Nanays Para sa Edukasyon sa Kabus nga Banay Program (NEKBP)

To : Mr. Joel Rosario

Barangay Captain

Cantagay, Jagna

From : Arnulfo “Cocoy” Laniba

Cuarteros Bread & Cakes

Jagna Public Market Cellphone #: 0910-6447-828

Re : Making Your Administration Able to Grant “Scholarship” without

Spending a Single Centavo but through Cooperation

Text :

Wel,

Gud a.m. to you. I have decided to write you a short note and also to furnish a few document regarding a project which I call “Nanays para sa Edukasyon sa Kabus nga Banay Program” (NEKBP).

I am invited to attend this morning’s rally in Tagbilaran; at the same time, to deliver orders by ICM and a birthday cake to a friend in Bool. I plan to catch up your afternoon session; but in case I can’t, let this letter serve as the substitute of my presence. I will attend your next session to explain NEKBP and what benefits can it do to your members as well as to you, their barangay captain. Please also talk to your women’s president; she received a copy of this program ahead of you, sometime in January.

Blessing kaayo Wel nga naa ka. NEKBP is an excellent idea which needs an excellent Leadership. You are an excellent Leader. I want to make Cantagay the pilot barangay to start our program.

What is NEKBP? It is a simple scheme to help send our children to school. The barangay will not spend additional money for this program, not even a single centavo. It is a trio or triumvirate partnership consisting of (1) barangay officials especially the barangay captain and the women’s president; (2) the people especially the mothers; and (3) a business enterprise that has the willingness – the desire – the commitment -- to SHARE part of its income for the upliftment of the people. In our case, it is the Cuarteros Bread & Cakes.

For the details and procedure, kindly study/read the letter attached I sent to your women’s president so you can easily understand what I will say next in this letter.

What are the functions of the Barangay Captain?

He must first grasp the whole scheme or program: objectives, procedure, functions & benefits. Second, if he is sold out to the goodness of the idea, he must decide to adopt it as one of his priority projects/programs. He must fully come to realize that NEKBP is a powerful strategy to attain a high level of effectiveness and accomplishment as a barangay captain - never before done by any barangay captain before! Imagine by a simple scheme of TEAMWORK between barangay officials, women and a business enterprise YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SCHOOLING OF SOME POOR YET DESERVING YOUTH who will someday become great and return love to the barangay responsible for his or her success!

Wel, I tell you: You will become an awardee of the Galing Pook Award for Excellent Scheme to Educate the People! All we have to do is: Let the NEKBP work!

Discuss NEKBP to your Women’s President. I had already sent/given a copy of the program/idea.

Level of Cooperation

I had discussed it with Vida, my wife, who will take charge in this program. (I am on the move, you see. I am managing my own NGO, Agape Foundation (Agasoft). Its an NGO for Total, Equitable, Maximum, Aesthetic, and Sustainable Development (TEMASD) of the Individual, Family, Barangay, other LGUs, Small and Medium (Business) Enterprises as well as our Nation. We concentrate on IDEAS to help everyone achieve improvement, development and progress.)

Now, as you can read in the accompanying description of the NEKBP program, we promise to give 10% of our Sales from Cantagay residents. To further motivate everyone to participate, we will implement and grant the 10% by bracket of participation. What I mean is:

Ø if number of Nanays who participate is half of the total number of Nanays in your barangay or below half, we will give 5% discount.

Ø If 51% - 75% of them participate, we will give 7.5% discount.

Ø If 75% to 100%, then, a full 10% discount!

As what you and I have experienced, as students and now as parents and leaders, we know that sending children to school or giving them education is the heaviest and hardest burden – the most difficult problem of parents today, and it is usually the mother who feels it the most. Education is the most difficult because we have food, clothing, shelter (also medicine) as the first priorities and usually, there is not enough money left for education after we have exhausted our strength, thoughts, time, sweats and tears in difficult toil! When it comes to education, we as parents and as a barangay seem to have run out of resources and ways, so much so that very few of our children have gone to school!

So, we need other means. Other ideas which are both WISE and LOVING.

NEKBP is one of those ideas.

All it takes for NEKBP to succeed is : commitment – dedication – diligence – sincerity to love both others and our selves – (“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the most effective principle of Leadership) -- fervor to serve and not to be served (Matthew 20 & John 13 ) – and the aim that in serving the poor, we also do it because we love the eternal Father and out of gratitude, we help the poor in His behalf, for His sake, for His pleasure and happiness, and, so to speak, in His absence! (Matthew 25: 40; I John 5: 1).

Wel, let us be the new breed of Leaders! Let us not follow those trapos who are mainly responsible for the present mess and crisis in our country! They detach Christianity and Morality from Politics. Yes, they go to church, but the church’s teachings don’t go with them to the halls of power! Therefore, they have become politicians without Christianity and Morality, thus, heads without heart.

We will be different. How? It’s simple: We will be Leaders of God – His servant–leaders who implement His Law: You shall love the Father your God above all and your neighbor as yourself.

How?

NEKBP is one way!

See you this afternoon, my good friend! If I can’t make it, please inform me of your next session. My number: 0910-6447-828.

Very sincerely yours,

Cocoy