They were businessmen, professionals, government officials, and company executives. They were also fisherfolk, laborers, famers, students, teachers, and market vendors. But for one day, last September 18, along the Bataan shorelines, they were simply a team possessed with a single and very noble goal: to help clean our waters and coasts.

To the people who helped clean our waters and coasts: Congratulations for a job well done!. (1999, October 12). Manila Bulletin, p. 5.