Greetings everyone! I am Donna Rica Abugao, your speaker today.

I would like to welcome

and thank you all for attending today in behalf of our team.

As I was pondering on where and what advocacy I should join, my mind drifted to once Miss
Universe Catriona Gray once said, “Education is a solution to poverty; it’s something you can
give a child that can never be taken away”. This saying must be “gasgas” as you said in
tagalog but its meaning behind is a fact and crucial for all of us because education is like the
key to success in order to get to where you want to go with the help of your dream and
education do not limit you to do anything as long as you strive for it until you reach what
you’ve been aiming for. You can be a doctor, a lawyer, scientist or whichever you want to
be, so poverty is not a limitation to stop for our team wants to address this and here to help
children make their dreams come true. Also, we aim to promote and give them good quality
education that isn’t a privilege for everyone but a right.