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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 327, June 12, 2000 ]

AUTHORIZING THE SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGES PHILIPPINE TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL FUND CAMPAIGN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR

WHEREAS, SOS Childrens Villages Philippines is a duly registered non-stock and non-profit social welfare organization providing family-oriented care and education of orphaned and socially abandoned children to promote the individual childs care, support, security, welfare and the fuller development of their physical, intellectual, social, moral and spiritual well-being;

WHEREAS, SOS Childrens Villages Philippines has faithfully and steadily pursued its initial goals and development for the last 33 years thereby benefiting hundreds of children in the various Childrens Villages and supporting youth facilities in Calbayog, Cebu, Davao, Lipa, Manila and Tacloban;

WHEREAS, by virtue of this long standing service to community, now our Country benefits from the transformed and changed lives of the SOS integrated and independent children thereby making them productive citizens and practiced members of society;

WHEREAS, to effectively carry out its noble objectives and successfully implement its program, the organization needs the financial and moral support of the public.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the SOS Childrens Villages Philippines 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 12Th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary

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