Mozilla Service Week - September 14 - 21, 2009

 Mozilla believes everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a good experience when they’re online. By utilizing our community’s talents for writing, designing, programming, developing, and all-around technical know-how, we believe we can make the Web a better place for everyone.

Mozilla has a history of changing the world – and the Web – in all kinds of amazing ways. When members of our community decide to take action, they can make a serious difference:

• - Teach senior citizens how to use the Web.
• - Show a non-profit how to use social networking to grow its base of supporters.
• - Help install a wireless network at a school.
• - Create Web how-to materials for a library’s computer cluster.
• - Refurbish hardware for a local computer center.
• - Update a non-profit organization’s website.
• - Teach the values of the open Web to other public benefit organizations.

Five typical Filipina mom traits — from FilipinaImages.com

My mom has always had this innate sense of care and concern for me and my siblings…often showing it in the most unconventional of ways.  There are times that she seems angry, but in reality, it is her way of expressing her concern.  Like in the popular Filipino narrative, albeit exaggerated, where the kid climbs a tree only to be scolded by the mother who is afraid that her child might slip and fall.

“Juuaaaan!  Bumaba ka nga diyan!  ’Pag nahulog ka diyan, malilintikan ka sa ‘kin!”

FilipinaImages. com has summed up how it is really like to be a Filipina mother.

1. Very loving but strict.
We like to pamper and fuss over our children. But this doesn’t mean we spoil them. We let them express themselves yet we rein them in when they go beyond the boundaries of respect and decency.

2. Self-sacrificing.
We put our children’s needs before our own. We don’t look on it as a sacrifice, merely a matter of course.

Read traits three to five at FilipinaIMages.com.

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Eco-Dash: The Ayala Malls Environment Run

Fine example of volunteerism

By Cerge Remonde - Manila Bulletin

I am all praises for the Kiwanis as I had the most enlightening experience of working with the group, being a former president of the Kiwanis Cebu chapter. My wife, Marit, is also a Kiwanian, being the governor of the Kiwanis South District.

The Kiwanis International, as many of us know, is a global organization of over 260,000 adult member-volunteers in around 8,000 clubs in 96 countries. It encourages service to children and youth using two approaches: To improve the quality of life directly; and the other, to encourage leadership among the youth. This explains why the organization has 7,000 youth clubs with nearly 32,000 youth members all over the world.

The organization helps shelter the homeless, feeds the hungry, mentors the disadvantaged, and cares for the sick. They build schoolrooms and playgrounds, set up livelihood undertakings, conduct medical and dental missions, raise funds for pediatric research, among others.

Read more of the article at the Manila Bulletin website.
Visit Kiwanis.org to know more about the organization.

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