CLARK FREEPORT—Fifteen schools in Porac, Pampanga, recently benefited from Clark Development Corp.’s (CDC) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program aimed at improving the facilities for schoolchildren in its neighbor communities.
Through its External Affairs Division (EAD), the state-run firm donated various construction materials to selected schools in Porac.
The materials include paints, hollow blocks, cement, lumber, roofing and steel bars, among others. The donated materials were identified based on the needs of each school as evaluated by CDC-EAD personnel.
CDC President and CEO Noel F. Manankil, together with EAD Assistant Vice President Rommel Narciso, led the activity and turned over the materials to selected schools.
Among the beneficiaries were Salu Elementary School, Balubad Elementary School, Jalung Elementary School, Pulung Santol Elementary School, Palat Elementary School, Pias Elementary School, Pio Elementary School, Mancatian Elementary School and Pulung Santol High School.
Likewise, elementary schools in Barangay Planas, Mitla, Sepung Bulaun, Katutubo Village, Sapang Uwak and Camias Resettlement in Porac also received the same assistance from CDC.
The schools were the first batch of recipients under the project.
During the activity, Manankil said CDC would continuously support its adjacent communities through its various CSR programs.
“We have the primary moral obligation to support our local government units and we have a lot of programs in CDC that we want them to be involved,” he said.
Manankil added that the state-owned firm, together with its locator companies, would aim to create more strategic and relevant programs for communities especially in education.
“We have a high priority for education because we believe that it is what actually equalize everybody in terms of their social status. In Clark, we want everybody to get involved, come up together and plan to have more relevant and more strategic CSR,” he said.
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