Projects for School Year 2020 – 2021

Prepared by: Charmaine Niña S. Bontilao

Title : Collection Drive

Target Date to be published : August 2020

Venue : SACS High School Department

Clientele : SACS Students

Sponsoring Area : Student Council Core

RATIONALE:

On one hand, there are people who live their life lavishly. They are not
only enjoying the joy of essentials but also have what they want and desire; a
luxurious living providing them an extra comfort. On the other hand, there are
people who cannot even aff ord the basic requirements of living. They do not have
shelter to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear.People who have extra are living a
comfortable and a posh life. While those who have barely the vitals are fighting
each day for life.They fail to meet the basic requirements.

One cannot make such people opulent but can at least help them achieve the
essentials of life and lead a prosperous life. Helping the poor and needy people is
a good deed and a responsibility. Caring for the poor and needy people and
helping them is a noble endeavor. The more you give to poor and needy people,
the more you strengthen their dependency. If you give them the chance or
opportunity, you’ll see an effective and long-lasting improvement in their lives.
Create a new system built on inter-dependency which motivates them to work
and move forward and their dignity maintained. Tossing out the extra money or
just spare change do help the poor and needy people but the need is to direct your
energies and efforts in raising them, building relationship, teaching them and
moreover, regaining their self-confidence and self-esteem to work for themselves.

That having been said, the Student Council Core has come up with a project
entitled “Collection Drive.” This project drive can be conducted in classrooms
and/or school offices and reaches to the neediest people (can be our CIP
Scholars). It is one of the easiest way to help the poor and needy people. There
will be an organize collection drive by setting up secured containers or locked box
which will be in classrooms and/or offices in which people can drop off monetary
donations for additional help for our Community Involvement Programs and to
our scholars. The Student Council Core, in coordination with the Community
Involvement Program Coordinator will make it work to have it a great way to
reinforce our own personal values and feel like we’re living in a way that is true to
our own ethical and spirituality beliefs as Alphonsians.

OBJECTIVES:

The project “Collection Drive” aims to:

 To show an act of humanity that we show towards others in the

simplest ways in connection to our school’s spirituality ‘Love
and Compassion’.

 To maximize the spare money or spare changes that the

students can willingly give.

 To bring out the value of charity in each Alphonsians in small

yet meaningful action.

 To be an active citizen in our community by helping in through

this project.
 RESOLUTION NO.

A RESOLUTION TO ADMINISTRATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF

COLLECTION DRIVE AMONG ALPHONSIANS

Authored by: Student Council Core Members

WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human

Rights, everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and
well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and
medical care and necessary social services;

WHEREAS, poverty is a violation of human rights and affirmed the need to

come together to ensure that these rights are respected.

WHEREAS, according to the United Nations around 10% of the world

population is living in extreme poverty and struggling to fulfil the most basic
needs like shelter, health, food, education, and access to water and sanitation;
proportion of Poor Filipinos was Estimated at 16.6 percent in 2018;

WHEREAS, it is known that there are sufficient resources to end extreme

poverty in our world, a poverty that leaves billions living on minimum wage a day
or nothing at all and suffering from malnutrition and disease where thousands of
children die each day;

WHEREAS, according to the school’s handbook SACS Situation that the city of
Lapu-Lapu has become a highly urbanized city and together with this economic
progress urban poverty spawns a multitude of issues like landlessness, street
children, underemployment and other societal concerns; making Alphonsians
exposed to the negative impacts of modernization and the problems of an
urbanized city;

WHEREAS, Filipino tradition teaches the “Bayanihan Spirit”; “Just as God

clothed the naked…so too you must supply clothes for the naked [poor]” (Deut.
15:8);

WHEREAS, the burden of the current recession of the pandemic falls

disproportionately on low income families;

WHEREAS, the safety net for people who are jobless and have lost their jobs
have deteriorated and government income supports can not permanently
support the people who are affected ; fell into poverty due to the current
recession;

WHEREAS, Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions is an

indispensable requirement for a country to rise up again and for sustainable
development.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that we as Filipino youths in the country,

which can be a positive force for development when provided with the knowledge
and opportunities they need to thrive, must further intensify our call to support
the poorest and most vulnerable for their needs and rights of the most basic
needs whose welfare the government continues to neglect;

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Student Council Core (SCC) shall let its
members be socially aware and actively reponsive to the needs of the society,
especially the “cry of the poor”;

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the SCC shall internalized their objective as the
student body by creating a program that links to holistic formation and total
human liberation in terms of helping to needy;

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the SCC shall collaborate with St. Alphonsus
Catholic School’s (SACS) Administration specifically the Community
Involvement Program (CIP) Coordinator;

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the SCC and the CIP Coordinator shall go along
with a campaign and program that shall help students develop critical social
awareness and selfless commitment in the community pervasive with the DOLSH
Spirituality of the Heart and the Benedictine Spirituality “Ora et Labora” (Pray
and Work);

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that

the SCC shall inspire, establish and mobilize to bring action the vision and
initiate support to activities and programs for the development and the
upliftment of moral, social, intellectual and spiritual being; uphold the school’s
Vision-Mission; in collaboration with the CIP office, both shall work to give the
school community oppurtunities to be in closer link and solidarity with the larger
community of Lapu-Lapu City in outreach related activities.
APPROVED BY:

The Student Council Core

St. Alphonsus Catholic School (Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu) Inc.
May 15, 2020

ATTESTED BY:

Charmaine Niña S. Bontilao

Chairperson on Community Involvement Program