Knowing how to read is one of the essential factors to achieve literacy. As poverty being closely linked to lack of education, Ronald McDonald House of Charities released its flagship program Bright Minds Read.
BMR is an initiative launched six years ago to be especially promoted in the Philippines in order to support the reading and English curriculum of local public schools. This is in response to the global need for better education and English-speaking skills.
“The aim of this program is to really help children know how to read, because it is the foundation of all learning. We have been waiting for the opportunity to aggressively pursue campaigns that can get regular people to realize that there is a problem in the education landscape and therefore bring them to work with us in changing this,” Kenneth Yang, president of RMHC, stated.
Since the launching of the program, thousands of children have been benefited from it. The RMHC aims to reach its goal in the coming years, which is to cover all the public schools in the country.
Long-time McDonald’s endorser, Sharon Cuneta, joins the initiative of RMHC and takes part in the advocacies of the program BMR.
“Having been a McDonald’s endorser for quite some time now, that’s why when it was brought up to me, I didn’t think twice. It was an instant ‘yes’ because, just like this year, God has been generous to me than usual,” Sharon expressed and continued: “I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity to be part of something I personally advocate, my family is a reading family and we give high value on education. Ako nga bumalik pa sa school, kahit ilang units lang.”
At the press conference of the RMHC that coincided with celebration of World Children’s Day, Sharon expressed that she and the organizers of BMR campaign are humbling themselves in asking the customers of McDonald’s to donate their coins in canisters that can be found in all participating McDonald’s stores.
“A few centavos from people will really go a long way. We are in partnership with the Department of Education. Konting barya lang po, that’s the message we want to put forth, and we want everyone who knows this campaign to spread the word,” Sharon continued.
After her short talk, the Megastar waited for some questions from the press and got disappointed for nobody dared to ask her about the program so she blurted: “Since walang gustong mag-ask, Okay naman po ako may asawa pa! Sabihin ko na para tapos na. Parang nanganak ng nanganak lang naman ang issue… Nag-offer na nga ng ilang milyon ‘yung tao, pahingi naman ng ebidensiya na may girlfriend ang asawa ko, lalu na kung may mga anak daw.”
Over the past month, Sharon’s relationship with husband Senator Francis Pangilinan has been embattled with intrigues that even affected their children. The actress got burnt-out with issues created by irresponsible people who made up stories after hearing them from somewhere else.
“Twelve years na [her marriage], kasing haba ng relationship ko with McDonald’s, puro tsismis wala pa ring nakakarating sa akin, pahingi naman ng picture at tsaka address… Masaya po kami, never kaming naghiwalay,” the actress cleared, adding that politics has something to do with it most especially that election nears.
New movie
After the blockbuster Caregiver, she is set to do a movie scheduled to shoot anytime soon. The movie will star the Megastar opposite Richard Gomez, and it is going to be their sixth movie team-up.
“The ball is in my court because I have to lose weight,” Sharon related, saying that her project with ex-boyfriend depends on her diet.
Sharon dished out some interesting bits about the new project telling the press that it’s going to be romantic-drama. She is so excited with the project, saying: “It’s a beautiful story. The story has been ready for some time and the script is almost done. It's just a matter of me being physically ready, they are ready to shoot any time.”
She added that the movie is a love story that spans like 15 years. “There are flashbacks. Alam ko may location shoot pero di ko pa alam kung saan. Before they brought up Mexico and then Hawaii, pero most of it, dito,” the actress ended.
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