MBFI President Aniceto Sobrepeña hands over their donation to PPI Executive Director Ariel Sebellino

NEWS IN PHOTO. Mr. Aniceto ‘Chito’ Sobrepeña, president of the Metrobank Foundation Inc. (MBFI) awards the check of P70,000.00 (seventy thousand pesos) to PPI executive director Ariel Sebellino to support its ongoing outreach program for journalism and communications students. It will fund initially a half-day forum in Manila in cooperation with the Philippines Communication Society (PCS) which will be in charge of inviting students and teachers.

The institute continues to extend its outreach program to non-PPI members in Palawan and Caraga (Surigao and Butuan) through a modest funding from Nickel Asia Corporation (NAC) and GIZ-German Development Cooperation.

Long-time friends of PPI, JB Baylon from NAC who was formerly with The Coca-Cola Export Corporation and Wolfgang Moellers who used to be with Konrad Adenauer Foundation, approached the institute for the conduct of two separate seminars.

NAC supported the seminar on journalism excellence and ethics seminar in Puerto Princesa for the Palawan-based journalists in October while GIZ funded the seminar-workshop on peace reporting in Butuan City for the Caraga-based journalists in November.

In a rare occasion, the PPI led by Luzon trustee Elnora F. A. Cueto finally had the chance to meet former ANC host and president of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) Atty. Adel Tamado, now the new director for public affairs and communications of The Coca-Cola Export Corporation (TCCEC). He replaced Jose Bayani Baylon.

During Coke’s thanksgiving party for its 100 years at The Peninsula Manila, Tamano was formally introduced to the press and project partners, including the PPI by its president Guillermo Aponte.

Cueto handed to them some tokens from the last National Press Forum and had a tete-a-tete on the PPI-TCCEC partnership which will culminate in December next year.