Negrense supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, May 15, that they are ready to support the “Angat Bahay NGO (non government organization)” she is set to launch on July 1.
Robredo announced the plan to create the largest volunteer network in the country at the Leni-Kiko thanksgiving event at Ateneo de Manila University on Friday, May 13.
Robredo has left for New York for the graduation of her daughter Jillian.
“While I am away, I will still be on top of the preparations for the launch of Angat Buhay NGO”, Robredo said in a Facebook post.
Her Negrense supporters said they are just waiting for the guidelines on how they can join and support the NGO.
“We are waiting for the launching of Angat Buhay NGO. Members of Laban Leni Negros Occidental are very much interested to join,” Pinky Mirano Ocampo, LLNO spokesperson, said.
“It’s a work in progress and details will be discussed when VP Leni comes back. Until then, we don’t know what our involvement will be yet,” former governor Rafael Coscolluela, who led the Leni-Kiko campaign in Negros Occidental, said.
He said they are joining the NGO, “it is just a question of defining how we fit in”.
Millie Kilayko, president of the Negrense Volunteers for Change, said “We have been partners with her even when she was still a congresswoman all the way until she developed Angat Buhay programs as vice president, so being a part of whatever endeavor for good that Citizen Leni will establish will come naturally.”*