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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 213, January 29, 1988 ]

AUTHORIZING THE EPHPHETA FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND, INC., TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEMBERSHIP AND FUND CAMPAIGN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR.

WHEREAS, for over eighteen years, the Ephpheta Foundation for the Blind, Inc., formerly the Ephpheta, Inc., has engaged in various rehabilitation projects for the blind;

WHEREAS, the Foundation maintains a dormitory for single blind girls and a nursery-kindergarten for the children of the disabled;

WHEREAS, the Foundation is seeking to establish a Home for the Aged Blind and to build one hundred (100) low-cost houses in lots awarded by the National Housing Authority; and

WHEREAS, these activities of the Foundation deserve the full support of the public;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Ephpheta Foundation for the Blind, Inc., to conduct a national, educational, membership and fund campaign for a period of one year, effective upon the promulgation of this proclamation.

I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines to support this humanitarian endeavor by giving generously of their means.ℒαwρhi৷

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO

By the President:

(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary

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