Background
Community service characterizes the life and value of a Scout. It is the way for a Scout to directly and comprehensively apply the principle “to help other people at all times.” It has to be emphasized, therefore, that any Scout who deserves to be called outstanding should not fall short of this expectation. Above anything else, his distinction in the service he rendered to the community must ultimately define his honor of being an Outstanding Scout.
The TOBSPA Award for Community Service was launched in 2005 to highlight the value of Scouts’ community service work. The recipient of this Award is selected based on his pivotal role in the implementation of the community service project, impact of the project to the community, ingenuity, resourcefulness and personal sacrifices in the implementation strategies, and extent of community participation.
All the candidates for the year’s TOBS Search are likewise the eligible candidates for the TOBSPA Award for Community Service. The recipient of the Award may not necessarily be one of the year’s TOBS Awardees.
Honorees
Every year, the TOBSPA Award for Community Service is named after an individual who had created an impact in his community, or had performed his work, through Scouting. By and large, the honor is a recognition of the honoree’s work which demonstrates the very essence of duty to God and country—a service marked with sense of passion and relevance, and unwavering faith in the Scouting Movement as a vehicle to promote constructive social transformation through knowledge and value acquisition, application and transfer. The honoree’s work should be a testimony of heroism through self-giving—a virtue that is most called for as it stands for hope and inspiration, in the midst of life’s crises, a compelling proof that the world needs the Scouting Movement to equip men and women of all nations to value life, the dignity of people, by doing a good turn to others, at all cost.
It is TOBSPA’s privilege to present the TOBSPA Award for Community Service after these exceptional Scouts:
2009 Dr. Isidro D. Cariño
2008 Scout Rogelio R. Vicencio
2007 Scout Oscar R. Joson
2006 Scout Aries C. Espinosa
2005 Scout Valeriano I. Abello
Awardees
2009 Scout Romulo Owen A. Corporal III
2008 Scout Ray Michael C. Adlawan
2006 Scout Wilson Lloyd C. Estero
2005 Scout Marwin Jogenes DC Serrano