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Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025. Paige Javier, ABS-CBN News

Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025.

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Sports Cars for a Cause

Paige Javier

ABS-CBN News

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1740296838802022325_sports cars 2.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025. Paige Javier, ABS-CBN News"/>Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025. Paige Javier, ABS-CBN News</div>MANILA – Over 200 sports cars were on display at 4th Avenue and 27th Street in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig for a charity-driven event. Sports car enthusiasts brought out their timeless, classic and modern cars, including electric vehicles to drive support for the annual event. &quot;Sports Cars for a Cause&quot; returned for its sixth edition on Sunday to raise more funds to help students from the Sisters of Mary School in Silang, Cavite. BGC Car Club Convenor and NEO President Charlie Rufino said they initially focused on raising money for scholarships, but they extended it to support a school building. &quot;This is originally targeted for our Sisters of Mary School automotive scholars. But we&#x27;ve expanded it, we&#x27;re gonna put a lot of the funds to a new school building. We call it Digital Transformation Building,&quot; Rufino said.  &quot;It&#x27;s gonna be done and prepared for students that wanna learn the digital skills and all the upskilling. This will be a new five-storey building for them,&quot; he explained.Rufino underscored the importance of equipping the youth with education to grow the local automotive industry. &quot;Automotive is growing here. But we&#x27;re also worried about disruption, electric cars are coming… We do believe our scholars will not only be trained in the old school but also the new school, he added.&quot; &quot;We&#x27;re so happy for the outpouring from the sports car club and also for the sponsorships from our other major groups to help us,&quot; he said. Rufino hopes to encourage more car enthusiasts and donors to help out. &quot;I guess the best bang for the back, just give it to education. These kids are really talented, they just need a break. We have graduates from our school who are now heads of companies and some of them are valedictorians in major schools,&quot; he shared. <div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1740296862162022325_sports cars.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025. Paige Javier, ABS-CBN News"/>Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event in Bonifacio Global City, February 23, 2025. Paige Javier, ABS-CBN News</div>Sr. Teresita Sumalabe of the Fr. Al Children Foundation Inc. expressed her gratitude to all those who helped the at least 300 student beneficiaries. &quot;They have contributed a lot for our charity program. And we can see that our students, our children, the moral is being boosted,&quot; she said. &quot;Every time our students would see that building would be constructed, it serves as an inspiration for them to stay and they wish that sana we will have a chance of studying there in that building so they will be more equipped with advanced technical skills and knowledge,&quot; Sumalabe added. Sr. Mylene Arambulo of the Sisters of Mary Schools said most of the scholars are driven to study and help their families. &quot;They are coming from the poorest of the poor. Usually they are in the island where the sisters are recruiting them. When they will graduate from the Sisters of Mary, most of them are the breadwinner of their family,&quot; she shared.  &quot;They are now in different companies. Now they are working in Dubai, some of them are not just in Dubai, working in Europe to help their family… They are also helping the Sisters of Mary,&quot; Arambulo added. Businesswoman and car enthusiast Angie Mead King was once again in attendance to show support for the charity-driven event.&quot;I like the event because it&#x27;s for a cause. We&#x27;re sending students to learn more about automotive and mechanical engineering, which is part of the industry I really love,&quot; she said. <div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/life/01/04/19/disney-on-ice-opens-with-annual-charity-gala">&#x27;Disney on Ice&#x27; opens with annual charity gala</a> </div>&quot;By us doing this charity event with the people, we get to raise funds, send scholars to Germany. And hopefully the technology they learn from Germany they can bring back to the Philippines and improve our industry and the economy,&quot; King added. The car enthusiast hopes to convince more people to donate for the cause. &quot;Every year it gets more successful. I&#x27;m so happy it gets so much love and support. I&#x27;m here at the donation box, trying to get more donations so that we can send more students abroad,&quot; she said. &quot;I do any part that I can to help move students to learn and get a better education,&quot; King explained. Following the outpouring of support from the sixth edition, Rufino is gearing up to bring a bigger &quot;Sports Cars for a Cause&quot; event next year. &quot;Every year we a have a theme. This year it&#x27;s about watches and cars… Next year we&#x27;ll probably have some art pieces will be donated like this year,&quot; he said. &quot;We&#x27;re looking forward that it expands from the cars to the automotive to the architecture and further on,&quot; Rufino added.<div> </div>

Over 200 sports cars were on display at 4th Avenue and 27th Street in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig for a charity-driven event.

Over 200 sports cars were on display at 4th Avenue and 27th Street in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig for a charity-driven event.

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Sports car enthusiasts join forces for charity-driven event

Paige Javier,

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Published Feb 23, 2025 03:53 PM PHT

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