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BY JOHNNY NOVERA
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
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ON JANUARY 8, 2015, we wrote about RH and Pantawid Pamilya Program vs. Education in relation to the reunion of âTribu Noveraâ as we call our family.
Like two years ago, as scheduled, we held again Tililipon2016 on Dec. 29th, this time at Anhawan Beach Resort in Oton, Iloilo with the intention of updating an inventory of the educational achievements in our family and continue the legacy of education as originated by our elders.
Our family descended from the spouses Atanacio Novera y Cabalonga and Feliciana Vulcan y Tiapon, both of Oton, Iloilo. Both reached only grade school but even with their limited education, they worked hard and succeeded to send all of us six children to finish college.
Our eldest sister became a lawyer, two of us had business degrees and three completed engineering. We got married and brought to our family also professionals â another lawyer, one public school teacher, one Liberal Arts graduate, one doctor of medicine, and two business graduates.
During our first family reunion in December 2014, which we called Tililipon2014, an inventory of our second generation family members gave us one lawyer, two architects, one graduate in mass communications, one electrical engineer, two civil engineers, five overseas mariners with three rising to become ship captains, three registered nurses, and 14 business graduates.
Now, during Tililipon 2016 falling on Dec. 29, 2016 we added the following professionals to our family inventory:
One lady doctor of medicine who came from the Novera-Amamanglon branch of our family.
From the other Novera descendants, we added one nurse-physical therapist; one medical technologist; one computer science professional; one business graduate who rose to an executive position in an international company just in her mid-20s, and another who lives abroad and acquired a masterâs degree in Anthropology.
We emphasized during our reunion that we will continue to monitor the educational achievements in our clan and see to it that every descendant shall at least finish college.
Considering that, as we said, we came from parents who were able to attend only grade school, we are very proud of the continuing educational achievements of our clan. While we might not have become rich in the material sense of the world, we believe we have improved in some way the economic status of the members of Tribu Novera because our parents worked so hard and left us the legacy of aspiring for college education.
As we face another new year, we reiterate here our strong belief in education as the game changer to improve the life of the Filipino.
We do not believe in exposing pregnant mothers and their babies with their future on the inherent dangers to the unborn in the implementation of the Reproductive Health Law. Our government should also take a look at our theory that it is education and support for college where government should concentrate its resources to lift the economic status of the Filipino and not mendicancy as promoted by the Pantawid Pamilya program that we see today. (For comments or reactions, please e-mail to jnoveracompany@yahoo.com)/PN
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