MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1947

AUTHORIZING THE KAWAL AWARD FOUNDATION TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL FUND CAMPAIGN FOR THE PERIOD FROM MARCH 1, 1980 TO FEBRUARY 28, 1981.

WHEREAS, the Kawal Award Foundation aims to give public recognition of the vital role played by the soldiers in nation building and to help them alleviate the high cost of education through scholarship grants to deserving members of the family of the awardees; and

WHEREAS, this laudable objectives deserve financial and moral support of the government and private sector.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Kawal Award Foundation to conduct a nationwide fund campaign during the period from March 1, 1980 to February 28, 1981.

I urge all citizens and residents of this country to give generously to the Foundation to enable it to realize its objectives.

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 7th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Staff Director


The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation