VALENCIA, NEGROS ORIENTAL — Energy Development Corp., the largest producer of geothermal energy in the Philippines, offered assistance to local government units and organizations in Negros Oriental in the fight against the deadly coronavirus disease.
EDC has allowed the provincial government to use its 20-footer air-conditioned container van as a swab collection area by the Department of Health, said Noreen Bautista, corporate social responsibility head for Negros.
The town of Valencia, which hosts the geothermal facilities of EDC, got a boost in its fight against CoViD-19 when EDC extended assistance and donations.
The town’s rural health unit received 12 folding beds for its isolation facilities in barangay Palinpinon.
A joint checkpoint manned by barangay officials of Puhagan and EDC security personnel is also being established here to enforce enhance community quarantine guidelines within the area. EDC also allowed the use of their power sprayer to disinfect vehicles passing through the barangay checkpoint.
With many families having no daily earnings due to the ECQ implementation, EDC also extended food packs to residents in Caidiocan and Malaunay.
The People’s Development Council here, a coalition of non-government and sectoral organizations of Dumaguete, also received cash donations from EDC through Bautista, who initiated a personal fund-raising campaign from her colleagues at EDC.
“This contribution from EDC will greatly help ease the hardship of the lives of the economically-displaced informal sector in the City due to the pandemic, “ said Nancy Estolloso, PCD convenor. (Des Tilos Jr.)
