To His Excellency President Benigno Aquino III, to the founders who gave PBSP its original vision, to our trustees who continue to enlarge that vision, to our members and partners who provide support— thank you for joining us tonight.
We come together to honor a single powerful idea – the idea that business can do more than do business, that WE can change lives, and transform society into something more than a marketplace. This occasion should also remind us that we’re tied together in life, in this nation – that a person becomes human not as individual, but in community, that the despair of one touches us all.
]]>Thank you, Secretary Domingo.
Thank you. Please sit down.
I’m sure the good secretary is as tired as I am today.
Chairman Manny Pangilinan; PBSP pioneers and founders: Mr. Washington Sycip, Mr. Sixto Roxas, Ambassador Howard Dee, Ambassador Bienvenido Tan; to the PBSP Board of Trustees, the Executive Director, my kuya, Rapa Lopa; Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps; PBSP Executive Committee management and staff; Cabinet members present, namely: Secretary Soliman, Purisima, Carandang and Abad; distinguished members of the business community and international donor partners; honoured guests; mga minamahal ko pong kababayan:
Magandang gabi po sa inyong lahat.
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