Ang tanong ko sa ating graduates, handa na ba kayo sa pagharap nyo sa inyong kinabukasan? Are you ready to overcome any hardships that you may encounter? Ready ba kayong tanggapin na mahirap ito, pero i-oovercome nyo? Ngayon, pagdating ng panahon na kaya na ninyo, handang handa ba kayong tumulong sa pamilya?
-- Ms. Carmen Linda Atayde, Executive Director | SM Foundation, Inc.
“Good governance and responsible citizenship’: this is the tagline I use for my advocacy.”
- Jesus P. Estanislao
The Spaniards came to colonize the Philippines thinking of gold and spices. Christianization of the native was an important goal but not an urgent one. The Spanish colonizers wanted to get rich first.
This bit of history was cited by Dr. Jesus P. Estanislao, in a forum on “Good Governance and Its Sustainability: Towards Dream Philippines”, last April 10, at Whitewoods Convention and Leisure Hotel in Silang Cavite.
After witnessing the graduation of its second batch of scholars, SM Foundation has given scholarship to another set of 50 scholars from Aurora, Cebu, Bohol, Bukidnon, and Davao del Norte.
During the get-together with the 3rd batch of scholars and some graduates, Ms. Carmel Linda Atayde, Executive Director of SM Foundation listened to the stories of scholars from many provinces who are mostly from Mindanao. These youth who have nearly forgotten to dream but upon learning the opportunities at Dualtech Center and the assistance given by SM Foundation were inspired to hold on to their aspirations and strive to be better individuals for their families in the provinces.
Below are the stories related to ABS-CBN CSR efforts.
Out of 105 million Filipinos, less than 5 percent is a technical-vocational graduate. College students account for 5 percent of the population, and yet 80 percent of them drop- out of college. But 95 percent of the 2 to 3 million tech-voc students graduate and 70 percent of them land jobs while most of the college students are hard up getting jobs.
“Bawat isa sa atin, may mga bitbit na pangarap sa buhay. Dala- dala natin ang mga pangarap na ito saan man tayo dalhin ng pagkakataon.”
On September 10, ABS- CBN Integrated Public Service Office launched an AVP for Dualtech Center during its Commencement Exercises. It was aired in TV Patrol Southern Tagalog, with field reporter Kevin Dinglasan, and simulcast over ABS- CBN TV- 24 Lucena City, TV-11 Occidental Mindoro, TV- 21 Calapan, TV- 46 San Pablo, TV- 40 Taytay/ Jalajala and TV-32 Tagaytay.
