Abs Damahan
Dou Philanthropists’ assisted 535 Basilan schoolchildren
Philam Chair Jose Cuisia handed out worth of PhP1.5M pesos checks to PBSP Chair Manuel V. Pangilinan to fund the program of 9th year Aid for Basilan Children or ABC project being implemented by PBSP (Philippine Business for Social Progress) In Basilan Island.
The ABC helps 535 schoolchildren with scholarship assistance, books, and school supplies to prevent them from dropping of school due to poverty and disruption in community life. Aid for Basilan Children Projects assists conflict-affected children in the aftermath of the siege of Lamitan town in 2001.
As I have posted in my facebook account ‘If only not thru education I might be a dreaded commander of the lawless elements of my province-Basilan in the 70s and 80s’. But because of education all my life and family becomes a good citizen of the republic to obey law and order of the state.
I still remember the privilege speech of the late Congressman Wahab M. Akbar in the 14th Congress before he was killed in car-bombed at the ground floor of the Batasan Complex, he said ‘Instead of sending more military troops to my province why not sending more financial aids, more government funds, livelihood assistance and government projects to the LGUs –Basilan’, which I think, this is likely a correct approach and strategies of the national government to resolve a long decades of an internal conflicts that cannot find a genuine, permanent, lasting and peaceful resolution of over 40 years Mindanao conflicts.
For the good deeds of philanthropists’ works of Chair Cuisa and Chair Pangilinan this should sustain not only in Basilan, but the rest provinces of conflict-affected areas in Mindanao and elsewhere provinces of the Philippines who needed most financial assistance for most valued education of the rural children, who cannot afford for higher education. My good friend Armand Dean Nucom has also the same programs for child in the conflict-affected area books launching intended for young’s-armed resistance.
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