Ms. Tessie Tomas was
flocked in by market goers trying to get a confirmation of a spreading
rumor here that she will be bidding for the gubernatorial post against
incumbent Governor Milagrosa T. Tan, this coming 2007 local elections.
The actress
immediately dismissed the speculations, but admitted to the media in
the July 1st edition of CCATMAN Weekly Kapehan, that she
has been continuously offered the post since the 1998 elections but
she would always refuse.
“It is one of the
things that my husband doesn’t want me to indulge in, and the word of
my so-called interest in politics might have been coined by some
groups who saw that I have been very active with my NGO works lately”,
Ms. Tessie Tomas stressed.
It was gathered that
the actress is currently the President of Manila-based Katbaloganon
Foundation, who have been infusing various projects for Catbalogan
residents for the past 10 years, and concurrently the Public Relations
Officer of CFSI, a UN accredited international NGO.
“I can help our fellow
Catbaloganons and the Samareños in general in my own samaritan way and
thru the Katbaloganon Foundation and CFSI, and I am very much
contented with I am doing right now. I believe that I can leave to the
Samareños the decision to get a leader whom they think could really
help Samar achieve a total economic turn-around, it’s a matter of will
from the people – kasi kahit na sino pa ang magaling na kandidato
natin kung pai-iralin pa rin natin ang pera pagdating ng eleksiyon,
it’s a useless thing”, Ms. Tomas explained.
Ms. Tessie Tomas
informed that it was ex-Congressman Eduardo Nachura, now the Solicitor
General, who always prodded on her to run for the gubernatorial post
which she would always turn down.
At present, the
Kabaloganon Foundation is currently backing up 12 scholars from
indigent families studying at the Samar State University (SSU) here,
and is likewise sourcing for a location where they can put up a day
care center designed to cater the children of poor families in
Catbalogan.
“This is on top of
some medical missions we have conducted here during the previous
years, and hopefully we could put up an office here, para maging
sustaining ang operations ng foundation, at para narin ma-expand namin
ang mga serbisyo na puwede naming maibigay sa mga kababayan nation,
especially on women and family concerns”, she further told.
Ms. Tomas likewise urge the Catbaloganons to be
responsible enough and to value the help that it is getting, not only
from the Katbaloganon Foundation but also that of the other NGOs,
emphasizing that most NGOs are willing to help people who are likewise
interested in helping themselves.
The actress was in town shooting a QTV program
“Balikbayan” showcasing her low key lifestyle every time she visits
her hometown, Catbalogan.
