Fast-food chain offers summer program for kids

By Carina L. Cayon

Friday 23rd of March 2012

DAVAO CITY, Mar. 23 (PIA) -- A fast-food restaurant chain in the city continues to provide an option for Davaoeño kids to have fun and hone their talents this summer with the onset of the Jollibee Kids Scout Summer Program in April.

The annual summer program of the Jollibee Davao JTC Group of Companies offers workshop activities for children ages 6 to 12 years old, which aim to instill the values of fun, family and friendship.

Nelson Judaya, Jollibee Visayas-Mindanao Marketing Services head, said the summer program will feature workshops on performing arts such as dancing, singing and acting, arts and crafts, reading, and social skills.

Judaya told the media in Kapihan sa PIA at Jollibee Time Square on Thursday (March 22), the program becomes a yearly ally to parents in developing their children’s talents and skills as well as social values.

The workshops will come in four batches to start on April 9 until second week of May. Each Jollibee store in Davao City will conduct the workshops in four sessions per day with a maximum of ten participants per session that will last for two hours.

Judaya said children who want to join the summer program will have to sign up first in the Jollibee Kids Club (JKC) which requires payment of P50 as membership fee inclusive of an identification card and a kit for some freebies.

For the Jollibee Kids Scout Summer Program, participants are required to pay a participation fee of P500 per child inclusive of one shirt and a cap, meals and certificate.

Ciger Sario, Jollibee JTC Davao marketing and business development manager, said the program is eyeing instructors from the Davao City-based Ford Academy of the Arts to train the children on the performing arts and the arts and crafts.

Jollibee training experts will handle the workshops on reading and socials skills such as values, active play and outreach activities, Sario said.

He said that the summer program is among the many activities of the JKC which is part of Jollibee’s social responsibility and commitment to the children.

He added that JKC in Davao has more than 4,000 members already.

Another activity involving the JKC members this summer is the restaging of the Jollitown Time Travel Summer Art Camp on May 25 at SM City Davao and on May 26 at NCCC Mall, also in Davao City.

The summer art camp intends to expose the children to different arts activities such as poster making, drawing, arts and crafts and dancing. (PIA-11/Carina L. Cayon)