Muntinlupa Junior Rescue Team is a volunteer youth organization that is intended to serve the community in times of disaster, accidents, mass evacuation, large scale crowd-controls, fire, typhoons, earthquakes and/or other calamities that concern the safety of the community. Mayor Aldrin San Pedro of Muntinlupa, Hon. Congressman Ruffy Biazon, Hon. Marita Calalang and the Muntinlupa Emergency Respo
nse Group (MERG or formerly known as Muntinlupa Rescue Team), MJRT, being recognized by the city government of Muntinlupa, stands tall on being the first non-government youth rescue organization in the NCR. MJRT is open to all young people of Muntinlupa, but of course, interest is not enough for the organization to allow its members lay their hands on people who need help in the community. With that, MJRT, co-officiated by the professionals, has been conducting 10-day free training courses every summer about basic life support, fire and disaster management, high-angle rescue, and basic swimming in which free food has also been provided. Serving as the highlight of the organization, each training has been its foundation. The summer training is one of its annual major events. It has been organized since summer of 2008 and this year, 2009, it was again a successful one. Two consecutive years of overwhelming appraisals, the organization is now headed for the next year’s training. But this doesn’t limit its capacities, aside from the training, MJRT do dental missions together with dentists of the PDA (Philippine Dental Association), Dengue awareness and fogging, OPLAN Kaluluwa, Fire prevention seminars, relief giving. The toughest part is MJRT being the community’s acknowledged junior rescuers. Thus, with three years of experience in the rescuer’s world, the organization had responded to several fire disasters, including the massive Muntinlupa City Hall fire, the Salvacion fire and a lot more, had given assistance during typhoons, accidents, and the likes. Assuring for the safety of the people, MJRT won’t give up this duty. The group is so blessed with people that are truly supportive. It’s always been a remarkable feeling to be recognized specially by beloved city officials. MJRT had been invited to several courtesy calls with Hon. Mayor Aldrin San Pedro, Cong. Ruffy Biazon, Vice Mayor Artemio Simundac, Kap. Rene So. Even other organizations seek for the organization’s assistance and cooperation. Other major events in the city that we had given assistance were the Family Day held in Muntinlupa Sports Complex, Boy Scout Jamborette and more. MJRT is proud to say that it now has almost 150 members from district 1 and district 2, each coming from different aspects of life. Some are out of the school youths, some are high school students and some are college students. Though most of the members are active in the organization, they have managed to balance their studies and excel on their different fields. Some are currently taking up political science, biology, electronics and communications engineering, accountancy, nursing and criminology. Some of the members are even currently studying at prestigious schools such as La Salle, UP, MAPUA, PUP, MADOCS, and FEU. Up to this moment, MJRT has helped Muntinlupa in many ways through the organization’s selfless act of being a volunteer whenever the city government or other organizations need assistance, or when calamities or emergency situations have struck the community. With this various achievements, projects and activities, MJRT was awarded by the City of Muntinlupa as one of the Five Most outstanding Youth Organization in Muntinlupa. These were not only recognized by the municipality but also by the whole country for the organization had also been awarded as one of the Ten Accomplished Youth Organization in the Philippines . MJRT proudly brought an honor not only for thyself but also for the city since it’s the first organization in Muntinlupa that had achieved such recognition. As a follow up to these accomplishments, MJRT’s plan to open its organization to the students of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa had been very successful. It now have the MJRT PLMUN Chapter and over 60 students had signed up and are now part of the 150 resident members. To sum it up, the organization is created to maximize the young people’s time and skills through helping people in their community and taking them away from the large possibility of being influenced by drugs or any vices which causes families to fall apart; a balance in which they spend their time more wisely and do more productive things, which in turn gives them the privilege of being role models to their families and neighbors, and enables them to gain respect from people in their society.
