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Cebuana Lhuillier CEO supports education

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Since its establishment, the Cebuana Lhuillier Foundation Inc. has always made education accessible to Filipinos through the donation of classrooms, learning centers, conference rooms and buildings.

CLFI has consistently administered poverty-alleviation measures to disadvantaged individuals and underserved sectors. Following the “Always Love Schooling” personal philosophy of president and chief executive Jean Henri Lhuillier, a part of CLFI’s education thrust is the implementation of the Alternative Learning System along with initiatives that emphasize further the value of education, nationwide scholarship program, spiritual and social enhancement program and special projects on education.

“The foundation has always espoused the company’s and my personal advocacy of continuing the pursuit of learning, I am more than elated to see this advocacy into fruition through the foundation’s many extensive efforts on education,” said Lhuillier. 

Cebuana Lhuillier CEO supports education
 Cebuana Lhuillier president and chief executive Jean Henri Lhuillier

Developed in 2013 in cooperation with the Department of Education, the ALS program aims to provide out-of-school youth and adults with academic, livelihood, spiritual and social education in the elementary and secondary levels. 

Cebuana  Lhuillier’s ALS program further incorporates five functional fields of knowledge known as FILDS or Financial Literacy, ICT Competitiveness, Livelihood, Disaster Resilience and Sports Development.  

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Since Cebuana  Lhuillier advocates financial inclusion among all Filipinos, CLFI puts a premium on equipping ALS students with financial literacy. The ALS program also conducts livelihood trainings in the field of hospitality management for qualified and interested students.

The foundation also ensures that its ALS centers have the latest equipment to support the students’ learning. CLFI has provided its centers with laptops, projectors and screens, printers, USBs, and has reproduced modules and reviewers used by the students.

To further support its thrust on education, CLFI also donated facilities to leading universities. Among them is the Ambassador PJ Lhuillier Lecture Room at the University of the Philippines Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business which serves as a classroom for the degree program students and the Ambassador Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room at the De La Salle University in Manila where workshops, meetings, community engagement get-togethers and symposiums are regularly held. 

The foundation also unveiled the P2 million PUP-CLFI E-learning center which features 21 desktop computers and 400 select e-book titles that can be used by Polytechnic University of the Philippines students.

In the Visayas region, the foundation helped build the two-story Northern Tacloban City National High School Sports Building which houses six classrooms, including two which are dedicated to ALS classes. 

In Bais City, Negros Oriental, the Edna Lhuillier Multi-Purpose Hall serves as a library where most of the CLFI scholars and ALS learners conduct research among the numerous book titles available. It is also used for seminars and workshops involving the city’s reformed drug addicts, as well as a hub for senior citizens.

CLFI’s ALS learners have already achieved several milestones. These include beating the national average of the Accreditation and Equivalency test for two straight years and producing a learner which has scored 100 percent on the 2014 A&E test. 

By the end of 2019, CLFI’s ALS program has produced close to 10,000 learners nationwide. While in the 2017 A&E test, Cebuana Lhuillier ALS students were able to achieve a 49-percent turnout which was higher than the 15.6-percent national average.

CLFI, in partnership with DepEd, aims to unveil 20 more centers so that more out of school youth will have access to learning.

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