MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 136
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Rotary Dist 3870 DGE Gilda Go appoints Community Corps chair By Mark Francisco
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otary International District 3870 Governor-Elect Gilda “Gigi” Go has appointed Gingoog City-based businesswoman and civic leader Maggie Gudella Zapanta-Tse as the new Rotary Community Corps in the district for RY 2023-2024. A Rotary Community Corps is a group of non-Rotarians who share their commitment to changing the world through service projects. Rotary Community Corps members plan and carry out projects in their communities and support local Rotary club projects. Sponsored by a Rotary club, a Rotary Community Corps leverages Rotary’s network, brand and mentorship by partnering with clubs to
plan and implement service projects. Rotary Community Corps increase Rotary’s impact and expand its reach by bringing the knowledge and talents of local people to strengthen their community through sustainable projects. There are more than 11,000 Rotary Community Corps in the world. They are active everywhere Rotary is present: in urban and rural areas and in both developed and developing countries. With this new development, Zapanta-Tse will join the Rotary International District 3870 leadership team for the next year, kicking off this June, overseeing 44 clubs in the provinces of Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro City.
Maggie Gudella Zapanta
bang said beneficiaries of the activity were solo parents of each barangay, the Ummahat, and Ustadzes in the municipality. They were given rice assistance, grocery items and non-food items. The local government partnered with the Office of Maguindanao del Sur Vice-Governor Nathaniel Midtimbang where they gave each beneficiary 5 kilos of rice and grocery items, while non-food-
items were distributed by the Bangsamoro Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD). “We served around 100 solo parent beneficiaries, 200 Ummahat and 108 Ustadzes,” the lady mayor emphasized. As part of the celebration, Vice-Governor Midtimbang led a Ramadhan Symposium which is one of the traditional programs conducted annually during the Holy
Gilda “Gigi” Go
Role in DAM observes Women’s Month, Humanities Xavier Ateneo Campus conducts Ramadhan Symposium of the Future Stressed By Analisa P. Espanola
Datu Anggal Midtimbang (DAM), Maguindanao Del Sur --- This municipal government successfully obser ved on Thursday, March 30 the culmination program of the annual women’s month celebration with the theme, “We for Gender Equality and Inclusive Society.” Mayor Mary Joy "Hadja Meriam" Uy Midtim-
Month of Ramadhan. Guest speakers during the symposium were Ustadz Saguir Salendab, Ustadz Abdulhamid Usman, Ustadz Abubakar Usman, and Ustadz Muslimin Limba. “This symposium is very relevant. We invited our guest speakers to impart knowledge about the teachings of Islam to the town residents,” ViceGovernor Midtimbang said.
Its’ Humanities Program will continue to play a critical role in the Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (Xavier Ateneo) Campus of the Future soon to rise at Manresa. “For Xavier Ateneo to remain an authentic Jesuit university, we should continue to have humanities subjects in its higher education curriculum,” Xavier Ateneo President Fr Mars P. Tan SJ PhD affirmed in his welcome remarks during the TAGBO 3 Literary Event held March 23-24, 2023 at the XU Little Theatre. Over 120 guests and participants from 17 universities, schools, LGUs and other institutions coming from as far as Balingasag, Misamis Oriental; Don Carlos and Maramag in Bukidnon; Iligan City, Marawi City, Davao City, and Tacloban City joined the two-day TAGBO 3 which was funded by a grant for Xavier Ateneo’s Literature Program by the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Center for Development in Literature. “Remember, Jesuit education draws its origin from the spirituality of St Ignatius, finding God in all things. Thus, Ignatian spirituality translated into
Jesuit education teaches a basic theological principle: whatever leads us to understand what it means to be human also leads us to understand God,” Fr Mars quoted one Jesuit writer. If the humanities humanize the student and the person, he explained how it also helps the person to understand and discern how God works in his/ her life. For St Ignatius and those in Xavier Ateneo, humanities expands their knowledge about God as they come to know Him more deeply and discern His work in the entirety of creation, the center of which is human life and culture, he added. Similarly, Fr Mars stressed how humanities subjects remain relevant to 21stcentury education, which the XU Campus of the Future envisions to achieve. He cited how former Jesuit Father Generals sought to expound the goal of Jesuit education by answering it with nuancing due to the contexts of their time. Fr Pedro Arrupe coined the phrase, “to form students to become men and women for others”; while Fr Peter Hans Kolvenbach wrote “to enhance competence, con-
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