MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 877

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

WHEREAS,

under Proclamation No. 575, series of 1995, the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), in order to enable to it raise sufficient funds to attain the laudable goals of mainstreaming disadvantaged children, normalizing socially maladjusted youth, hand-in-hand with its family through innovative approaches, dynamic strategies, positive attitudes and skills, was authorized to conduct a national educational fund campaign for the period from May 5, 1995 to May 5, 1996, thereby serving as a model for related rehabilitation outreach programs;

WHEREAS,

the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), as the only private, non-profit organization with objectives directed to these noble ends, deserves nationwide support and needs additional time to raise funds;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS,

President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Tahanan Outreach Projects & Services, Inc. (TOPS), to conduct a national fund campaign for a period of one year effective upon the promulgation of this Proclamation.

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 23

^rd

day of September in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)

RUBEN D. TORRES