Chapter 1

NSTP- National Service Training Program

R.A 9163- The Implementing act of NSTP.
3 components of NSTP:
1. ROTC
- Reserved Officers’ Training Corps
2. CWTS
- Civic Welfare Training Service
3. LTS
- Literacy Training Service
ROTC
- is for military training
LTS-
is for literacy training and services
 CWTS
- the students are trained to become volunteers for the
general welfare of marginalized communities.

CWTS program focus:

1. Improvement of health
2. Education
3. Public safety
4. Recreation
5. Morale of citizenry
6. Protection of environment
7. Promotion of entrepreneurship
Additional focus of CWTS on various volunteer works:
1. Infrastructure
2. Social welfare assistants
3. Rescue and operation workers
R.A 9163 or NSTP act was put into Law on January 23, 2002

3 Governmental Organizations who jointly implemented NSTP:

1. DND
- Department of National Defense
2. CHED
- Commission on Higher Education
3. TESDA
- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
NSTP Law was first implemented in the School Year 2002-2003.
 Origin of NSTP
Welson Chua- Father of a kidnapped victim in UST.
March 2001- a student from University of Santo Tomas was kidnapped and
was murdered.
Mark Wilson Chua- an ROTC cadet and UST student who was kidnapped and
killed.
Six cadet officers involved in the death of Mark Wilson Chua:
1. Cadet Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Michael Von Rainard B. Manangbao
2. Cadet (LTC) Eduardo E. Tabrilla
3. Cadet Officer Paul Joseph N. Tan
4. Cadet LTC Franco Salvador Suelto
5. Cadet LTC Arnulfo B. Appari
6. Cadet Major Jeremy Gabriel Donuan
Under the leadership of Major Demy Tejares as UST Commandant.
 Recalling The Disappearance

Mark Wilson Chua disappeared on March 15, 2001.

Three days later, his body was found in Pasig River, hog tied.
An idealist Mark Wilson Chua wrote an article in VARSITARIAN,
the official school paper of UST, the irregularities practiced by
the very officers of ROTC.
Corruption practices done by ROTC officers:
1. Payoffs for exemptions in attendance.
2. Selling of manuals
3. Payments for patches
According to the NBI calculations, the scalawags were getting 8
million pesos per semester.
 NSTP-CWTS
Mission:
To conduct capability enhancement for civic welfare services
geared towards strengthening the values, and traits of the youth, develop
social entrepreneurs, volunteers, and socio-economic mobilizing force,
serving communities as value-driven innovators for progress and
development while working closely with a network of organizations within
and outside the higher education institutions.
Vision:
Recovery of the youth’s sense of patriotism and national pride,
values and habits of discipline and hard work, integrity and accountability
for nation building, volunteer in the enhancement of valuable and
effective members of the National Service Corps of the Civic Welfare
Training Service.
Goal:
To promote and integrate values education; transformational leadership; and
sustainable social mobilization for youth development, community building,
national renewal, and global solidarity.
Objectives:
1. To promote and protect the physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual, and social well
being of the youth.
2. To inculcate patriotism and nationalism in the youth.
3. To encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs.
4. To identify their role as change agents in the community.
5. To prepare and implement projects that will answer specific needs of the society.
Values: We are guided by our commitment to:
1. Love God,
2. Human Dignity,
3. Truth, goodness, and social responsibility
4. Innovation and Creativity
5. Synergy and professionalism
6. Protection of the environment
7. Indigenous learning and conservation; and
8. Quality service delivery