribusiness and develop
high-value crops as export crops that will significantly augment the foreign
exchange earnings of the country, through an all-out promotion of the
production, processing, marketing, and distribution of high-value crops in
suitable areas of the country. Republic
Act No. 7900 – High-Value crops development. 1995
Objectives:
To become one of the front
liners of introducing new technology in farming and high-value crops production
that will aim in the following goals:
- To improve the productivity and
sustainability of fruit and vegetable production systems that meet market
demand.
- To improve the efficiency and equity of
selected fruit and vegetable market chains through targeted innovations in
markets, institutions and policies.
- To improve the quality of fruit and
vegetables for traders and consumers and to increase the consumption of
fruit and vegetables by the urban and rural poor.
- To develop new approaches to human
capital development that is driven by technology-dependent economic
opportunity and entrepreneurship within the horticultural sector of
developing countries.
Date: 2002 onwards
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
2ND
QUADRANT
Someone’s waste is another one’s treasure
Rationale: Collecting old clothes for charitable
institution
Our family is very fortunate
to have the Madonna Mission of Missouri, USA as project partner. The international counterpart relentlessly
sends boxes of relief goods for distribution to indigent people and victims of
natural disasters in our community. Mostly old clothes and old house utensils,
we had the privilege to distribute them by our discretion to the most needy and
impoverished kababayans.
On a much wider scale, I personally contacted The Red
Cross – Laguna Chapter to become a partner in this endeavour. Confident of
their logistics and network to reach needy people whenever the need arises, we
chose them as our partner in distribution of the relief goods.
Objective:
1.
Continuously communicate with the Madonna
Mission and act as the conduit recipient of the relief good boxes sent over for
distribution.
2.
Identify indigent families in Nagcarlan.
3.
Request from the Municipal Social Welfare and
Development Office records of under-privileged families living in every
barangay of Nagcarlan.
4.
Schedule visits to the area of the identified
beneficiary families and re-confirm their condition.
5.
Distribution of goods.
6.
Communicating with the Red Cross and schedules
pick-up of boxes for distribution at their own discretion.
Date: 2003 - present
Madonna Mission, USA
Philippine National Red Cross – Laguna Chapter
Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
2ND
QUADRANT
Council
wide CLTC, Pre and Final Board of Review
Facilitator:
“Safety” / Support Staff
Rationale: Service to the Scouting Movement
Objective:
1. To provide lecture on “Safety”
2. Demonstrate/ Illustrate equipment on an
outdoor activity
Date: November 22- 24, 2002
Facilitation Plan
Documentation
Pictures
Attachments:
Memorandum
Certificate
MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
2ND
QUADRANT
Rationale: Attending Religious Services
Religion to me is a personal relationship with God, not with the
religious society in which I belong. I attend masses because I wish to visit
and talk to God in a regular ordinary passion, similar to what others do. But I also have my prime time of interacting
with my creator a little different from the rest. It’s a rather deeper, more private but simple
way of talking to my Lord and my God.
“Go
placidly amid the noise and haste;
And
remember what peace there may be in silence.”
Objective:
I see this not as an obligation, not a way
of life, not a personal promise but rather a personal excitement of interacting
with God with deeper meaning and implication in my personal being, though
oftentimes openly interpreted by other
people to be a manner somehow acceptable to the regular norm or regular
religious act.
ROVER MOOT
Immersion activity at the Rover Moot defines it from other activities in Philippine Scouting. It involves challenges for anyone will not know what to expect until one immerses with local people. It needs a cleric heart to get motivated to work hard and finish the task. the Rover Moot was set at the province of Aklan. To bring help no mater little and to ease burden no matter short-ending.
Typhoon Hyan (Yolanda) badly ravaged the PhilippineVisayan Region. Though not being mentioned in the Philippine news as hyped as TAcloban, Leyter area, the province of Aklan was roughly torn by the typhoon. The Aklanon remain silent, unaware or perhaps un frenzied by all the annoyance and hypocritic relief episodes being.exposed in the news everyday. Seeing the place at first glance would anyone realize they too are screaming for help.
In our three day immersion activities, we were brought to Ochiando Elementary School for a cleaning tasks, Dumaguit Elementary School to get to order the ragged coverred court and shool stage, Fatima Shoreline Elementary School to clear a big mango tree which put the entire 2-classroom school building down, Cawayan elementary School to cut into pieces branches and trunks of Narra trees hoping to salvage of it not...make charcoal out of then and lastly, New Washington elementary School for more clearing or if not went on with our assigned tasks.
