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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 230, January 22, 2000 ]

AUTHORIZING THE TAHANAN OUTREACH PROJECTS & SERVICES, INC., TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL FUND CAMPAIGN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 48, series of 1998, the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services (TOPS), Inc., in order to enable it to raise sufficient funds to attain the laudable goals of mainstreaming disadvantaged children, normalizing socially maladjusted youth, hand-in-hand with his family through innovative approaches, dynamic strategies, positive attitudes and skills, was further authorized to conduct a national educa-tional fund campaign for the period from November 13, 1998 to November 13, 1999, thereby serving as a model for related rehabilitation outreach programs;

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

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc., to conduct a national fund campaign for a period of one (1) 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 22nd day of January in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary

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