McDonald's turns over Bahay Bulilit to city
Ronald McDonald turns over the symbolic Bahay
Bulilit key to Mayor Jerry Treņas. Also in photo are
DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral (beside Treņas),
Brgy. Capt. Abelardo Salting (partly hidden), and
Mcdonald's officials.
Four months after its groundbreaking the first ever McDonald's Charities Bahay Bulilit outside Metro Manila located in Brgy. Benedicto, Jaro was formally opened Wednesday, April 19, with Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperenza Cabral as guest.
The Bahay Bulilit would serve as a daycare center that would directly benefit children six years old and below. It is the seventh in the entire country the others located in Quezon City, Manila, Pasay, Mandaluyong, Makati and Taytay.
Bing Bachoco, Senior Vice President of McDonald's, said McDonald's Charities aims to build 100 Bahay Bulilit units all over the Philippines which they pledged to Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she was still DSWD Secretary.
Bachoco thanked the city government under Mayor Jerry P. Treñas for its all-out support to the project.
The city government provided the lot where the Bahay Bulilit was built. The training and learning aspect on the other hand is under the care of the DSWD.
Present during the formal turn-over of the Bahay Bulilit to the city government were Mayor Treñas, Brgy. Capt. Abelardo Salting of Brgy. Benedicto, Helen Aquino, Board Member of Mcdonald's Charities, DSWD Regional Director Teresita Rosales, City Councilor Merci Drilon Garcia and other barangay officials of Brgy. Benedicto.