Help is on the way... Aboitiz Group extends their hand
The Aboitiz Group, through its corporate
social development arm Aboitiz Foundation, has pooled its manpower
and monetary resources to help get Visayas back on its feet.
The 100 year old company traces
its roots in the Visayas and continues to have several businesses in the region
such as AboitizLand, Inc., construction firm Metaphil, CitySavings Bank,
Pilmico Foods Corp., shipbuilder Tsuneishi Heavy Industries, Inc., and Visayan
Electric Company (VECO).
“The Aboitiz Group is fully
committed in seeing the Visayas rise from this calamity. This is after
all home to us and majority of our team members hail from the Visayas. It is
where our roots and our heart lies,” said Aboitiz Foundation Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer Sonny Carpio.
The conglomerate has dispatched teams to
attend to the needs of thousands of evacuees and has established a command post
in Tubigon , with Mater Dei College. Relief goods will be distributed to four
major focus areas around Loon, Maribojoc, Tubigon, and Carmen, where the
epicenter of the earthquake was located.
The Foundation has earmarked an initial
Php2 million, which includes a Php1 million donation from actress Sharon
Cuneta, for the mobilization of the relief operations in Bohol.
