We strongly deplore the report of Mr. Butch Belgica’s Anti-Organized Crime Commission’s labeling of the Tau Gamma Phi as among the most destructive gangs in Metro Manila.
The Brotherhood does not have international ties or connections to different organizations, fraternities worldwide and it stands by itself to be recognized by international communities for its socio civic projects guided by the tenets and codes of conduct of the fraternity.
The Tau Gamma Phi was founded in 1968 at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus and extended its membership in almost universities and colleges all over the Philippines and expanded evenly across the globe, making it the only Philippine founded brotherhood recognized abroad. It Is the only Philippine fraternity recognized by the State of Bahrain as the Philippine Consul can vouch.
The Triskelion Alumni Organization composed mainly of professionals and senior members of the Tau Gamma Phi with councils on every colleges and universities in the Philippines, and with members in the different private companies and government institutions locally (a number of them occupies national and local government positions) and some scattered in different parts of the globe have had their shares of extending aids to the needy and the poor.
The different alumni councils are involved in socio-civic projects such as medical and dental missions, blood letting with the Philippine National Red Cross, feeding of indigents in different barangays nationwide, gift giving to the poor children, scholarships and trainings and a lot more humanitarian projects.
The Triskelion Alumni Organization and the Tau Gamma Phi in general deplore the use of force and violence as a gizmo to solve misunderstandings with different rival fraternities. We believe and encourage all the members of the brotherhood from the school to the community chapters the use of dialogue and diplomacy as the only peaceful solution to a conflict.
The Triskelion alumni organization through its different chapters conducts a regular reorientation seminar of the tenets and code of conducts of the fraternity to all the members, school and community based. — Mayor JOSE BONG TEVES, National Chairman, TRISKELION Alumni Organization (TAO)