Vol 40 Issue 9 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ALPHA PHI OMEGA GREATER LOS ANGELES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION September 2020
APOGLA DISTRIBUTES GOODS TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES By Brod Dan Nino
(Author’s notes: The following article is a reprint from four Fil-Am newspapers in Greater Los Angeles namely: Weekend Balita, US Asian Post, Philippine Tribune and Philippine Post (digital) on September 12 this year. It’s about our August 30 APOPGLA C-3’s first Humanitarian Service Project that was implemented on the ground by APO Gamma Kappa (Ateneo) Alumni Association. So our APOGLA brethren and various publics can participate, more information will soon appear in our website, Facebook page and Tri-fold which are all under construction).
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s an offshoot of the joint Emerald Lantern Group and Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA’s fund-raising dinner dance in October 2019, the Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines) Greater Los Angeles (APOPGLA), Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA, Arizona-based Lichauco Heritage Foundation and APO Gamma Kappa (Ateneo) Alumni Association, picked up the pieces and joined forces to initiate the Operation Gabay in Barangay Sangandaan, Quezon City, Philippines. APOPGLA appointed its implementing arm on the ground, the Manila-based APO Gamma Kappa in the distribution of goods like diapers, wipes, alcohol, vitamins, powdered milk, five kilos of rice and cash of PHP 1,000 each child for their medications who belong to 21 families of GABAY GROUP on August 30. These were received by the parents of Gabay kids as the children were Continued on page 4