February 4th, 2011 by admin | No Comments »

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I am pleased to present Opening Doors, our theme for Francisco Study Center in 2011. Our accomplishments in 2009-2010 are examples of the doors Francisco Study Center open every day – creating opportunities for the poor and the homeless to livelihood projects and access to health care and education. For the thousands of individuals we serve since 2009, the Francisco Study Center is opening doors to benefit the homeless individuals for 2011.

The Study Center has been evolving as a community service provider since it opened in April of 2009 in Pasay City.It now included a program to become involve in newspaper publishing to benefit homeless or poor individuals. The Study Center can help fight poverty and create employment for homeless people. Vendors can buy copies of the newspaper at a price of 50% off the cover price, keeping the proceeds.

I value your trust in Francisco Study Center and invite you to serve as a volunteer and deliver happiness to people others may looked down on, because we’re not so different after all.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Rafael Butch Francisco
Founder & Chief Happiness Officer
Francisco Study Center

List of major accomplishments by the Study Center in 2009-2010:

• Opened the Sovereign Grace Bible Church – Pasay & Makati at the Study Center for regular Sunday Christian worship services.

• Joint Vaccination Mission with the Rotary Club of Pasay North at the Pasay City Sports Complex for more than 3,000 children from 4 to 6 years old, May 23-24, 2009.

• Donated portable nebulizers to every barangay halls/health centers in Pasay City to help indigent patients with respiratory diseases.

• Donated one ambulance under the care of Barangay 179 in support of its focus on public health.

• Organized and sponsored one NEGOSEM of Go Negosyo, a seminar for micro negosyantes by the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship at the Study Center.

• Led relief efforts for victims of floods caused by typhoon “Ondoy”, September 27 2009.

• Donated one (1)blood bank refrigerator for the Pasay City Red Cross Chapter.

• Donated 10,000 National Achievement Test (NAT) Reviewers for Grades 3 and 6 pupils in the public elementary schools through PESPA Pasay Chapter.

December 20th, 2010 by admin | 2 Comments »

Here is a copy of a column from STAR BYTES – Butch Francisco (The Philippine Star) dated November 07, 2009

One message I received a couple of months ago through an emissary said that Butch Francisco wanted to meet up with me. Oh, there’s another one? As I would later find out, he is the better Butch Francisco — studious, hardworking, bright and has a good heart (qualities I so sorely lack). In fact, he is a post-graduate in Human Resource Development from the Ateneo de Manila University — with a Baccalaureate from De La Salle University.

The better Butch Francisco is the president and COO of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor). He is actually Rafael Butch Francisco, but had been Butch Francisco for the longest time, except that he has chosen to go low profile and does his work quietly (well, quiet waters run deep).

When I met with him, of course, the first thing we did was trace our roots. He is also from Bulacan, but from another town. But Butch was born, grew up and spent all his life in his beloved Pasay (way before it became a city). A devoted family man, he is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Aseniero. They have one son, the teenage Rafa.

Going up to his office for an interview with Startalk (shown last Saturday), our staff noticed that it is a working office — with folders all over his desk. Startalk interviewed him because he and Pagcor chairman and CEO Efraim Genuino have started laying the groundwork for the Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City Manila.

You do remember the old Nayong Pilipino, don’t you? This one they are building is going to be much, much bigger (theme parks galore) and will finally turn our country into a top tourists’ destination. I will tell you all about this new entertainment complex in my Tuesday column.

November 7th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »