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Thursday, May 20, 2004
Union Cement Corp spends P1.6M for host communities
THE Union Cement Corp.-Davao Plant, a Filipino-owned and controlled cement company in Southeastern Mindanao, ended the year satisfactorily after spending a total amount of P1,643,230.00 for its Social Development Management Program (SDMP) in various communities in Davao City and in the province of Davao Oriental in 2003.
Under the Philippine Mining Law of 1995 (RA 7942), mining and cement companies are mandated to allocate at least one percent of its total milling and mining cost to the SDMP of the host communities where the company is located.
This is one of the features of the Mining Act, which requires the mining company to perform its corporate social responsibility to the host communities during its entire mining life.
Gerry Ocon, community assistance officer of Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau in Region 11, said the Union Cement's assistance packages for the plan's first year of implementation came in the form of training, community integration, environmental scanning, community profiling and livelihood projects.
Ocon also said that it is intended that the assistance given to the host communities will have a long term effect on the beneficiaries because most of these programs are centered on the capability building such as skills training for the out-of-school youths, livelihood and medical programs.
The package is part of the five-year SDMP of the company, which was approved in August 2002.
Ocon added that the program's livelihood component consisting of goat dispersal and orchard (mango) growing in Mati, Davao Oriental accounted for 45 percent of the total expenditure for the year 2003.
The community projects included medical and dental missions, blood letting drive, sight saving project, procurement of medical equipment, training on practical electronics and electrical in the communities of Panacan and Tibungco, Davao City.
Other forms of assistance include cash donations and support to the church and home for the blind.
(May 20, 2004 issue)
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