PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES | Former Vice President Leni Robredo takes photos with her supporters at the launch of a nongovernment organization, the Angat Pampanga Association Inc., in the City of San Fernando on Sept. 2, 2023. (Photo by TONETTE OREJAS / Inquirer Central Luzon)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines — Former Vice President Leni Robredo led the launch of Angat Pampanga Association Inc. here on Saturday, urging its members to know and help address the needs of communities.
“I hope your programs are not only antipoverty but are able to involve many people,” Robredo told some 1,000 Angat Pampanga leaders who used to be volunteers in her 2022 presidential campaign.
As a nongovernmental organization (NGO), Angat Pampanga has begun implementing education, health, skills training and livelihood, and community engagement programs, according to its president Rich Canlas.
Robredo, during her speech, said that her “measure of success” is the increasing number of Filipinos willing to take on leadership roles in the private sector.
“Angat Buhay,” the NGO set up by Robredo and her supporters following her failed presidential bid, had not formed chapters. Instead, it evolved into independent organizations in various parts of the country, she noted.
Before the launch, Robredo revealed in an interview on Saturday that she was leaving again in October for a series of speaking engagements in the United States.
She will be speaking before the University of the Philippines General Alumni Association and Filipino communities in Los Angeles and New York to share updates on Angat Buhay.
Robredo is also set to speak before students in Berkeley, Georgetown, and Yale universities.
After the election, Robredo joined the 2022 Fall term of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.