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The Municipality of Ronda is taking a step further in its effort to support the implementation of the Integrated Area Development Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-IAD) in the seventh district of Cebu.

“When you crochet for someone, you give her a piece of yourself,” said Sarah Palmares who led a bevy of women during the “Ganchillo at the Azotea” workshop at the Casa Gorordo Museum of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-CGM) last Feb. 3, 2018. “You actually hold every strand of the yarn in each of your creation.”

The Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-BioCon) conducted a farm-planning workshop to its two tree-growing community partners in Barangays Lamesa in Balamban and Bunga in Toledo City last Jan. 24 and 26, 2018, respectively.

A Memorandum of Understanding was entered into by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) with Santa Clara University (SCU) of Santa Clara, California, and the University of San Carlos (USC) of Cebu City, Philippines, for a tripartite collaboration to implement the Aboitiz Social Ventures Cebu. The signing was done last Feb 9, 2017, at SCU, Santa Clara California by Fr. Michael E. Engh, SJ, Ph.D. President of SCU and Jon Ramon Aboitiz, Chair and CEO of RAFI. Fr. Dionisio M. Miranda, SVD, SthD, President of USC signed the agreement a week after in Cebu City.

The Education Development Unit of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-EDU) has partnered with the Local Government Unit of Tabuelan for the school rehabilitation program. A total of nine classrooms—three-classroom Marcos Type Building in Kanluhangon Elementary School and a two-storey with six-classroom in Tabuelan Central School—were rehabilitated and completed on the early week of January this year.

Cebu’s 7 th District Adhoc Council gathered for the second time this year on Thursday, February 8 to discuss the District’s development through the Integrated Area Development Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-IADP).