LAMOIYAN CORPORATION Lamoiyan Corporation supports numerous initiatives for the environment, for the development of Filipino talent, and for the promotion of equal-opportunity employment. The company is most proud of its achievement in implementing an equalopportunity work environment. Lamoiyan trains and employs the hearing-impaired, who comprise up to 65% of its workforce at any given time. All employees are accorded the same benefits, evaluated on the same criteria, and subject to the same standards of the company. To help ease difficulties in communication, hearing employees directly involved with the nonhearing are required to learn sign language. Lamoiyan also supports the Deaf Evangelistic Alliance Foundation, Inc., which provides education to the hearing-impaired.
LEPANTO CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY Lepanto Mining’s CSR program is embodied in the company’s five-year Social Development and Management Program (SDMP). The company has always been a major partner of its host and neighboring communities, with a total of 35 projects and programs from the SDMP plan successfully implemented in the municipalities of Mankayan, Benguet and Cervantes and Quirino, Ilocos Sur. As many as 65 families have benefited from different livelihood projects in the three municipalities. The Botica sa Barangay established in Guinaoang has provided affordable medicines to 560 households. About 225 patients were treated at the Lepanto hospital at subsidized rates. To date, the company has a total of 113 college scholars and has provided assistance to daycare centers, elementary schools and high schools in nearby communities. Infrastructure support benefited 220 households in the municipality of Mankayan. In the aftermath of Typhoon Pepeng, Lepanto spearheaded clearing operations for the reopening of the Mankayan-Abatan road, and lent its heavy equipment to accelerate the reopening of the Mankayan-Cervantes road. Lepanto sent a rescue team to Barangay Guinaoang in Mankayan and to Kayan, Mountain Province to assist in the rescue and recovery of victims.
L’ORÉAL PHILIPPINES, INC. On its centenary celebration, L’Oréal Philippines shares its métier with those who can use it through the Bigay Daan Program. Bigay Daan means “to give way” to the beneficiaries of the project, whom L’Oréal helps with its commitment of addressing the right to be beautiful day after day. It also means “to give” during its 100th year (isang daan). This livelihood project trains 30 Filipino women each year on hairdressing, make-up artistry, personality development, financial management, and other skills. Their employment after training is ensured through L’Oréal’s partnership with top salon chains in the country.
MAYFLOWER INN The Mayflower Inn launched in 2008 its Cultivating Self-Reliance social program. The company believes that by working together with nature and her abundance, self-reliance is possible. With permaculture as a tool, Mayflower Inn established the Kamagayan Green Zone (KGZ), an urban permaculture development site to showcase workable solutions to self-reliance in food, water, shelter, and energy. The KGZ features an organic garden, a rain-fed tilapia pond, graywater recycling, beekeeping, rocket stove, composting bin, materials recovery facility, composting toilet, and a training hut with natural lighting and ventilation. Mayflower has opened the KGZ to education tours so as to share the model with the rest of the community, particularly the young generation, as a solution to pressing environmental and societal challenges.
18
PBSP Annual Report 2009