Young FilAms raise funds for a school in Pampanga
Written by Ms. Confuse on Friday, May 09, 2008Valerie Barrios and Steve Juh, bot second-generataion young professional Filipino Americans based here, recently organized a fundraising activity to connect a public high school in the Philippines to the Internet.
Through the fundraising event tagged "Cocktails and Bytes" an amount close to $8,000.00 was raised for project Gilas. The amount raised to help connect a public school in Pampanga, a province in the Philippines. Through this, about 500 students will gain acess to a world of information and knowledge through the Internet.
More than a hundred guests, consisiting of young Filipino American professionals based in New York City as well as other mainstream Americans, attended the event, which was held in Paramount Hotel on April 10, 2008.
A minimum fee of $35 per ticket was charged for the advance donors and $40 ticket for the walk-in guests. Gilas T-shirt were also sold in the event. All the net proceeds of the activity, plus the individual donations, were given to Gilas through the Ayala Foundation USA.
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