The Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) will come up with the Kiwanis Club of Manila stamps, which will be issued on January 21, 2011. It is classified as a “Special” kind of issue with a denomination of P 7.00 and quantity of 50,000 pieces.
The technical description of the Kiwanis Club of Manila stamps are as follows:
Kiwanis Club is one of the world’s largest service clubs. The club has carried the slogan “Serving the Children of the World” and its theme “One Can Make a Difference.” On July 4, 1964, members of the Kiwanian Memory Caine of KC Santa Barbara, California, USA organized the Kiwanis Club of Manila. In 1993, then President Fidel V. Ramos issued Presidential Proclamation 124 declaring the third week of January as Philippine Kiwanis Week.
The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a set of four stamps and a souvenir sheet to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Development Bank of the Philippines.
Development Bank of the Philippines' history can be traced back to the Commonwealth years when the early infrastructure for development financing was laid down by the government.
In 1935, the National Loan and Investment Board (NUB) was created to coordinate and manage government trust funds such as the Postal Savings Fund and the Teachers' Retirement Fund.