The Arejola Foundation for Social Responsibility, Inc.
FOR THE SPECIAL support and attention to, and the resources it has given and reserved for, the development and promotion of Bikol literature and culture.
During the past !ve years, the Foundation has initiated and pursued two major literary projects: the Juliana Aréjola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat-Bikol, Bicol’s only annual creative writing workshop, and the Premio Tomás Aréjola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon, the last now widely regarded as the region’s premiere literary prize.
It has, moreover, collaborated with civic organizations in literary campaigns by distributing books and reading materials to public elementary schools in remote barangays of Camarines Sur.
From its own heart and coffers, therefore, the Foundation has done no small part in the current resurgence in Bikol writing, and in the end enriching Filipino literature.