Aboitiz assistance for COVID efforts tops P214 million

MANILA, Philippines — The Aboitiz Group’s total contribution to the national coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 response effort has reached over P214 million as of April 14, underscoring the group’s sustained campaign to help address the urgent needs of frontliners and affected communities nationwide.

Since the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in various locations nationwide, various Aboitiz business units have deployed their own COVID-19 response activities, while centralized donations were made through the group’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm, the Aboitiz Foundation.

Combined in-kind and cash donations have reached P46 million, in addition to an earlier P100-million donation made through the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation’s Project Ugnayan.

Project Ugnayan aims to provide assistance by distributing grocery vouchers. To date, about 7.6 million people in poor communities in the Greater Manila Area had benefited from the project.

Extending its campaign, the Aboitiz Group has also poured in significant aid efforts in Visayas and Mindanao through the initiative of Aboitiz business units (BUs) based there.

The Aboitiz Foundation has also raised P1.82 million as of April 14, through its crowdfunding platform KINDer by Aboitiz (https://kinder.aboitiz.com/). The proceeds of the Help Our Health Workers Fight COVID-19 campaign will be used to acquire PPE kits for several hospitals nationwide. This is being done in partnership with the University of the Philippines Medical Foundation and The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Foundation.