DELOS SANTOS, JAN NESLIE MAXINE S.

12-ST.THOMAS AQUINAS

INTERNATIONAL

Costco is offering an hour Tuesday through Thursday from 8 am to 9 am to member 60 years

and older.

Walgreens senior hour is Tuesdays from 8 am to 9 am.

Walmart is offering a shopping hour from 6 am to 7 am every Tuesday for customers 60 and

up.

Target's first open hour on Wednesdays is reserved for the elderly and those with underlying
health concerns.

Seattle-based Tom Bihn, one of our favorite bag manufacturers, has turned its US-based
manufacturing line to cloth face masks and is currently donating to around 100 essential
businesses and individuals.

MGA Entertainment launched Operation Pac-Man  to raise money and provide supplies to

health care workers. It is also committing $5 million from its children’s brand L.O.L Surprise to
get more personal protective equipment to donate. To combat the shortage of ventilators, the
designers and engineers from its Little Tikes brand invented a prototype that is being tested at
UCLA. It will be produced at the Little Tikes factory in Hudson, Ohio, if clinically approved.

The New York Food Truck Association  is partnering with brands like Pipcorn, Core Foods, and
Chobani to provide free meals to first responders and health care workers, with a dozen food
trucks rotating between hospitals in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Clothing brand Hanna Andersson is donating its pajama sets to health care workers and
patients in adult, children, and baby sizes. It is also donating pajamas to Baby2Baby’s Covid-
19 emergency response program.
Osprey’s Colorado-based warranty and repair team  is sewing masks for health care workers
and front-line responders in and around Cortez, Colorado.

Disney Parks is donating 100,000 N95 masks to New York, California, and Florida. The
company is also donating 150,000 rain ponchos, which can be worn over and prolongs the
use of personal protective equipment, to the humanitarian organization MedShare.

GE Appliances donated 2,500 N95 masks to the University of Louisville Hospital in Kentucky,
where the company is based. The company is also donating appliances  to health care
workers, firefighters, paramedics, and police officers fighting Covid-19.

Spry Therapeutics donated 10,000 of its virus-blocking medical pillows  to hospitals across the
US.

Fashion designer and Project Runway alum Christian Siriano, said he and his sewing staff
started making supplies  for workers in New York City.

Elijah Daniel, the comedy YouTuber and rapper, organized what he calls Cult for Good, which
is handing out care packages for the homeless population of Los Angeles, including soap,
food, water, and menstrual hygiene products. After Covid-19 test donations from Vivera
Pharmaceuticals, the Cult relief teams will soon be offering free on-site rapid coronavirus tests

LOCAL

Aboitiz Group of Companies

The Aboitiz Group donated P100 million to Project Ugnayan, a collaboration of local companies,
to purchase gift certificates worth P1,000 for poor families in Greater Manila.

On March 18, the Aboitiz Group donated 5,700 N95 masks to the Department of Health (DOH)
and to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).
As of April 13, a total of 4,500 surgical masks and 1,500 surgical gloves had also been turned
over to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), Lung Center of the Philippines, and Dr Jose N
Rodriguez Memorial Hospital.

The Aboitiz Group also gave 15,500 surgical masks, 1,500 surgical gloves, 20 tents, and 4
alcohol drums to the the government.

Pilmico Foods Corporation, its food business unit, has been distributing food to hospitals and
military checkpoints in Iligan and Tarlac. It has so far donated sacks of flour for nearly 60,000
pieces of bread, distributed to hospitals, checkpoints, and underprivileged communities.

The Aboitiz Group has also expanded its relief efforts to the Visayas and Mindanao. Its various
business units in the Visayas and Mindanao donated food and PPE sets to local government
units (LGUs) and hospitals in Cebu, Leyte, Masbate, Negros Occidental, Davao City, Cotabato
City, Iligan City, Sultan Kudarat, and Cotabato.

Adobo Connection

Adobo Connection provided food for over 3,000 health workers at several hospitals in Luzon.

The company, together with its employees and agents, also raised funds to buy PPE for 9
hospitals in Metro Manila.

JG Summit Holdings

URC is also donating its products such as Great Taste coffee, Magic Crackers, Nissin Cup
Noodles, Refresh Mineral Water, and Vitasoy drinks to health workers and personnel manning
checkpoints all over the country.

On top of this, URC Sugar and Renewables Division is donating sanitation and hygiene
products to checkpoints as well as disaster risk reduction and management offices in Negros
Occidental, Negros Oriental, Batangas, Panay, and Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.

