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Philippe J. Lhuililer
Chairman of the Board
How fast time flies.
And it is a pleasant surprise indeed to know that the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation has already reached its seventh year since our family established it as our corporate social responsibility vehicle.
We are proud that from its humble start, the Foundation has been consistent in its efforts to address the country’s various social and economic problems in its own way, heeding the call for poverty alleviation through sustained programs covering health, education, entrepreneurship, and special cases needing immediate attention. |
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Furthermore, every year, more young people finish their education with our assistance. For us Filipinos, education is one very important legacy that parents would like to leave to their children, the parents sacrificing a lot to enable their children to have a better chance to succeed in the future.
Aside from educational programs like scholarships and adopting schools, for this year, we are also focused on health matters, especially for the very young through sustaining programs like the Ang Galing Mo, Bata! Day Care Center Feeding Program in partnership with other well-meaning companies, local government units, and groups.
This will remain as our commitment now and in the future.
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Jean Henri D. Lhuillier
President
Our family will always value sharing with the less fortunate and the needy.
And what could be a better way to live out this principle than by establishing our very own Foundation that could work on various programs, expanding them, and sustaining them so that there would be more and more who will benefit?
This is the basic reason why the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation was set up by our family, and I take personal pride in what the Foundation has accomplished through the years, and will continue to accomplish in the years to come. |
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But in addition, I would like to point out that sharing goes beyond the material sense. In the past, our company has responded to calls for assistance in calamity-hit areas and what we have done is not just to respond but also to involve our own employees
I take special pride in what our employees have done in the past, sharing their blessings with those in need even as they themselves may not have much for their own.
Now on our seventh year, the Foundation continues to be a partnership between our family, our companies, and our employees. With this kind of partnership, how can we ever fail?
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Cesar R. Vidal
Editor-In-Chief
Through this issue of the DAYBREAK, the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation, Inc. is happy to report its major accomplishments in its seventh year of existence, from December, 2006 to November, 2007 (having been incorporated on December 28, 2000), namely: (1) the bountiful harvest of 32 total graduates in its various scholarship programs, 15 or almost half with honors and/or special awards (1 Magna Cum Laude, 7 Cum Laudes and 7 Special Awardees; (2) the completion of the ICT Literacy Classes by 369 students of the San Manuel High School in Tarlac City under the Adopt-a-School Program with CAL-Informatics and the Department of Education, with 300 passing the Post Achievement Test administered by CAL-Informatics;(3) the successful holding of the U.P. Singing Ambassadors Fund-Raising Concert which formally introduced the Foundation to the public; ; (4) the PGH Cancer Institute Outreach which was led by no less than the Foundation Chairman, H.E. Amb. Philippe J. Lhuillier and Trustee Philippe Andre Lhuillier; (5) the “Alay sa Bayan” National Can Project |
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with the donation cans for 31 beneficiary institutions already in the pawnshop branches and affiliates stores; (6) the Scholars’ Outreach at Marillac Hills which immersed the Foundation scholars in actual social work; (7) the expansion of the Ang Galing Mo, Bata! Daycare Center Feeding Program to cover all the 8 Regions; and (8) the Bicol Relief Fund-Raising and Operation which made possible the delivery of substantial gift packs to 2,600 families from 22 barangays of 3 cities and 6 municipalities of the province of Albay which were severely devastated by the supertyphoons Milenyo and Reming and the aggravating eruption of the Mayon Volcano .
In these efforts to deliver to our needy brothers and sisters the assistance so generously provided by the Lhuillier Family, the P.J. Lhuillier Group of Companies, and the equally generous employees and cooperative partners, we have not only been guided, but have, in fact, been actually assisted by the Lord Almighty, as clearly manifested in His miracle of the additional 100 gift packs as discussed in the cover story. THIS SHALL FOREVER INSPIRE US IN THE CONTINUED PURSUIT OF OUR MISSION!
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