On the final day, all four delegates from Laguna Council were awarded with two (2) Rover Quadrant by the Rover Moot Officials.
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MY ROVER PEER
UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
3RD
QUADRANT
Rationale: Researching on local history
Tayak or Tayak Hill as it is being called
today is my favourite nearby regular weekend hiking destination. Started in early 2002, my curiosity to know
more about the place progresses. Realizing that there was no written
information about the place, I went ahead and do some researches and interviews
until I come with “The Road to Tayak” article published in the internet.
Objective:
1. To mingle with the local folks living in the
area.
2. To inquire of known stories that they
personally or their parents or family members encountered sometime in the past.
3. To research for any written local history
being kept on government or church offices.
Documentation
Picture from an internet site
MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
3RD QUADRANT
"Anakalang Hikers of Nature Joins Rover Scouting"
Service to the Scouting Organization Project
Participants : Anakalang Hikers of Nature A.H.O.N.
Date : June 25-26, 2022
Proponent/Sponsor : Sctr. Gerry Monteza
Sa pamamatnugot ng inyong lingkod maluwalhating nakaraos sa ROVIC ang grupong AHON noong June 26, 2022 sa BSP Jaime Ching Camp, Anibong, Pagsanjan, Laguna. Ang AHON, na dating isang lokal na grupo lamang ay naging mga Rovers as officially listed na isang ganap na Rover Circle at grupong kinikilala ng Boy Scouts of the Philippines bilang AHON Rovers Circle #39.
Bilang ganap na mga kapanalig ng kapatirang Skawting ng Pilipinas na makapag-aambag ng anumang kolektibong suporta na makakayanan, minabuti ng inyong lingkod na bigyan ng proposisyon at hamon ang AHON Rovers upang matukoy ang landas na tatahakin.
Matapos ng Rovic ano?
Dumako na tayo sa critical na bahagi matapos tayong kinilala at tanggapin ng BSP at maging mga AHON Rovers. Bilang mga Rovers, kung inyong palaiisipin sa mga kaalaman na ibinahagi sa atin ng Rovic....ito ay punasyon kung ano ang maari nating isagawa matapos ng isang magdamag na aktibidad. Ating pahapyaw na balikan at sariwain ang "impression" at ang "challenge". LInawin natin na hindi lang iyon hiniling sa isang miyembro na tinawag sa harapan upang ibahagi ang kanyang tugon. Ang "challenge" o hamon ay hinihiling din sa ating lahat, hindi lang sa isa kundi bilang isang Circle, bilang isang grupo na kolektibong magsasagawa ng pagkilos upang maging kapakipakinabang na mga mamamayan.
Marami ang hindi nagtatagumpay dito mula noon hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Isang kadahilanan ay na ang komunikasyon at kooperasyon ng bawat isa. Isang sanhi din ang pagkamakasatili, aminin man natin o hindi ay naging likas na kaugaliang Pilipino mula pa ng panahon ng mga ninuno natin. Marami pang mga dahilan ngunit naniniwala akong ang unagn dahilan na nabanggit ay kayang kaya nating pagtagumpayan bilang nagkakaisang grupo. Kung kaya ang pagkakamaling iyon ang ating sisikaping bigyan ng pansin at tugunan bilang isang Rover Circle.
Masaya tayo at liwaliw sa naranasan natin na Rover exercise. bilang mga karaniwang mamamayan na matapos makapag tapos ng pag-aaral at kasalukuyang nabubuhay ng matiwasay sa ating munting kumunidad, hindi na natin naranasang isailalim ang mga sarili sa gawain tulad ng sa Rovic. Isang uri ng Team Building exercise na malimit nang isinasagawa ng mga bagong institusyon at organisasyon ngayon upang mapatibay ang bigkis ng bawat isa sa kanyang kapwa. Ang Scouting ang nagpasimula nito at tinularan lang dahil sa mabuting dulot nito. Ngunit sa paglipas ng panahon, habang napag-usapan na g pauli-ulit ang saya ng mga ginawa sa Rovic. Unti-unti babalik na ullit tayo sa ating mga nakagawian. Hanggang sa isang masayang ala-ala na lang ang Rovic paminsan minsan ay nakalilibang na napapag-usapan, nakalingatan na ang tunay na layunin ng Rovic o ng pagiging isang Rover at ang dapat na tungkulin sa ating bayan.
