Laoag City’s Barangay 15 senior citizens support ‘clean and green’ program

THE Barangay 15 Senior Citizens Association of Laoag City, Inc. was established and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on September 28, 2004, and with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), on September 30, 2004, for the purpose to assist and help fellow-senior citizens to achieve its noble mission of providing excellent self-help, self-propelled, and sustainable physical program through individual undertakings within the home, group activities, and to help the community become a better place to live in. Besides, the association submits its annual reports to the office of the SEC at Baguio Extension Office, financial statements of operation, balance sheet and cash flow for the last two years stamped by BIR, and the annual General Information Sheet (GIS). Also, it pays community tax, and annual registration to the BIR.

One of the program of activities in support of the city government project, is the “Clean and Green” to mitigate climate change. But the people to whom it feels more directly accountable are the poor elderlies in the community who toil without complaining, sincerely believing even in the midst of difficulties that there is hope for a better tomorrow. For there are those who tell themselves how much they would give if they could only have the wealth of another. But often that is the end for them. Congratulating themselves over the big things they should do if they could. While they are making no effort to use the opportunities that are actually theirs.

The association in order to survive and succeed in its involvement in greening the community, sanitation and ecology-environment, it stands on its own. A self-propelled activity in “Tending a Home Garden” purposely for a clean environment, fresh air we breathe, beautification  of our homes, and help in the physical fitness opportunities in the form of cultivating, watering, arranging and caring for the plants every early morning and late afternoon.

To help people see new beauties though working together, new beauties in tending gardens, new beauties in cleaning and greening the community and new beauties that are supremely worthwhile. All these, add more years to our lives.

So when the day of reckoning comes and we failed, still we are a victor. If we fall short, we are still a victor. If we undertake to help others and blunder, still we will be crowned even for our blunders, because it was under the impulse of loving and helping others.

It is easy to run with a crowd. But how hard when you run alone. It is easy to stand with the multitude, but it is not easy to stand alone. That is the essence of what the Senior Citizens of Brgy. 15 in working together in support for a clean environment.

TENDING A HOME GARDEN TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE. Top-Bottom: Garden of Romana and the late Engr. Juanito Julian, located at the backside of their home at 80 P. Acosta Street; and Mariano Eugenio, located in front of his home, at 120 Nolasco Street; and the garden of Segundina and Engr. Charito Julian, Sr., located in front of their home at 72 P. Acosta Street, all in Barangay 15, Laoag City.