Geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has donated P1 million worth of relief goods to victims of the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that rocked the towns of Tayasan, Jimalalud and Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental last February 6.
“Employees from our southern and northern Negros sites lost no time in helping the earthquake victims,” said Engr. Dwight Maxino, EDC vice president for its Southern and Northern Negros geothermal production fields. “A day after tragedy struck these areas, they already volunteered to pack and distribute bags which contained rice, canned goods, bottled water, blankets and flashlights so we could begin distributing as early as February 08.”
EDC has distributed another batch of relief goods on succeeding days after packing of the relief goods was completed. The distribution was in coordination with ABS-CBN’s Sagip Kapamilya with its TV station in Bacolod City as the main headquarters of EDC’s relief operations.
According to Maxino, the company would have done it in their southern Negros office in Valencia but roads leading to the three towns were impassable due to typhoon Sendong so they opted to get help from their northern Negros office in Bago City. Community partnerships have been a cornerstone program of the EDC under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.
With health, education, livelihood and environment as its CSR modules, EDC aims to uplift the lives of the residents in its host communities in areas where it operates, this is said.
Notwithstanding, the company still reached out to the earthquake victims in the severely affected areas of the province through its relief operations. (FCR/JCT/PIA NegOr)
