In support to the RI District 3830 thrusts under Gov Boyet Limon to enhance and protect the environment, the Rotary Club of Makati Bel-Air joined as a sponsor and active participant to the Save Laguna Lake Project Bamboo Reforestation Project, a district wide initiative of participating D3830 Rotary Clubs to save the Laguna Lake Taguig Micro-Watershed.  The project will be undertaken through the joint and collective efforts of the Laguna Lake Development Authority under General Manager Ed Manda and the City of Taguig under Mayor Freddie Tinga.

Together with 33 other Rotary Clubs, RCMBA Real Good President Yolly Abueg assisted by PP Harold Dacumos, District Chair, Rotary Community Corps (RCC), will establish a Rotary Community Corps in Bagumbayan, one of the coastal barangays of Taguig City. To be registered with Rotary International as Barangay Bagumbayan, Taguig City RCC, it shall be composed of local community leaders as well ordinary residents and will serve as the club’s Partner-in-Service. The Bgy. Bagumbayan, Taguig City RCC will be enabled by RCMBA to establish a bamboo nursery to produce initially 1,000 seedlings. After about six months from nursery establishment, these bamboo seedlings will be planted in the 7.5 km critically eroded and silted coastline area within the Laguna Lake Taguig Micro-Watershed.

As part of the project plan, RCMBA is committed to support the training on bamboo nursery production of 3 selected members of Bgy. Bagumbayan RCC scheduled on September, 2008. The three day technical training on bamboo production shall be undertaken by the Laguna Lake Development Authority. Aside from the bamboo project, which is also intended as a source of livelihood to its members, the organized RCC will be supported by RCMBA in other community and vocational service projects such as reduction of child mortality, provision of potable water supply and literacy programs.

Last July 26, 2008, PP Harold Dacumos helped arranged a stakeholders consultative meeting at the Taguig City Hall to present the details of the project with the Taguig City residents and community organizations coming from the 18 barangays.  The meeting was participated in by Governor Ed Limon, SAG Edna Sutter, LLDA GM Ed Manda (also IPP of RC Makati Central), Taguig City Councilors Gloria de Mesa and AP Bartolome and Mr. Espital of the Taguig City River and Lake Management Office.