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CNMI tops contributions to ‘Tuloy Aral Program’
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Posted on Feb 04 2006
Contributions from the CNMI topped the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s “Tuloy Aral Program” last year.
According to CNMI Welfare officer Mary Dait last Friday, Filipino workers and their families on Saipan sponsored the most number of indigent students in the Philippines, compared with other Filipino workers in other parts of the world in 2005.
Dait said that Filipino workers on Saipan sponsored 31 students.
The “Tuloy Aral Program” helps children from poor families in the Philippines by sending them to elementary or high school.
“I am proud of the Filipino workers on Saipan for their generosity. As of Dec. 31, 2005, Saipan Filipino workers sponsored the highest number of scholars, followed by those in Japan,” said Dait.
Dait said workers in Japan sponsored between 28 and 29 students in 2005, while workers in Riyadh sponsored five.
The success of the “Tuloy Aral Program” was highlighted during OWWA’s graduation and award ceremonies held last Saturday night at Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan in Garapan.
The “Tuloy Aral Program” allows a sponsor to donate at least $100 (about Php 5,300) to the program that will cover the recipient-student’s tuition and expenses for books and other school supplies for a year.
OWWA has partnered with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office and the Department of Social Welfare and Development to implement the program.
Saipan-based sponsors of the “Tuloy Aral Program” were Labor Rep. Joan Lourdes Lavilla, the Marianas Filipino Women Association, KAMPIL, Visminda, University of the Philippines Alumni Association CNMI Chapter, Bayani Association, U.S. Office of Insular Affairs Saipan field representative Jeff Schorr and wife Hannah, and Mary Lou Madrazo.
Other sponsor were Nelida Atalig, Dolores Mabuti, Veminda Castro, Gabriel de Guzman, Ladyvir Canape, Socorro Borja, Tan Holdings Employees Association, United Filipino Organization, Movers, Roland and Ruby Pamintuan, Renato Abarquez, Florenda Miranda, Ignacio Banadera, and the Alliance of Filipino Organizations.
