Aside
from its P1 billion assistance to the national government’s COVID-19 response
and relief efforts, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has
earmarked P5 million worth of gift certificates which were turned over to
Project Ugnayan, the collaborative initiative between the Philippine Disaster
Resilience Foundation (PDRF) and top business groups, companies, and
institutions.
"NGCP
made a pledge to continue finding opportunities beyond our previous aids to help
combat the effects of COVID-19 in our country, and we are staying true to that
promise. This contribution to Project Ugnayan will hopefully sustain more
families severely affected during this period,” NGCP officials said in a press
statement.
Project
Ugnayan aims to support families affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the
imposition of the extended Enhanced Community Quarantine by providing
supermarket gift certificates to over 1,500,000 economically displaced families
in Metro Manila.
The
project has also tapped Caritas Manila’s Project Damayan, which will conduct
the door to door distribution of the gift certificates, to comply with the
social distancing guidelines imposed by the Department of Health (DOH).
The
project, which began last March until April 30. NGCP’s earlier donations
include the PhP 1 billion donation of medical equipment (ventilators, video
laryngoscopes, full face shields) and grocery packs to identified hospitals and
cities and municipalities across the country; personal protective equipment
(PPE), meals, and other equipment for medical frontliners, and the Meals on
Wheels program for indigent communities.
NGCP is a
Filipino-led, privately owned company in charge of operating, maintaining, and
developing the country’s power grid, led by majority shareholders Henry Sy, Jr.
and Robert Coyiuto, Jr.
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