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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 877, September 23, 1996 ]

AUTHORIZING THE TAHANAN OUTREACH PROJECTS & SERVICES, INC. (TOPS), TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL FUND CAMPAIGN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 575, series of 1995, the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), in order to enable to it raise sufficient funds to attain the laudable goals of mainstreaming disadvantaged children, normalizing socially maladjusted youth, hand-in-hand with its family through innovative approaches, dynamic strategies, positive attitudes and skills, was authorized to conduct a national educational fund campaign for the period from May 5, 1995 to May 5, 1996, thereby serving as a model for related rehabilitation outreach programs;

WHEREAS, the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), as the only private, non-profit organization with objectives directed to these noble ends, deserves nationwide support and needs additional time to raise funds;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), to conduct a national fund campaign for a period of one year effective upon the promulgation of this Proclamation.1aшphi1

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 23rd day of September in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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