Hundreds of students from Tondo, Manila who served as player escorts during the FIBA World Cup were honored during a ceremony that also marked the fourth year of San Miguel Corporation’s Better World Community Center.
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The event was also attended by FIBA local organizing committee officials Eric Altamirano and Wanda Little Champions Project Lead Josh Paulite, Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots coach Chito Victolero and Hotshots forward Rome De la Rosa. Victolero, whose two young sons were among the children who walked with players from the various World Cup teams during entrance parades, expressed his gratitude for the rare opportunity accorded the grade school boys and girls, some of whom were from the Better World community and the said school.
A teacher from Gen. Vicente Lim Elementary School, Prescila Ascuna, said potential FIBA World Cup kids were screened before a list was drawn. The San Miguel Corporation-Better World Tondo community center was opened by SMC president and CEO Ramon Ang in September 2019 in an effort to reduce both food waste and hunger.
SMC, through San Miguel Beer as event partner, supported the 2023 FIBA World Cup, which the country co-hosted with Japan and Indonesia.
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