SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That I, CATHELYN R. BENITEZ, of legal age, Filipino, single/married and a resident of

Minaog, Dipolog City, do hereby name, constitute and appoint MISHIEL M. DECIERDO, of legal age,
Filipino, and a resident of Estaka, Dipolog City, to be my true and lawful attorney-in-fact, for me and in
my name, place and stead, to do and perform any or all of the following acts and things to wit:

1. To demand, claim and receive my Passport at DFA Clarin, Misamis Occidental;

2. TO DO ACT, SIGN and EXECUTE other things as may be required and necessary to carry into
effect the foregoing authority.

HEREBY GIVING AND GRANTING unto my said attorney in-fact full power and authority
whatsoever requisite or necessary or proper to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and
purposes as I might or could lawfully do if personally present and hereby, ratifying and confirming all
that my said attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done under and by virtue of these presents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand this ______ day of _________ at Dipolog
City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.

CATHELYN R. BENITEZ MISHIEL M. DECIERDO

Principal Atty-in-Fact
ID No._____________

Witness: ____________________ _____________________

Republic of the Philippines )

Province of Zamboanga del Norte )S.S
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

BEFORE ME, this ____________ at Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines,
personally appeared this above-named person with her Identification Card, known to me to be the
same person who executed the foregoing and that she acknowledged to me that the same is her
free act and deed.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL.

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