Thursday, July 12, 2007 Aboitiz foundation chief visits Davao, turns over financial aid
ABOITIZ Group Foundation, Inc. (Agfi) executive vice president and managing trustee Augusto Carpio III recently made a three-day visit to Davao City to monitor Davao Light and Power Company's corporate social responsibility projects implementation.
Carpio flew in from Cebu City on June 27 to see the public secondary and elementary campuses that have been recipients of either school buildings or computer equipment donations from Agfi, the social development arm of the Aboitiz Group of Companies.
The Agfi executive also joined the electric utility's executive vice president Manuel Orig in the turnover of checks for P1.160 million to the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).
The amount represents Davao Light's and Cotabato Light's cash contribution for 2007 to the corporate social development organization. These two Aboitiz power companies are founding members of the PBSP in the 1970's.
On the first day of his visit, he went to Tagakpan National High School, a rural high school some 28 kilometers from the city proper, to find out how the school made use of the 4-unit computer donation turned over almost a year ago. He was also shown by the students their basic computer operating skills.
He met on the following day with officials from Hedcor, Inc., another Aboitiz company, to review the plan for its CSR program.
On the last day, he joined Davao Light's community relations manager Vic Sumalinog in handing over P3,000 cash incentives to student grantees of company's education assistance program to elementary valedictorians now enrolled at the Davao City National High School.
Nineteen of these beneficiaries are currently enrolled with the said educational institution.
