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CFO gets 6.1M for outrreach program
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The leaders of two Filipino organizations – one in the US and the other in Germany – traveled back home recently to share their members’ bessings with their compatriots.
In separate ceremonies, Secretary Dante A. Ang of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas received from Ms. Tess Alarcon, Executive Director of Feed the Hungry, and from Ms. Cecilia C. Wollenweber, President of Deutsch-Philippinischer Kulturkreis e.V., checks amounting to P6 million and P122,600.00 respectively.
According to Dr. Dante Ang, the money would go to Lingkod sa Kapwa Pilipino (LINKAPIL), CFO’s outreach program.
Ms. Alarcon said Feed the Hungry collected the money from among its members and benefactors for LINKAPIL’s educational, small-infrastructure, health and medical, and livelihood programs.
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Secretary Dante A. Ang of the CFO
(center) receives the FTH’s donation amounting to P6 million from the
Feed the Hungry, Inc. represented by its Executive Director Ms. Tess
Alarcon (3rd from right). Present during the turn-over ceremony are
FTH officers (left to right) Engr. Pepito Solis, Ms. Percy Solis, Ms.
Lottie Buhain, Mr. Pablito Alarcon and Director Minda I. Cabilao-Valencia
of the CFO’s Projects Management Division (2nd from right). |
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On the other hand, Ms. Wollenweber explained that her group had already identified several LINKAPIL projects that it would finance, among which were the construction of a communal faucet system in Lower Zone Ube, Paknaan, Mandaue City; support for 55 elderly under the ANAWIM Lay Mission Foundation, and scholarship grants for vocational trainees at the Don Bosco Youth Center. The water system will benefit 140 households.
During both ceremonies, Dr. Ang noted the stream of donations only proved the continuing trust of Filipino overseas organizations in the CFO’s leadership and its commitment to help the less fortunate.
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(Seated) Secretary Dante A. Ang of
the CFO and Ms. Cecilia C. Wollenweber of Deutsch-Philippinischer
Kulturkreis e.V. during the turn-over of cash donation at the CFO on
8 February 2008. (From left to right) Present during the ceremony
were CFO Executive Director Jennifer O. Gonzales, Ms. Criscencia
Busch of Deutsch-Philippinischer Kulturkreis e.V., Ms. Norma and Bro.
Tim Duran of ANAWIM Lay Foundation, Inc., John Edward T. Dela Cruz
and Ericson T. Encarnacion (Scholars), Training Director Pedro
Cajanding, Jr. of Don Bosco Youth Center and CFO Director Minda I.
Cabilao-Valencia.
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