page_title: National Eagle Scouts Association of the Philippines
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: National Eagle Scouts Association of the Philippines / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Gathering of Eagless NESAPh
context_page_description: The National Eagle Scouts Association of the Philippines otherwise known as the “NESAPh” is the Premiere Honor Society of Eagle Scouts in the Philippines. It is a voluntary, non-political, non-sectarian and non-profit association of Eagle Scouts supporting the causes of Scouting and the thrusts of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in accordance with the ideals, purpose and principles, and methods conceived by the Founder of Scouting.
context_section_description: Burdened by the need for a service organization that would unite like-minded Eagle Scouts in his hometown, Paolo Cruz approached Lyel Lim for help in holding ceremonies for a new Brotherhood of Eagle Scouts. The initial Rituals held in Calumpit, Bulacan on 24 February 2018 borrowed from other groups' ideals, practices, and ceremonies in a hodge-podge manner, producing the initial batch of 34 members.
  Four days after, Paolo Cruz proposed that the group will be called as the National Eagle Scouts Association of the Philippines or NESAPh, the Premiere Honor Society of Eagle Scouts in the Philippines.
  On March 14–29, 2018, Lyel and Paolo authored a new monitor and script of accepting new members which later called as the Acceptance Rites. On March 22, 2018, Lyel Lim finalized the NESAPh's logo; borrowed and enhanced from an Eagle Scout group established in the year 2008.
  From the success and progress of latter events, and seeing the need for a similar group being formed in his hometown, Lyel Lim reached out to his friends from the now almost-defunct organization and association of Eagle Scouts. And so, during the ATAS Gathering held at the PICC on 18 October 2019, this reached-out group of Eagle Scouts finalized plans for the second ceremony to be held in San Mateo, Rizal on 24 November 2019. Armed with the success and the promise of bigger and better things to come, NESAPh set forth to consolidate Eagle Scouts from all over the Philippines under its banner. Meanwhile, Jacobb Caones called for a Gathering of Eagle Scouts in his hometown of Quezon City on 10 February 2019, which proved to be a dismal failure in that he realized that working with the old Eagle groups would be futile. All efforts would then be poured into this new energetic group of dynamic Eagle Scouts.
  The third rituals would then be held in Intramuros, which the first time NESAPh accepted female Eagle Scouts as members, followed by the fourth rituals in Chiang Kai Shek College, Manila which would also be the commemoration of the 11th Anniversary of an Eagle Scout Assembly in Olongapo. NESAPh further spread its wings by holding 5th Rituals in Tacloban, and successive rituals in Camarines Sur, Bacolod City, Cabanatuan City, and City of Cagayan de Oro from September to November 2019- thus proving that we are indeed a National Association.
  After the successful travels of NESAPh, accomplishing its membership growth, the Association had its 1st General Assembly and Conclave on 28 February – 1 March 2020 held at in Bulacan which became an avenue to receive almost one hundred Eagle Scouts from Nueva Ecija to Cotabato, ratified the Association's Constitution and By Laws, elect the new set of National Officers, and accepted new members who came from the different islands of the Philippine archipelago.
caption: Gathering of Eagles hosted by Joseph Caones in Quezon City, February 10, 2019
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