RAFI’s Heritage Program to Reconnect Students to Old Cebu

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) urged students to participate in its heritage tour program to reconnect with the old Cebu, and in the process, with their history.

Jocelyn, Gerra, RAFI’s Culture and Heritage unit executive director, said in coordination with the University of San Carlos (USC)-Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History, and the Cebu City Government, they have organized the Kabataan, Kultura ug Kabilin (KKK) program which aims to connect university students to history. She said from there they also invite students to visit museums to know and feel the actual experience of heritage, culture and issues of social development, and for them to appreciate these and in the process learn to protect them.

“We were telling them that Cebu used to have a train, they were quiet amazed. In fact they said that if the same station had been developed probably we don’t have problems of congestion,” Gerra said, in reference to the pre-war trains.

Apart from the usual heritage sites, the KKK program also includes in the tour the Museo Sugbo, Sugbu Chinese Heritage Museum, Fort San Pedro, Plaza Sugbo, Magallanes Street, Basilica del Santo Niño, and the Cathedral Museum of Cebu.