A simultaneous signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Project GILAS and its launching were held at Barangay Linabuan Sur, Banga, Aklan recently.
After the ceremonies, Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez cited the contribution of Ayala Foundation in giving the young people a wider access to quality education.
"We must thank the Ayala Foundation for bringing to Aklan this latest innovation in our education system. I am hopeful that in the years to follow, we will be able to saturate all our public high schools with Project GILAS to assure our parents and mentors that the young people we are releasing from the portals of their alma maters are better prepared and equipped in the ever changing world of technology and communications," Marquez stressed.
The Aguinaldo T. Repiedad, Sr. Integrated School, Linabuan Sur is recipient of Project GILAS complete package. The two other recipients for one-year free Internet usage by PANTELCO, are Bacan National High School, Bacan, Banga and Yapak National High School (Boracay National High School Annex), Malay, Aklan.
Marquez also recognized Panay Telecommunications Company (PANTELCO) headed by Mr. Cedric Sazon for providing the necessary lines and appurtenances so that "our students can surf all the information they need from throughout the world and dispatch news and information to all nooks and corners of the universe."
Ayala Foundation was represented by Mario A. Deriqueto, Director of Center for Social Development (CSD). According to Deriqueto, "Ayala Foundation recognizes its corporate social responsibility, a vast landscape filled with great opportunities to help improve the lives of Filipinos. Though we have covered much ground in 40 years, we realized that more can be done to enrich the lives of Filipinos and help the underprivileged.
"There are more disadvantaged communities and individuals to help, more schools to build, more children to educate, more creative minds to tap, more Filipinos to reach out to and more dreams to fulfill," he further said.
"It is with firm resolve that Ayala foundation works to nurture the Filipino’s mind, body, and spirit through social development projects, environmental programs, information technology, schools, and initiatives in art and culture," he added.
AFI envisions to be a leading foundation committed to national development; to harness corporate social responsibility towards developing social technologies; to provide better quality of life facilitating access to knowledge and learning; and to instill pride in being a Filipino. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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