Sa kasalukuyan, walang Rover Circle ang nanatiling masigla at masigasi na makaroon ng aktibong partisipasyon sa kani-kanilang komunidad. Marahil ay sa kakulangan ng gabay at tukoy na landasi kung ano ang magiging paraan ng isang Rover Circle upang maging kapakipakinabang sa lipunan. Ito ang hamon na kailangan natin patunayan bilang mga bagong talagang Rovers na magsisikap maiskatuparan ang mga gawain na ating pinag-isipan at sa ating palagy ay makatutulong sa ating bayan. Tayo ang mag-iisip, at tayo din ang magsasagawa. Huwag tayong lalayo sa idolohiyang: "Simpleng Kaisipan, simpleng paraan". Kung mag-iisip tayuo ng masalimuot na bagy upang isakatuparan ang isang gawain, ang hamon ng maisakatuparan ito sa madaling panahon ay magiging mahirap para sa atin. Sa ngayon ang pangarap nating makatulong ay kailangan totoong gagawin at hindi pangarap na pinaguusapan lamang.
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MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
3RD QUADRANT
"KOREAN PARK",
AHON Rover Hiking Activity
Personality
Development Project
Participants : AHON Rover Circle #39 and other hiking guests
Venue : Poblacion
1 Jump-off to Sitio Balugbog to Korean Park Brgy Palina, Nagcarlan
inception and Rationale:
Anakalang Hikers of Nature or
simply AHON was formed on October 2012. The group is composed of people from
all walks of life enjoying nature through hiking and exploring beautiful places
that has tourism potentials. AHON
regularly hike every first Sunday of the month. Monthly Hiking activities being
posted on social media slowly gained popularity to our townsfolk. Soon enough AHON was recognized by people to
be nature loving conservationists with hiking as their medium to a healthy
fruitful life. From its initial purpose of just personal enjoyment, AHON has
become an advocacy group promoting the conservation of our environment and
Eco-Tourism. Subsequently, AHON was
recognized by the local government, public and private schools and numerous
local entities to be partners of goodwill and service to our kababayans.
On AHON’s 10th year
Anniversary year 2022, the group decided to upgrade its status elevating AHON
from a local Advocacy Group to something more beneficial and relevant to
changing times with wider and deeper aspirations to serve. We then commit
ourselves to become AHON Rover Circle #39.
AHON monthly Hiking continues. “Korean Park” is AHON Rover Circle #39 first
hiking activity as Rover Scouts. As serious health advocates, we commit
ourselves to hiking as part of our lifestyle meeting people, introducing and
promoting natural beauties within our environment, inviting people of all ages
to experience the joy of communing with nature through hiking, and re-educate
them the significance of conserving our natural environment for its numerous
benefits to ourselves and the generations ahead.
Activity Planning and
Preparation:
AHON Rovers ensure that every
hike was planned and inspected by AHON Rovers in-charge, coordinated to
respective authorities, barangay officials, land owners or tenants for proper information
and consent. After careful planning, a
hike Ad is to be made, proof read and
posted on our AHON/AHON Rovers Social media page indicating date, time and venue of assembly,
hike difficulty and then thereafter…. laid out an ad with an enticing poster
background.
Things to bring during a hike, although very
much routinary for the group is always being reminded for other guest hikers’
information. AHON Rovers welcome
everyone who would like to join our regular hiking activities.
General Sequence of AHON Rover Hiking
Activity:
·
Attendance and Assembly
·
Short Hike Briefing and Orientation
·
Trail Management Assignments
·
Prayers
·
Group Picture
·
Hike Proper
·
Re-grouping; Photo Opts
·
Hike Destination Group Picture
MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
3RD QUADRANT
AHON ROVERS FLAG
RAISING AND FLAG RETREAT
Community Service
Project
Participants :
AHON Rovers Circle #39
Venue : CGMES, Nagcarlan and Pag-asa
Elementary School, Liliw
Beneficiaries : CGMES Pupils and Pag-asa Elementary School Pupils
Project Dates : July 2022 – August 2022
Project Partner : MPS Liliw, Laguna (for Pag-asa
Elem School)
RATIONALE:
With pride and pleasure of
accepting and becoming Rover Scouts duly recognized by the Boy Scouts of the
Philippines, it is our outmost desire to present ourselves to the community
re-introducing ourselves not only as AHON, the hikers and nature lovers but as
AHON Rovers ready and as ideal scouts, always willing to serve for the good of
our community.
