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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 344, January 14, 1968 ]

AUTHORIZING THE ELKS CEREBRAL PALSY PROJECT, INC. TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND FUND CAMPAIGN DURING THE PERIOD FROM MAY 1 TO JUNE 30, 1968.

WHEREAS, some 1,400 children are born yearly in the Philippines afflicted with cerebral palsy, a condition which impairs and causes complete loss of muscular control, rendering those afflicted unable to take care of themselves; and

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need for an intensive campaign to educate the people on various aspects of cerebral palsy with a view to minimizing, if not totally eliminating, its deleterious effects, and to raise funds for the operation and expansion of present facilities of the Elks Cerebral Palsy clinics and the purchase of adequate medicine and specialized equipment for the treatment and rehabilitation of those afflicted with it;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do hereby authorized Elks Cerebral Palsy Project Inc., to conduct a national educational and fund campaign during the period from May 1 to June 30, 1968. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of race and creed, to support humanitarian campaign by giving generously of their means to alleviate the miserable plight of those unfortunate individuals afflicted with cerebral palsy.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 14TH day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty- eight.

SGD.)FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary

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