San Juan, Manila residents get free bags of beef

MANILA, Philippines - At least 4,500 bags of beef were distributed yesterday to thousands of marginalized families in San Juan City and Manila in a beef-sharing project of Filipino-Turkish educational group Integrative Center for Alternative Development (ICAD) Foundation.

San Juan City Mayor Guia Gomez lauded the ICAD Foundation’s project, saying it promoted the value of sharing especially among San Juan’s marginalized families, which have been the main beneficiary of the project since 2006.

Gomez was the guest of honor in ceremonies held yesterday morning to start the distribution of three-kilo bags of beef at the ICAD Foundation’s Fountain International School branch along Wilson Street in Greenhills, San Juan.

ICAD Foundation operates two of its international schools in Metro Manila in San Juan – one along Wilson Street near the front of the Cardinal Santos Memorial Hospital, and the other, the Fountain International School along Santolan Road.

The foundation is a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 1996 that operates a total of four international schools in the country- the two Fountain International Schools in San Juan, and two Filipino-Turkish Tolerance Schools in Zamboanga City.

It is affiliated with international foundations that help in establishing schools around the world to promote peace and understanding through education among people of diverse cultures.

Bora Aslan, director of the Fountain International School, said they give away the bags of beef to both Muslim and Christian families, under a beef-sharing project first started in 2001.