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FSCAP-Makato Chapter President
Tends To Resign

The Federation of Senior Citizen Association of the Philippines (FSCAP)–Makato Chapter president Rafael T. Baylon opts to resign his position to give chance for other active senior citizens to plan, design and implement programs that are responsive to the needs of a progressive family, community and country.

For a senior citizen to be “Huwaran at Yaman ng Bayan” they must hold the youth free of distorted values and destructive attitude to good moral values and ideal constructive attitudes. Mr. Baylon can not go against the trend of mendicancy. He hesitated to submit list of senior citizen members to avail of subsidy for the Office of the Municipal Social Welfare and Development. “How can they guide the youth for them to be assets for a happy family of a progressive community? By being mendicant?” He asked.

Mr. Baylon advised senior citizen members to let their children read Madyaas Pen being published to conquer poverty, famine, ignorance. Its publisher/editor Dr. Ambrosio R. Villorente is chairman of Prov’l. Agricultural and Fishery Council (PAFC). He advocates youth to engage in farming as he used to train them while he headed high position in Agricultural Training Institute and former Bureau of Agricultural Extension.
Mr. Baylon celebrated Sr. Citizen’s Week by planting fruit trees, forage crops and vegetables together with some Sanggunian Kabataan (SK) members of Brgy. Tina, Makato, Aklan. He teaches them proper farming practices to conserve our soil and water and to prevent soil erosion, devastating floods and dust storm from mountainsides.

In his barangay, Baylon sponsored contest among youth in: Fish catching, buri bag making, husking nuts and many other household chores to develop skills needed daily at home, as one among the highlights of barangay fiesta. The youth enjoyed the affair and bring home the idea of developing skills to win the next year contest.

Baylon hopes the Mun. Social Welfare & Development Office may revise program to discourage mendicancy that tends to indolence. These are distorted values and destructive attitudes. By resigning his position, he can still be proud of being “Huwaran at Yaman ng Bayan”. (AT Baylon) /MP