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Born as the 5th child in a family of 11, Juvelyn Glorio learned to juggle both work and study when her father died due to a lung problem. With the meager salary as a laundry woman, Juvelyn’s mother could not fully support them.

Anita Wasquin didn’t need any diploma to prove what she’s good at — being a businesswoman. Growing up in a less fortunate family, Anita made a promise to herself that even though she wasn’t able to finish elementary, she will strive hard to give a comfortable life for her family.

“Small but terrible” — this idiomatic expression is one that would describe Mary Grace Bayalas. A woman with a small figure but with a terribly big heart of service for others, Grace is a 29-year-old midwife-entrepreneur from San Fernando, Cebu; the fourth of nine children, Grace has become one of the breadwinners of the family as she supports her three younger siblings to school.

On its 52nd year, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) will continue paddling together to achieve its goal of building happy and livable communities.

Taking a bigger step towards improving the employability of the Senior High School learners, the Education Development Unit of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-EDU) officially launched Cebu’s first public ICT Center of Excellence at Liloan National High School Annex – Don Bosco Campus last 12 November 2018.

True to its purpose of providing an efficient learning environment to the schoolchildren of Cebu, the Education Development Unit of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-EDU) collaborated with the Municipality of Sibonga for the construction of 12 new classrooms.