‘Hanjin Village’ underway in Zambales

CASTILLEJOS, Zambales, Philippines – This town has stamped its seal of approval on a P1.5-billion housing project, dubbed as the “Hanjin Village,” with the signing of a memorandum of agreement between HHIC-Philippines Inc. represented by its president Jin Kyu Ahn and Mayor Jose Angelo Dominguez at the company’s 300-hectare state-of-the-art Subic shipyard recently. 

Under the MOA, Castillejos town expresses full support to Hanjin’s corporate social responsibility program of building decent and affordable homes for its shipyard employees in cooperation with the state-run Pag-IBIG Fund, Dominguez said.

Jin said a 30-hectare land purchased by the Korean shipbuilder will be given to its employees for free in the form of donation.  

The housing project will initially benefit 2,000 employees and its first phase is comprised of 1,000 housing units covering about 12 hectares. 

The first 300 units will be turned over to the worker-recipients. The Hanjin Village site, which is 19 kilometers or 20 minutes away from the Hanjin shipyard, will have an elementary school to be donated by Hanjin, bus terminals to accommodate company-provided shuttle units to ferry employees to and from the shipyard free of charge, and a multipurpose hall, among other amenities.