Rotary Club of Pasig West

“Reaching Out to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)”

Project Description:  

Integral to the Club’s organizational guiding principle and advocacy of “BAYANIHAN – the spirit of serving others,” the club has given new light to the urgent call “to extend a helping hand to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies” as well as to the universal concern “to show solidarity with the most vulnerable.”   

Now a part of its continuing commitment to service, the club adopted a project to reach out to persons with disabilities (PWDs).

The component-program of the project consists of the following: a) speech and communication skills training; b) productivity and job readiness, c) good citizenship and spiritual formation.

Area of Focus Addressed:

As officially defined, “a PWD is an individual who is unable to do something in a certain way” as well as one with “an incapacity to perform due to impairments in sensory, physical, cognitive and other areas of functioning.” 

Republic Act No. 7277 or the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons in the Philippines provides the legal basis and obligation of government and society in the care and assistance of “handicapped and differently-abled persons.” 

Directed to cater to PWDs, the project is especially inclusive.  Beneficiaries of the program are not restricted to PWDs only.  It is also open to normal individuals wanting to learn sign language as a form of communication skill for employment or simply to serve others, be job-ready by the development of productive skills, acquire good personal character traits and spiritual growth, thus, become an agent of light and inspiration – like Rotarians.

                        Rotarian Participation:

This program offers an opportunity for Rotarians to promote Rotary and its objectives and core values to the general public in helping build the future of PWDs.  

The basic skills and productivity activities together with the character and spiritual growth sessions will serve as the occasion for club members’ involvement in the project. 

Member’s participation also includes efforts to solicit financial support and enlistment of other civic-minded members of the community to be additional resource-volunteers for the project. 

           

                       

 Budget Breakdown:

                        Funding:

            

Sources of funds for the activities are from personal donations of club members and private parties.

INTERESTED IN HELPING FUND THIS PROJECT?

           Other participating Clubs (if any):

                      Cooperating Organization(s):

           

Involved in the project with the Rotary Club of Pasig West are the Special Friends Community (SFC), a congregation of volunteers and families focused in assisting differently-abled children and individuals, and the PWD Ministry of the Holy Family Parish Church of Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City

            

            

           

           Other Sources of funding (if any):

N.B.: Under negotiation

            Sustainability and Measurability:

            The project is part of the long-term program of service of the club.

Success of the project will be measured through the standard of “even just one employed PWD per Rotary year at a time.”

            Club Contact person/s details:

Contact Persons 

BCP Charlie Atienza – Club President, Pasig West

Project Team Leader :  

CP Den Somera - Chair

            Rtn.Seth Pangan – Member

If you are interested in helping us with this project, send us an email.

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