To properly present ourselves, we
decided to practice and showcased our love for the Philippine Flag. We volunteered
to help schools for their first day of the week Flag Raising Ceremony and Flag
retreat, Friday afternoon. We believe
that by doing such, we can educate and equip ourselves of proper handling of
the Philippine Flag during Flag Raising and Retreat. The same is true that by doing such act, we
can best demonstrate to the school pupils color ceremony which we noticed were
not being practiced on several schools to this day.
CGMES Flag Raising Activity was
held on August 22, 2022 and Pag-asa Elementary School Flag Raising and Retreat
was on August 23 &26, 2022 respectively with the Liliw MPS as AHON Rover’s
activity partners.
PRACTICE, PREPARATION AND INTRODUCTION WITH THE AUTHORITIES
As AHON Rover Scouts, we appropriately
introduced ourselves to proper Authorities. Very timely, Nagcarlan has a newly
elected Municipal Executive, and so we presented ourselves to the Municipal
Mayor and introduced who we are: AHON Rovers Circle #39 ready to serve.
Equipped with our good
intentions, successively we requested introduction meetings with school authorities
as well and asked permission if we could practice Flag raising and retreat
ceremonies at their school ground on two
weekends.
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MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
3RD QUADRANT
Our Yearly San Isidro Feast
A Religious Upliftment
Every 15th of May we celebrated the feast of San Isidro, the patron Saint of farmers at our ancestral home in Nagcarlan.
As our family's voluntary imposition of expressing thanks to San Isidro, we dedicated ourselves to giving back to people by allotting the whole day to its celebration. At our garage, we improvised a "kubol" adorning San Isidro's altar with flowers and palaspas to be prayed upon by our senior neighbors. Preparing food varieties for everyone and setting up traditional games with numerous gifts, candies, goodies and cash to be given away. And finally the most sought after"paagaw", hampas palayok and water bombs to tap the joyful celebration before dusk. Anyone can join in and celebrate with us. In a single day from the early hours after waking up and until the conclusion of the feast before night time, tiring but fulfilling, our own traditional way and appreciation for bountiful agricultural blessings given to us by God, we made sure that we succeeded and brought fun to everyone. As we celebrate the feast we renew our faith to God and thank Him for his generous provisions. We believe and pray that we are glorying His name whenever we revel and bring joyful acts to others through the feast of San Isidro.
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MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
4TH QUADRANT
THE BIRDLAND
PROJECT
Community Service
Project
Participants : AHON Rovers Circle #39
Venue : Mt. Lansay, Pulang Lupa Hills,
Barangay Banilad, Nagcarlan
Community Beneficiary : Barangay Banilad, Nagcarlan, Laguna
Duration of the Project : April 2022 – June 2023
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE:
Healing from the worldwide
pandemic. Having been sidelined for about 2 years in our respective homes, AHON
craved for their monthly hiking activities.
We missed the soothing early morning breeze, the comforting outdoor sunrise,
and the mystic feeling of catching our breaths when assaulting hills and
peaks. Our immense desire to go out is
appealing to all of us .We then agreed and proceeded with our longtime dream of
introducing Mt. Lansay and Pulang Lupa Hill to be an Eco-Park due to its
proximity to the town proper, its easy gradient that everyone can overcome, and
best, the beauty of its environment with 360 degrees view of the surroundings,
lush vegetation, mountain views around, the sight of Nagcarlan town and its
bountiful countryside.
ACTIVITY PLANNING, COORDINATION AND PREPARATION
Since the project was previously
drawn and arranged years back, coordination to the landowners and barangay
authorities were long been worked on and agreed. Trails were cleared and cleaned; stairs were molded
and laid on stiff areas sponsored by the barangay. Main holding areas were cleared mowed,
cleaned, arranged and planted endemic plants for aesthetic purposes.
On a weekly basis, AHON Rovers
visited the areas, maintaining its trails, cleanliness and its general
condition impressive to its visitors whenever they would wish to see it. AHON
Rovers made colorful birdhouses, trail signs and posted notices to the public.
We showcased the beauty of the area while reminding them that the love and
protection of nature is essential to our lives.
With the colorful birdhouses we
have made and “Banilad” the name of the place where Mt. Lansay and Pulang Lupa
Hill are located….we then call our project “Birdland”.
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MY ROVER PEER UNSTRUCTURED ADVANCEMENT
4TH QUADRANT
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