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Mark Jimenez Shows His Support to Military Chaplains

On December 10, 2006, Mark Jimenez and his group started early for the church at Camp Aguinaldo to attend the morning service for the military chaplains. He was a guest at the 55^th anniversary mass of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines.

He has been a strong supporter of men-and-women-in-uniform, and the important work of the chaplains never escape his notice. They share the trials and hardships of their congregation. Behind the scene, only a few civilians are aware that the chaplains perform a crucial service in maintaining the high morale of the country’s armed forces.

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Mark Jimenez Bats for Tax Collection Efficiency, Higher Wages and Salaries

If you were just a a daily wage earner or a monthly salaried man, would you like to have your pay   doubled or tripled?

This is the question Mark Jimenez is asking.  And the answer is a clear yes.  The implication for the country in general and the family in particular is enormous.  Corruption in government will be a thing of the past,  Millions of Filipinos will stay in the country and enjoy the time with their family.  And Filipinos will not become the slaves and prostitute and laborers of the world. 

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Mark Jimenez Laments RP’s Economic Situation

When asked by journalist from the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. or PAPI if he has any political ambition, Mark Jimenez, the controversial businessman, former congressman, philanthropist, and ex-convict, said no. 

“I am only concerned about our country,” he said.  “The government says the economy is vigorously growing; But more Filipinos are going hungry.  They say the economy will probably grow by about 7 percent this year,”

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Donation to the Integrated Bar of The Philippines

Mark Jimenez donated P1 million to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ Greater Manila region during the IBP-GMR Conference at the Manila Hotel on November 18, 2006.

Donation to the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Mark Jimenez donated P5 million to Army Chief Lieutenant General Romeo Tolentino to underwrite 200 low-cost housing units for enlisted personnel of the Philippine Army during flag-raising ceremonies in Fort Bonifacio on October 23, 2006.

Mark Jimenez Donates P50M

MARK JIMENEZ donated P50 million to Pacific Plan Inc. and to College Assurance Plan policyholders so that the children beneficiaries of the failed educational plans could enroll during the opening of classes in June 2006.He later on gave another P50 million to help some 40,000 victims of the pre-need companies enroll during the second semester. PPI and CAP remains indifferent to the plight of their plan holders despite repeated pleas from distraught parents of the students.Jimenez had also refunded the P340,000 bail bond paid by leaders of Parents Enabling Parents (PEP) coalition who were fighting a libel case filed by the PPI management at the Makati Regional Trial Court.

The money was placed in a trust fund although the initial donation was used to pay for the tuition of the poorest among PPI and CAP plan holders. Mark Jimenez said he was appalled at the fate of the pre-need subscribers and wondered how the owners of PPI and CAP could sleep at night knowing what they had done to thousands of young people hoping for a better life through education.

The Fall and “Redemption” of Mark Jimenez

Back from a two-year prison term in the United States, the controversial ex-congressman and Erap’s “corporate genius” recounts his humbling days as Prisoner No. 69335-004, and how his families fell apart. 

By Cynthia Balana

(The Sunday Inquirer Magazine published on March 12, 2006.)     

The man who would be a power broker during President Joseph Estrada’s term is now a repentant shadow of his former self.  Declares Mark Jimenez:  “Yes, I got lost but now I’m back.  I was slandered, brutalized and crucified by a lot of people not knowing that I would be coming back,” he says.  “But I bear no anger, no vengeance.  I only have  forgiveness for myself and the forgiveness of God in my heart.”

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MJ Feeds the Hungry

In Manila, Mark Jimenez is regarded by many poor people as a saint, a savior, or the nation’s next president. He gave concrete example of what a Christian should be.

Millions of people in depressed areas are never really surprised by what Mark Jimenez is doing. Since 1998 when he first visited the Philippines after so many years in the US, he has been sharing whatever he has to the people.

He saw then the misery and squalor in squatters areas and depressed sections of barangays in Manila, so when he became congressman of the the sixth district, he intensified his feeding kitchens. He uses trucks to bring food to the hungry, for “when people were hungry all you can do is feed them.” There was no time to give them livelihood opportunities that would take years to materialize.

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Mark Jimenez, HNL Work Behind the Scenes of the Leyte Landslide

In all probability, nobody in Guinsaugon knew who Mark Jimenez was. But that was before February 17, 2006. Now, a lot of survivors and people in the area could recognize the name from the many organizations and personalities that visited St. Bernard.

They knew Mark Jimenez as the person whose organization, the Hulog ng Langit Foundation, had visited the place and without publicity or photo opportunity worked behind the scene to help them. Even the most religious person would be at a lost for words to explain why bad things happen to good people. Maybe it was the will of God for whatever reason. Maybe it was an accident. Or maybe it was because of man’s indifference to nature. Whatever the reason, nobody from the town would ever forget that fateful day.

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