Message from
ARTURO "BOBBY" C. TANYAG
District Governor, RY 2022 - 2023 | Rotary Club of Pasig South
We started our Rotary Journey in this Imaginative Year, after having emerged and survived so many challenges during the past two (2) years, with extreme eagerness and enthusiasm to celebrate and share the joy of reuniting with fellow Rotarian friends whom we have not seen in the flesh, having viewed and met each other only in the confines of a cold cyber space medium of unreacting ‘Zoom Boxes’.
With the COVID-19 virus seemingly relegating itself to mutation to lesser virulent strains, we have incited the flames of warm fellowship within clubs reverberating to the various Zones of our District 3800 and across the whole country as well!
Having been frozen in fear and feeling catatonic while in quarantined isolation, the emergence of the need to rekindle the bonds of friendship and kinship among us Rotarians made everyone realize that we have to make time for each other. All of District 3800’s kinetic energy went haywire resulting to a wild frenzy of multi-varied celebrations of Club Anniversaries distinct from elaborately festive Induction and Handover Celebrations, with some clubs opting for a stand-alone Governor’s Visit.
Strategic Planning sessions which were normally confined to the regular meeting venues became ‘Revenge-Tourism’ opportunities to destination locations outside the District, thereby refreshing creative minds to ‘think outside the box’ resulting to truly imaginative projects so different from previous Rotary Years.
The very creative products of the fertile imagination of Rotarians rising to the all-encompassing challenge of RI President Jennifer Jones have become very evident in the twenty (20) Governor’s Visits I have accomplished to date. Their Strategic Planning exercises following the three-year template of Rotary International has ensured the establishment of sustainable meaningful projects of clubs dedicating more Days of Service with multi-pronged objectives covering three (3) or more areas of Focus of The Rotary Foundation (TRF) in each Day of Service.
The Rotary Clubs which have been visited to date have all yielded more achievement targets ranging from a minimum of 18 humanitarian projects for the smaller clubs to as many as 40 targetted service projects for the Rotary Year.
All of the Rotary Clubs which have already welcomed me to assist them finalize their Club goals to be aligned with the District’s Thrusts and Rotary International Objectives have presented wonderful examples of humanitarian projects that will contribute to what may be deemed as Legacy Projects with a maximized number of beneficiaries with measurable outcomes that will constantly be monitored and managed by them. Gone are the one-shot-deal type of projects so prevalent in the past.
Congratulations to the first twenty (20) Rotary Clubs which have been so brave enough to enlist their clubs for an early Governor’s Visit and have been guided by their respective SAGs and AGs to help improve hundreds of lives in their respective communities with unimaginable and imaginative service activities creating hope, changing lives, and creating lasting change that will ensure a brighter horizon setting the stage for sustainable impactful projects, ensuring better lives with the constant sharing of Love, Joy, Kindness and Peace in their respective communities, across the globe and in ourselves!
