Mighty Corp continues to help people by CSR projects

Bulacan-based tobacco manufacturer, Mighty Corp, and Wong Chu King Foundation has been actively helping out a lot of people via the company's corporate social responsibility projects. 

According to Bishop Rodolfo Beltran of San Fernando City, La Union said that he praised on what Mighty and the foundation for helping the church to spread the faith in the Philippines and for prioritizing apostolic works and education in its programs and projects.

He added that the foundation donated to church projects funding the education of poor but deserving students in Lagawe, Bontoc. 

“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 lauded the outreach project that the foundation and Mighty launched for 65,000 organized tobacco farmers of Northern Luzon last February.

Under the agreement, Mighty Corp donated to the farmers 16 hand tractors worth P2.5 million and 90 irrigation pumps worth P1.1 million.

“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.”

The foundation was also commended for the renovation of the Basilica Minore of the Our Lady of Piat Church in Piat, Cagayan in 2012, and the renovation of the Diocesan Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Naic, Cavite last year.

Meanwhile, Auxiliary Ricardo Baccay of Tuguegarao City said about the foundation's work as “a step in the right direction. My 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 Mrs. Nelia Wong Chu King, 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.”

Archbishop Rolando Tirona of the Archdiocese of Caceres in Naga City, Camarines Sur, described the Wong Chu Kings 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.”