HERO golfest honors fallen heroes

MANILA, Philippines — The HERO Golf Cup, an annual charity golf tournament organized by the Help Educate and Rear Orphans  (HERO) Foundation, Inc., will be staged Friday at the Camp Aguinaldo Golf Club.

Now on its fifth year, the tournament will raise funds to support the educational needs of orphaned children and dependent siblings of soldiers, who were permanently incapacitated or killed in service or during disaster relief operations.

Tickets to this year’s golf tournament cost P2,500, inclusive of green fees, lunch and raffle.  Tee-off time is from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Founded in 1988, HERO Foundation Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization committed to help orphans of Filipino soldiers finish school and become their family’s future breadwinners. Currently, the foundation supports 499 scholars nationwide and has helped a total of 2,689 scholars since it started. The majority of military orphans are in Mindanao (50 percent) while the rest are in Luzon (30 percent) Visayas (12 percent) and NCR (eight percent).

Golf tickets are available online via the HERO Foundation store in Lazada.  For more details, visit HERO Foundation Inc. on Facebook or call 8709-4196 or 0917-8224376.

The event is made possible through the support of many generous corporations, organizations and individuals, who share the cause to care for the orphans military heroes have left behind. 

Among them are gold sponsors  BPI Foundation, Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. and Pacific Paint (Boysen) Philippines, Inc.; silver sponsors Manila Water, Equator Energy Corp. and ABS-CBN; and bronze sponsors Malayan Insurance Company Inc., Allied Bankers Insurance Corp., AC Infrastructure, United Coconut Planters Bank, JV Angeles Construction Corp., Sen. Grace Poe and Rustans Commercial Corp.

The benefactors are Philippine Life Financial Assurance Corp., Jollibee, Forza Group of Companies, Concrete Aggregates Corp. and Pacific Cross. 

The donors include Animo Magazine, La Blanca Cruises, Golf PH, Robinsons Appliances, AFPMBAI, Manila Bulletin, Armaments Unlimited, Inc., Armscor Global Defense Inc., Ms. Myra Smith and Office of the Chief of Staff, AFP. Media partners are GMA, The Philippine STAR, Philippine Daily Inquirer, BusinessWorld, Q Asia and WhenInManila.com.