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ANG GALING MO, BATA! DAY CARE CENTER FEEDING PROGRAM

After two school-years of operation under the over-all coordination of the Corporate Communications Division of the Cintree Management Services, Inc., the Ang Galing Mo, Bata! Daycare Center Feeding Program (AGMBDCFP) has been formally turned over on April 13, 2007 to the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation, Inc. Since it covers three of the four major advocacies of the Foundation, namely, Health, Education and Direct Intervention, the PJLFI has adopted the AGMBDCFP as one of the two flagship social responsibility programs of the P.J. Lhuillier Group of Companies being administered by the PJLFI, along with the Nationwide Scholarship Program which will be called the Ang Galing Mo, Bata! Nationwide Scholarship Program (AGMBNSP).

The AGMBDCFP has been made nationwide in scope, like the other flagship program. Thus, all the eight (8) Regions of the Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshops have at least one daycare center covered by the Program. For the school year 2007-2008, the project will take place in Sitio Sapinit Day Care Center (Antipolo City) for Region 1A with 70 kids, Iskul ni Bobby (Pasig City) for Region 1B with 50 kids, Purok 14 Day Care Center (Baguio City) for Region 2A with 43 kids, Macabaclay Day Care Center and Bungo Daycare Center (Nueva Ecija) for Region 2B with 20 and 25 kids respectively, M.S.W.D.O. Daycare Center (Dasmariñas, Cavite) for Region 3 with 51 kids, Valencia Day Care Center (Ormoc City) for Region 4A with 25 kids, Brgy. 40 Day Care Center (Bacolod City) for Region 4B with 60 kids, and Brgy. 23 Home Based Program (Davao City) for Region 5 with 30 kids. The program is designed to improve the health of poor children during their formative years in day-care centers of local government units to enhance their competitiveness and to improve their chances of entry into formal education. In addition to the daily feeding of nutritious meals and daily giving of multivitamins or supplements, the project will now include as added features annual health forum and medical mission for the covered children and their families.

The basic resources needed to undertake this Project are as follows: (1) day-care center of local government unit; (2) food or funds to buy food to be distributed daily during subject school-year; (3) multivitamins / supplements or funds to buy

multivitamins / supplements to be distributed daily during subject school-year; (4) medical practitioners to undertake annual health forum and medical mission; (5) medicines needed for annual medical mission; (6) social work officer(s) of the local government unit who can prepare monitoring reports, mobilize and supervise children’s parents to undertake daily

marketing, cooking and distribution of food and of vitamins/supplements and be responsible for cleanliness and safety of the food, multivitamins and supplements, and the intake of the same by the children beneficiaries; (7) site secretariat who can undertake handling and regular dispensing to local social work officer of food and multivitamins/supplements or of funds to buy food and multivitamins/supplements, as well as receive monitoring reports from the local social work officer for transmittal to PJLFI as over-all project manager and to the funders, and serve as liaison to PJLFI for other concerns; and (8) public relations materials which can effectively disseminate information about the Project to attract participants for its expansion.

For school-year 2007-2008, the following parties will provide the following resources: City/Municipal Government : resource no. 1; P.J. Lhuillier, Inc.: resources nos. 2 & 7; United Laboratories, Inc. : resources nos. 3, 4 & 5; Local Social Service & Welfare Department: resource no. 6; PR Team of Cintree Management Services, Inc.: resource no. 8; and PJLFI : over-all Project Management

A form Memorandum of Agreement (which is designed to be a template for future participants in the Program) has been proposed with a provision for the execution of Deeds of Donation in favor of the local government unit which owns the Daycare Center to cover the cash, goods or services donated by funders of the project to serve as motivation for future participants who can then claim the donations to the local government units as full tax deductions.

Initially, for all nine covered daycare centers resources nos. 2 and 7 will be provided by the P.J. Lhuillier, Inc.; while resources nos. 3, 4 and 5 by the United Laboratories, Inc. (Unilab). But in the future, the PJLFI will be inviting other individuals and/or institutions to participate as providers of said resources, although the Unilab is given first priority to provide resources 3, 4 and 5 for as long as they are willing to do so. In all additional daycare centers which may be funded in the future by other individuals or institutions, over-all project management will also be provided by PJLFI, site secretariat by the PJLI and public relations materials by the PR Team of CMSI, so that all that the future participants will provide are the funds or goods needed for the project. Actual delivery of the service to their chosen beneficiaries will be undertaken by the PJLFI and PJLI.

With other funders joining the Program, the coverage of the same may be expanded to such proportion as would really make a difference in the lives of our poor countrymen. For, not only will the Program provide the needed nutrition for our malnourished pre-schoolers, but it will, likewise, motivate them to proceed with the formal education which is their best weapon against poverty.

Pre-schoolers of the following daycare centers were the beneficiaries of the Program during the past two school years:

2005-2006

Region 1A: Sitio Culasisi Daycare Center (Antipolo)
Region 1B : Iskul ni Bobby (Pasig City)
Region 2A : Brilliant Minds Day Care (Caloocan City)
Region 2B: Sitio Cacutud Day Care Center (Pampanga)
Region 5 : Ang Balay ni Santa Domenica (Davao del Sur)

2006-2007

Region 1B : Iskul ni Bobby (Pasig City)
Region 2B : Matagpo Daycare Center (Tarlac)
Region 4A : Cabancalan Daycare Center (Cebu)

In the coming years, the PJLFI will be concentrating on the expansion of its two flagship corporate social responsibility projects, the AGMBDCFP and the AGMBNSP, since it firmly believes that education is the best weapon against poverty.