FIGHTING COVID-19 in Grassroots Level By TCP Brenda Legarda-del Rosario, RC Parañaque Metro South | HOLDING community service projects during the Covid-19 pandemic is a great challenge. This is what it felt during the early weeks in March this year when President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the whole island of Luzon. What made this worst was the extension of ECQ from April 30 to May 15.

Club meetings were suspended, District events were rescheduled but the sense of concern of every TCP and his/her club is getting stronger as the casualties continued to soar including those in the frontline.

Funding became a problem to finance a project that will fight the unseen enemy Covid-19. In midApril, the problem was answered. Champion Gov. Ador Tolentino announced for clubs to avail of the Disaster Response Grant worth P1,275,000 from Rotary International. Each Club was allocated get P20,000.00. The Grant was exclusively for Covid response projects such as PPEs, Hospital/quarantine Tent, logistics/ transportation for frontliners, relief doods for indigents.

When Gov Ador encouraged clubs to group together and pool their allocations for bigger impact, RCPMS immediately proposed “Balikatan Kontra Covid-19 for Grassroots Level” and asked others to join. Ten TCPs responded: TCP Gracey Agustin of RC Parañaque Lakan-Bini, TCP Vergelio Bracamonte of San Nicolas Makati, TCP Myrna Loreto Alcera of RC Cosmopolitan Las Piñas, TCP Arlyn De Leon-Gregorio of Alabang Centrepoint, TCP Alexander David Puray of RC Makati Guadalupe, TCP Zenia Lim-Panahon of RC Sunvalley-Sunrise, TCP Richard Chua of RC Parañaque Central, TCP Lyda Mildred H. Lunar of RC Circuit Makati, TCP Jhoanna Cenizal of RC Alabang West, and TCP Arlene Dias of RC Ayala Alabang Entrepreneurs.

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