Mighty Corp: Doing good deeds thru their Corporate Social Responsibility program

Filipino-owned tobacco manufacturer, Mighty Corp also focus on their Corporate Social Responsibility program thru Wong Chu King Foundation.  

According to San Fernando City Bishop Rodolfo Beltran, he commended on what the foundation and Mighty helped the community by spreading the faith in the Philippines. Also they prioritized apostolic works and education in its projects.

He added that they donated to church projects and funded scholarships to deserving students in Lagawe, Bontoc. The charitable arm of Mighty picked four seminarians and students of vocational courses.

“The parents of these students are low-income farmers producing only for local consumption,” the bishop said. “So you can imagine the positive impact this kind of support has for them.”, he added.

The bishop also praised Mighty Corp for their outreach project in which benefits 65,000 organized tobacco farmers of Northern Luzon. Last January, the signing of agreement on the project between Mighty and 200 farmer leaders of the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives Inc was held in the North. The members of the cooperatives are from Pangasinan, La Union, Abra, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.

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In the memorandum agreement, it stated that Mighty will donate 16 hand tractors worth P2.5 million and 90 irrigation pumps worth P1.1 million to the farmers.

“I’m quite happy about all these projects. It’s a big lift for our farmers, not only in La Union but also the whole of Northern Luzon,” Beltran said. “This is something very beautiful as the hand tractors and water pumps encourage our farmers to use modern methods of agriculture.”

Aside from these donations, the foundation also renovated churches in the country. Some of the beneficiaries are Basilica Minore of the Our Lady of Piat Church in Piat, Cagayan, and Diocesan Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Naic, Cavite.

Meanwhile, Auxiliary Ricardo Baccay of Tuguegarao City lauded Mrs. Nelia Wong Chu King's institution as a step in the right direction. He said that his diocese, like all dioceses, have serious concerns. If WCKF is out to help schools, putting up libraries is the best form of help it can give.

“For many years, I have personally known the chairman, WCKF chairman of the board of trustees,” said Archbishop Emeritus Diosdado Talamayan of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao City. “She and her family are great devotees of Our Lady of Piat, and they have erected a chapel in Malolos City, Bulacan, dedicated to Our Lady of Piat, which was blessed by many bishops led by Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales in 2012.”

Archdiocese of Caceres' Archbishop Rolando Tirona describes the owner of Mighty Corp as an upright family and said it was “highly uncharacteristic for them to be involved in the illicit trade practices of technical smuggling and tax evasion.”