TAGAY!

by Philip Jude Acidre, An Waray Regional Coordinator


In a bid to promote the local coconut industry as well as to showcase the cultural heritage of Eastern Visayas, AN WARAY is scheduled to hold the 2nd Oktubafest on October 17 to 18, 2009. The highlight of this year’s celebration is the attempt to break and set a new record for the World’s Largest Tuba Wine-tasting Event, which will be attended by 7,107 participants and wine-drinkers to be held on October 18, 2009 at the MacArthur Leyte Landing Monument, Government Center, Palo, Leyte.

These past weeks, however, a series of typhoons and flooding has affected a significant portion of Northern and Central Luzon as well as Metro Manila and has adversely caused the evacuation of thousands of our fellow Filipinos. While AN WARAY has not remised in its responsibility to assist in the relief and rehabilitation efforts, we still feel that much more needs to be done in order to alleviate the sad plight of those affected by these natural calamities.

With this in mind, AN WARAY has decided to make the upcoming celebration of the Oktubafest, especially the wine-tasting event, into “Tagay for a Cause” a community campaign to collect relief goods from those kind hearts who are still willing to share some more to those in need in these trying times.

In this regard, we would like to appeal to your generosity to join us in this relief effort by donating relief goods for this cause and by personally delivering them to the designated collection booths at the Oktubafest venue.

It is our hope that through this event, we will not only showcase our wine products and cultural heritage, but with our selfless giving, we can together present to the whole nation and to the whole world the caring hearts and helping hands that prove the best in the people of Eastern Visayas.

For more information, please contact (O53) 323 4279 or simply leave a message/comment here. Thanks!