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Tuesday, September 07, 2021

NOTE FOR THE RECORD, 07 Sept 2021

Nestor Maniebo Pestelos

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This is to acknowledge the donation amounting to Php 24,877.10 in honor of Cesar Rivera Reyes, who passed away recently in Sydney, Australia. Cesar is husband of Milwida Sevilla-Reyes, our former classmate at the Quezon National High School in Lucena City.

The fund will support the Young Agripreneurs Kahayag Association Project (YAKAP) an initiative of the Kahayag Farm and Social Action Center to promote entrepreneurship among young people in the all-important agriculture sector which has been affected adversely by aging farming population and lack of interest among the young. 

The YAKAP initiative was inspired by the lifelong advocacy of the late Zacarias B. Sarian to make farmers entrepreneurs to get them out of poverty. 

Previous donors to the initiative included the late Zac Sarian himself; close friend Milwida Sevilla-Reyes; Lyda Jara-Canson; and Lanita Pamaran Klainatorn. Gen. Charlie Alejandrino, Mil's former student, facilitated earlier donations shortly after the start of the pandemic. 

In-kind donors included the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) of Bohol who donated and planted 80 fruit tree seedlings. #YoungAgripreneurs #SurvivingTogether #SurvivingThePandemic