Palace: Aquino to attend 70th Leyte Gulf Landing anniversary
President Benigno Aquino III will be in Leyte this coming week to attend the anniversary of the Leyte Gulf Landing, Malacañang said Saturday.
Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said Aquino will be at the event this coming Monday.
“I understand the President is scheduled to attend the anniversary of the Leyte Landing…,” she said on government-run dzRB radio.
Earlier, the United States Embassy said US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg also attend the 70th anniversary of the Leyte Gulf Landing.
But before attending the anniversary rites, Goldberg is to go to Palo town in Leyte, to inaugurate rehabilitation projects in areas hit hard by super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) last year.
Palo was among the areas devastated by by Yolanda, which left more than 6,000 dead after pounding the Visayas last November.
An initial schedule showed Goldberg is to go to Barangay Poblacion to turn over 36 sari-sari stores reconstructed and restocked via a program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble.
The program had sought to rehabilitate nearly 1,000 sari-sari stores in Yolanda-hit areas.
Goldberg will also announce the establishment of the Micro Enterprise Disaster Assistance Fund for Resiliency, in partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress