Senatorial candidate, Camille Villar on Thursday hailed the invaluable contribution of the country’s top masterplanners and architects during their monthly gathering in San Juan.
Villar noted how esteemed architects and construction suppliers greatly help the Philippine economy in her speech at the monthly membership meeting of the United Architects of the Philippines and the United Suppliers of the Philippines.
“We really see the need to strengthen this industry, in particular, to empower the professionals in this industry because your positive contribution ventures way beyond the beautiful and lasting buildings that you create, the ones that you helped built,” she said.
“It also goes to making the lives of our kababayans better because the work that you do really provides more jobs for Filipinos and has an invaluable contribution to the economy, more than often people give you credit for,” Villar added.
Villar’s campaign platform includes job creation, promoting entrepreneurship, and the improvement of health services and education.
She cited the organizations’ important contribution to infrastructure and urban development, and sustainability initiatives, adding these activities also drive the economy and provide jobs.
“We really see the value of your profession. We really see the value of your industry. We’ve made it a point to advocate the concerns and the rights of, not only the architects and the engineers, but all of those in the construction industry,” Villar said.
“As all of you know, one of the things that really propels our country and one of the things that we would like to address…is really providing jobs for many Filipinos. And one of the few industries that truly provides livelihood and jobs is the construction, real estate industry and all of its auxillary industries,” she added.
Villar spoke of how the construction business is very close to her heart as her father, businessman, Manny Villar, started from being a distributor of gravel and sand about 50 years ago.