The Department of Tourism – Region III recently teamed up with private sector groups and individuals in providing better quality of lives to the less privileged sectors of society thru various communitarian endeavours coupled with social responsibility.
This was the announcement made by Regional Director Ronaldo Tiotuico in a press statement issued recently.
Tiotuico said that year 2008 started with a campaign among the members of civil society and business community to help in establishing the foundation for a more stable social and economic wellbeing of people in the grassroots as a prelude to the establishment of a happy community – one of the basic ingredients of a flourishing tourism and travel society. Pride of place is necessary to make the tourism industry prosper. Pride of place takes roots when the quality of people’s lives is well off.
One of those who responded to the call was the management of ABC Hotel, Mr. Gerard Heinen of Holland, based in the heart of Angeles City who took to heart the need to help build better quality of education in the public school system in Angeles City managed by the Department of Education - Schools Division. In no time at all, Gerard ordered some 200 IBM computer units from a local importer and gave instructions to Dir. Tiotuico to see to it that these units are properly delivered to the elementary school children with special attention to children with disabilities. As of press time, these computer units are still being delivered to their intended school beneficiaries.
Once completed, the Angeles City Schools Division led by its Superintendent Antonieta Tiotuico would become the most ICT-oriented public school in the country. Its effort is ably complemented by non- government organizations like the Ayala Foundation which is also into this initiatives. Today, ABC Hotel continues to demonstrate its social responsiveness by hiring members of the Pampanga Deaf Association in its in-house bakeshop and maintenance department.
Next to respond is an anonymous Chinese businessman in Angeles City whose propensity to help the wayward members of society resulted in the grant of the right equipment and materials in starting up the bread-making enterprise of some twenty (20) members of the Pampanga Deaf Association including the construction of their own bakeshop in one school premises in the city. The same businessman also provides free health feeding program to at least three schools in the city for the last three years already.
Then, the members of the Alliance of Travel and Tour Agencies of Pampanga (ATTAP) led by its President Paz Gozum and Project Chairman Belen Guzman barged into the fray and launched its first golf tournament in October this year to raise funds for the Pampanga Deaf Association. The same funds are to be used for the group’s livelihood programs. The funds were handed to PDA president Jesus Jhuvey Guevarra by Ms. Belen Guzman of ATTAP in the presence of school officials.
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