The "Alay sa Bayan" donation can is displayed in one of the Cebuana Lhuillier pawnshops.

Almost seven years have passed since the incorporation on December 28, 2000 of the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation, Inc. (PJLFI) as the Lhuilliers’ instrument of corporate social responsibility. And this seventh year has just been as fruitful as the rest. At the forefront of the Foundation’s accomplishments for the year is the Nationwide Scholarship Program which again reaped bountiful harvest of thirty-two (32) graduates for the school-year 2006-2007, fifteen (15) or ALMOST ONE HALF of whom graduated with honors and/or special awards (1 Magna Cum Laude, 7 Cum Laudes and 7 Special Awardees). This augurs well for the Foundation’s system of selecting its scholars (which includes, among others, the panel interview of both the student applicants and their parents to assure full

support for the students at home). The year’s harvest has raised the total number of graduate scholars to 114, 45 of whom with honors and/or special awards (5 Magna Cum Laudes, 22 Cum Laudes and 18 Special Awardees).Aside from said continuing Nationwide Scholarship Program, the PJLFI has likewise embarked on other projects which touched the lives of thousands of beneficiaries. Some of the other projects undertaken by the PJLFI on its seventh year are: (1) the Bicol Relief Operation; (2) the Ang Galing Mo Bata Daycare