with 2010 NVP DOlette

By JCI Mem. Alvin C. Adaza
2010 VP for International

It was my first out of town experience with JCI. Excited to fly over to a new personal exploration…Palawan, one of the dream places i wanted to go. The venue of the place was my main purpose why I booked for an early promo months ago.

Really, it was a week of whole package of fun. Seeing the wondrous nature tourism Palawan has to offer. Meeting new people from other chapters, while having fun in nightly fellowship(Yeah! Partyyy!! ). Exposing myself to the activities and protocols such as The Plenary, Temiong Awards and the Presidential Ball.

I was a baby JCI for 3 years. I am glad that i decided to be an active member this year. I do believe that this year will be a benchmark for maximizing my participation and allow myself to grow in many areas of my persona while doing service to the community.

I was struck by the Valedictory Address of JCI Sen. Fulbert Woo, when he took words from the poem of Mother Theresa -* Do It Anyway. He expressed that we should continue to do goodness even if others are not to us – it is a hard thing to perfect but do it anyway…. The National Convention gave me a wider scope of what the organization is deemed for its existence. JCI is a venue where young leaders are molded to be with commitment, conscience and compassion.

Committed to serve rather than to be served, a leader should be a great server before he is recognize and respected as an authentic leader.

Doing things with conscience, being responsible of what you impart to others, such act or word shown to others – if it is righteous and justifiable. With the theme:” Be Better: Protecting Environment through Active Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs,” JCI should always wave the banner imprinting love Mother Earth and explicitly live with it.

Always be compassionate to those who are less fortunate, that we prioritize our endeavors towards community service.

With all our yearnings from the National Convention, may we always live with the JCI tagline for this year and continue to transcend mediocrity – Be Better!

The National Convention is one of the most-awaited affairs that highlight an extensive lavishness of programs for the year. An annual gathering for JCI members nationwide, which gives them the opportunity to come together and, for four days, fully experience the privileges of what the movement has to offer.

The JCI started  in the Philippines because of a crying need of the postwar years – the need for an opportunity by which the young men could find their own niche in society and serve the community, the need of an effective medium by which they could show their elders what they can accomplish by themselves and, in the process, gain valuable training and experience for their future role in our nation.

On Friday, February 11, 1949, the first national convention held in the Fiesta Pavilion of the newly rebuilt Manila Hotel and was attended to close three hundred young JCI members from the twelve newly established JCI local organizations in the country not only to celebrate the culmination of a year of successful achievements, but also to exchange ideas for fostering the work they so auspiciously started.