120 scouts join district encampment
TACLOBAN CITY- A “Joint Boy Scout-Girl Scout District Encampment” was successfully held at the Bagacay Elementary School (BES), this city, from October 26-27.
The joint encampment, which was held in line with the Scouting Month celebration this month, was the first significant scouting activity in this city since the Boy Scout of the Philippines (BSP) Tacloban Associate Council was officially launched last October 9, according to BES Principal and BSP board member Imelda Cayas.
Cayas said that around 120 boys scouts and girl scouts from five public elementary schools belonging to the Tacloban City Division District IV participated in the two-day encampment.
The schools that sent scouts to join in the two-day activity were Mercyville Elementary School (MES), Bagacay Elementary School (BES), Tigbao-Diit Elementary School (TDES), Panalaron Central School (PCS), and Sagkahan Elementary School (SES).
“The encampment provided an opportunity for young scouts, boys and girls, to do useful things for themselves and to others and to be trained in scout craft and to inculcate in them the value of patriotism, civic consciousness and responsibility, courage, self-reliance, discipline and kind virtues, and good moral values,” Cayas stressed.
“The activity also enhanced the camaraderie of the participants and provided an opportunity for bonding with each other as scouts and scouters,” she added.
During the two-day encampment, scouts joined in different activities like collage-making, knot-tying, obstacle race, relay, spiritual forum, hike-out and picnic at sunrise held at a park in an area near the San Juanico Bridge
The scouts also participated in an emergency rescue drill conducted by the Red Cross and in a campfire program held at the BES grounds Monday evening, which was also attended by District Supervisor Mark Chester Tamayo and BSP Tacloban Council officials Manuel Marta and Edilberto Meñano.
“All the activities went well, as planned. We want to extend our gratitude to all those who supported the endeavor, especially City Mayor Alfred Romualdez,” Cayas said. According to her, Mayor Romualdez, who is also the chairman of the BSP Tacloban Council, has ensured that ample supply of water was available for use of all camping participants.
The Tacloban City BSP Council was chartered as an associate council and was separated from its mother council, which is the Leyte province, only in September 19, 2009. (Jose Rodriguez T. Señase)
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