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Cebu
educators organize VIP-CWS course for NSTP coordinators
and lecturers
Taken
from Sun Star - Cebu, June 8, 2002
For
the past six years, the Values Integration and Promotion-Civic
Welfare Service (VIP-CWS) has gone modestly about
its business with a steady assurance that resonates.
With
the Army Reserve Command’s support, Dr. Vivian
A. Gonzales, an MNSA graduate, pioneered VIP-CWS in
eight colleges and one university in Laguna in school
year 1996-1997 as part of the Expanded ROTC’s
Civic Welfare Service. When the sixth and final batch
of VIP-CWS cadets under the Expanded ROTC graduated
in March 2002, a total of 25 barangays in Laguna had
benefitted from 496 projects carried out by 1,759
VIP-CWS graduates in a span of six years.
Starting
June 2002, students can enrol in VIP-CWS to fulfill
the number of units required of them by law under
the National Service Training Program.
Seven
participants from Cebu who represented their schools
in the inaugural VIP-CWS Course for NSTP coordinators/lecturers
last May 1-5 in the University of the Philippines
Los Baños took it upon themselves to organize
a similar training at the Betania Retreat House from
May 16-19 in Lahug, Cebu.
Felicimo
Alingasa and Teodis Buma-at of the University of San
Carlos got together with Cebu Institute of Technology’s
Elsa Miral, Gregorio Silverio and Rosa Alma Almagro,
and Cebu Doctors’ College Inc.’s Dominic
Duja and Jose Carmi Balicoco.
“Those
of us who attended the first training course in Laguna
felt privileged to be able to do so. We wanted other
schools to experience what we had experienced.
Bringing
the training team to Cebu was also the way of helping
the schools in the region implement VIP-CWS, since
it is endorsed by the Commission on Higher Education
(Ched) as part of the NSTP,” said Buma-at, USC
administration liaison officer for ROTC affairs.
“How
can schools implement the program this June if they
don’t know it? Because we had attended the training
we were more informed and better prepared. Not even
the Ched regional office here knew about it,”
added Buma-at, who is tasked with ensuring that the
4,000 incoming freshmen of the school will be able
to enrol in an NSTP option when classes begin in June.
Last
May 19, some 23 educators/coordinators from 11 Cebu
institutions of higher learning, including private,
public, and technical-vocational schools graduated
from the VIP-CWS Qualifying Course for lecturers/coordinators
of the NSTP.
Joining
the VIP-CWS under the NSTP are educators who realize
that the struggle has shifted from the battlefield
to the fields within ourselves.
The
graduates of the May16-19 qualifying course were Jesus
Duero, Dr. Nerissa Lopez, Apolinar Silab Jr. (Andres
Soriano Memorial College); Vabby C. Payod (Cite);
Jesus Ricardo Calidguid (CSCST); Maria Joy Fatima
Domogma (Consolatrix College of Toledo city); Meinard
Batulid (Holy Name University); Giselle Gay Silverio
(University of San Agustin); Nimfa Alo, Mary Ann Badal,
Gino Jun Bagano, Florife Enriquez, Maria Bianca Figueroa,
Dolores Gamul, Teofilo Gono, Rosario Mahusay (USC);
Primitivo Lano, Francisco Osorio (USJ-R); Edgardo
Cagalitan (University of Southwestern Philippines);
Laurencio Andrino Jr. (UV); Ryan Necitas Echevaria,
Ma. Menierva Lagria and Editha Serrato (Velez).
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