Tag: SGV

SGV having trouble with tangled, torn wristbands

The accounting firm SGV & Co. is having difficulties in getting the exact number of participants at the ongoing INC Worldwide Walk. In an interview with EBC Reporter Weng dela Fuente, SGV spokesman Leo Maligtas said that their biggest challenges so far were the unprecedented number of people and those whose wristbands keep from sticking together or tearing apart. Maligtas said they have deployed around 50-70 SGV personnel to supervise and monitor the counting, which […]

SGV: Partial count of 96,000 for WorldWide Walk Manila; Police estimate 1.5M

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News Service) — A spokesperson for SGV, the official accounting and auditing firm hired to help observe the Iglesia Ni Cristo Worldwide Walk for Yolanda survivors in its Metro Manila site, said they have already validated 96,000 of those who participated in the INC charity walk. Leo Matignas, an SGV partner, said that this count was as of 2:20 p.m.   This number already exceeded the 77,500 participants in Singapore’s “The New Paper Big […]