MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1985

EXTENDING THE TRUST FUND CAMPAIGN OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST FOUNDATION FROM JULY 1, 1980 TO JUNE 30, 1981.

WHEREAS, the Community Chest Foundation of Metropolitan Manila and Rizal and its “Red-Feather” welfare service agencies are engaged in social and human development projects in line with national goals;

WHEREAS, the Community Chest Foundation consolidates into just one campaign the multiple public appeals for contributions to various welfare services by its affiliated agencies;

WHEREAS, Presidential Proclamation No. 1874 issued on July 20, 1979 authorized such consolidated campaign only up to June 30, 1980; and

WHEREAS, the Foundation needs more time to realize its trust fund and campaign goals;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby extend the TRUST FUND CAMPAIGN of the Community Chest Foundation and designate the period from July 1, 1980 to June 30, 1981 for this purpose.

In view hereof, I hereby call upon all residents, whatever race or creed, business, commercial and industrial firms, professional and civic groups, school personnel and employees of private firms and of government offices and agencies within the Metropolitan Manila areas and the entire province of Rizal, to extend all-out support and assistance to the Trust Fund Campaign of the Community Chest Foundation of Metropolitan Manila Rizal, Inc. by giving generously of their means for the promotion of the economic well-being and upliftment of our less fortunate countrymen.

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 28th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant


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