Our Story - JCI Cebu-Mactan Channel in a nutshell

FRESH from the 2005 Davao National Convention and inspired by JCI ACHIEVE that he took during the 2005 JCI Philippines Academy in Davao City, JCI Mem Cerwin T. Eviota, NG, had proposed to repackage JCI Mactan Dagami to make it fit the profile he had in mind as he learned from the new JCI program for chapter development.

The founder of that LOM created in 1998 at first welcomed the idea and Eviota's parallel proposal to purge the LOM's roster of membership to give it a fresh re-start, and encouraged Eviota to proceed with his plan to form a core group.

Eviota sold the new idea to his 2001 and 2002 BOD batchmates in JCI Cebu, who have since 2003 been inactive from JCI, the past EVP of JCI Candahug Liberation in Tacloban City who has relocated by professional call in Cebu and two recent past national presidents of the Philippine Junior Jaycees.

But on the day before the core would have its organizational meeting on October 19, 2005, the founder of the other LOM changed his mind and wanted to keep the original LOM name for reasons significant to him and his clan. As he saw the progress Eviota and the core team had accomplished, he instead encouraged them to pursue creating a new LOM.