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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The Jollibee Group Foundation (JGF) has launched the Scholarship Coin Bank, a campaign benefiting the foundation’s scholars taking up Quick Service Restaurant Operations (QSRO) and Agriculture courses.
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The coin banks can be found in all Jollibee, Greenwich, Chowking, Mang Inasal, Red Ribbon, Burger King, Panda Express, and Yoshinoya restaurants across the country.
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“Through our coin banks, the public can now actively support more youth who dream of completing their education, accessing employment opportunities, and providing a better life for themselves and their family,” said JGF Executive Director Gisela Tiongson.
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The JGF has been implementing the Access, Curriculum, and Employability (ACE) Scholarship Program in partnership with technical-vocational training institutions to provide indigent youth with the opportunity to stay in school and eventually help their families break out of extreme poverty.
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The QSRO scholarship track helps develop professionalized personnel training in the food service industry, while agriculture-related scholarships align with JGF’s advocacy of engaging more youth in agriculture. Its agro-entrepreneurship scholarship, on the other hand, trains young farmers in business and leadership so that they can become the next generation of farmer-entrepreneurs.
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Stories of hope
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Jorgielou Rabaria, 21, is one of the JGF’s scholars currently enrolled in the QSRO course at Anihan Technical School in Laguna.
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“As a student who came from a less privileged family, being a JGF scholar is a great help to reduce my parents’ financial burden. It also motivates me to strive more in my studies,” Rabaria said in vernacular.
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In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabaria had to stop schooling due to health and financial reasons.
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“I did not want to let our financial burden hinder me from pursuing my dreams. I used to tell myself that if an opportunity comes that would allow me to continue with my studies, I wouldn’t waste it,” she said.
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Now in good health, Rabaria is about to complete the QSRO course—a one-year technical-vocational course that involves intensive training to prepare students for a job in the food industry. She is doing her internship in a hotel in Muntinlupa City.
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Meanwhile, agro-entrepreneurship scholar Christina Gamilde is a young farmer whose family owns a small piggery.
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“By taking the agro-entrepreneurship course, I learned how to upgrade our business so I can take the lead in managing it,” she said.
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“Learning agro-entrepreneurship has been a big help. I can now see the earnings from our piggery, and this encourages me to further grow our business. I hope we don’t lose faith in agriculture,” she added.
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How to donate
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In the past, the JGF has been engaging the company’s customers in supporting school feeding and disaster response initiatives through the coin banks placed in Jollibee Group’s restaurants across the country.
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When the pandemic began, these coin banks were also made available online via www.jollibeefoundation.org so customers can donate via GCash, Maya, GrabRewards, and bank transfers from anywhere around the world.
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The public may send donations through online bank transfer to the Foundation’s Metrobank (Account number: 473-7-473-01406-4, SWIFT Code: MBTCPHMM) and RCBC (1253-10519-0) accounts.
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Interested donors may also send money through GCash and Maya apps using the QR Code provided.
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Another way to donate is by using GrabRewards points. In the Grap app, go to the Donate with Points section, look for Jollibee Group Foundation, select the amount of points to donate, and click Redeem (DSWD-SB-SP-00035-2022).
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“We are very grateful to everyone who has donated through our coin banks over the years. Now, donations to these coin banks will also help build the next generation of dreamers who wish to follow a career in the food industry or agriculture,” Tiongson said.
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