(The Philippine Star) | Updated July 29, 2013
- 12:00am
MANILA,
Philippines - Officials and employees of DMCI Homes have painted several houses
at Bistekville I, a social housing project of Quezon City and Habitat for
Humanity Philippines (HFHP), as part of the company’s Kaakbay sa Pamayanan
community outreach program.
Sixty DMCI
Homes volunteers braved the morning heat to paint houses at the Payatas
community, a beneficiary of the property developer’s P4 million cash donation
in March 2012 that helped the Quezon City government, Department of Education
and HFHP construct 20.5 of 145 sponsored Bistekville I homes for poor families
and teachers from the Payatas dumpsite. The volunteer work is also part of DMCI
Homes’ agreement with HFHP to support the latter’s I Build campaign, which aims
to establish a citywide and nationwide shelter program for informal settlers,
government workers and other disadvantaged groups or poor families.
DMCI Homes is
intensifying its volunteerism under its corporate social responsibility program
dubbed Kaakbay launched last year. The program addresses four fronts--social
welfare and community development, health, environment and education-in line
with the company’s vision of becoming a partner in community-building and
nation-building.
The
Bistekville I donation and volunteer works fall under the Kaakbay sa Pamayanan
program, which include housing assistance for the poor. The Kaakbay sa
Pamayanan also sponsored the construction of 92 homes at the relocation site
for informal settlers of Paranaque River. The relocation site in La Huerta is
being developed by the city government of Parañaque, District 3830 Rotary Homes
Foundation and CFC ANCOP Tekton Foundation.
DMCI Homes,
as one of the corporate partners, donated P12 million for the project in a
4.2-hectare land along C5 Extension Road near the NAIA 1 runway. The site will
eventually house 1,500 informal settler families.
DMCI Homes
also campaigns for the protection and preservation of the environment under its
Kaakbay sa Kalikasan program. The first project under this program is the
adoption and cleanup of a creek in Quezon City last year. DMCI Homes partnered
with Rotary Club of Diliman-Silangan the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) to rehabilitate the Pasong Tamo River. Volunteer employees
from DMCI Homes, local government officials, residents and other stakeholder
organizations cleaned up the 1.63-kilometer stretch of the river and installed
trash traps to keep the river free of garbage and debris.
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