Robinsons Land Corporation waived rental charges for all non-operational tenants of its malls
during the lockdown as well.
Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC)

JFC donated P220 million worth of food from its brands Jollibee, Chowking, Mang Inasal, Red
Ribbon, Greenwich, Burger King, Panda Express, and PHO24 to frontliners and communities.

The company also released an emergency response fund worth P1 billion in advanced one-
month salary and 13th-month pay to cover all work teams, as well as partner employers in
stores.

LBC Express

LBC committed P50 million worth of reusable 2-ply masks to be distributed to communities in
densely populated areas of the country.

Ligo Sardines

Ligo Sardines reallocated its entire advertising budget for 2020 to donate to non-governmental
organizations, charities, and independent groups that are on the frontline in the battle against
the coronavirus.

Lopez Group of Companies

The Lopez Group of Companies donated P100 million to the DOTr to assist the agency's
programs, such as the conversion of passenger ships into temporary quarantine areas and the
establishment of quarantine terminals for returning seafarers and overseas Filipino workers.

Its geothermal company Energy Development Corporation lent 11 container vans to LGUs in
Leyte, Negros Oriental, Ilocos Norte, Kidapawan City, and Cotabato province. The container
vans are used as temporary isolation rooms for patients and quarantine rooms for frontliners.

Mayora Group

The company earlier gave out CalCheese to frontliners during the first week of the quarantine. It
donated P1 million worth of assorted biscuit products, including Malkist, Valmer, Wafello, and
Superstar, to LGUs in Metro Manila.
The company is also giving a 20% discount to LGUs from April onwards on all its biscuit
products.

McDonald's Philippines

Through the McDo Kindness Kitchen program, McDonald’s Philippines pledged 50,000 meals
for health workers, police, LGU volunteers, government agencies, and local communities.

Its charity Ronald McDonald House Charities is also now accepting cash donations from
individual and corporate donors who wish to support McDo Kindness Kitchen.

Megaworld Corporation

Andrew Tan's property firm deployed its Citylink buses to provide free daily transport to
healthcare personnel, in coordination with the DOTr. These buses will bring the workers to and
from Pasig City General Hospital and Makati Medical Center from March 23 to April 12.

Megaworld is also extending food assistance to its construction workers in its two townships
affected by the lockdown, The Upper East and Northill Gateway.

Melco Resorts and Entertainment (Philippines) Corporation

Through its charitable arm Melco Resorts (Philippines) Foundation Corporation, the company
donated 125,000 food packs worth P50 million. It also donated an additional P100 million worth
of food packs for distribution to vulnerable communities.

Okada Manila

Okada Manila directly donated P25 million each to the Philippine Heart Center and the Lung
Center of the Philippines, to be used for procuring necessary machines, equipment, and
medical supplies. The company also pledged to donate relief goods worth P100 million for
distribution to poor families.

Pepsi Cola Products Philippines Incorporated (PCPPI)

PCPPI distributed beverages to officers manning checkpoints across the country.

The company donated more than 100 cases of drinks, including Premier Water, Gatorade, and
Pepsi, across Luzon. In the Visayas and Mindanao, PCPPI is also sending out 1,000 cases of
drinks to checkpoints in Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod, and Zamboanga.

Philippines AirAsia

The airline chartered at least 6 cargo flights to Manila to support emergency response initiatives.
Transported goods include over 600 boxes of PPE from Shenzhen, China, and 5,000 kilograms
of tropical fish from Bali, Indonesia.

Procter & Gamble (P&G) Philippines

P&G's manufacturing plant in Cabuyao City, Laguna, is producing face masks to be distributed
for free to its employees and medical workers in the Philippines.

The company also donated P100 million worth of products to hospitals and frontliners.

Resorts World Manila

Through the Resorts World Philippines Cultural Heritage Foundation, the company turned over
16,000 PPE sets and 40,000 N95 face masks to public hospitals PGH, NationaI Kidney and
Transplant Institute, Pasay City General Hospital, and Ospital ng Parañaque.

The company also donated a total of 40,000 face masks and 400 infrared thermometers to
Pasay City and Parañaque City LGUs, and the National Capital Region Police Office. It also
distributed 15,000 grocery packs to underprivileged barangays in Pasay City.

Shopee Philippines
E-commerce platform Shopee, through its initiative Shopee Bayanihan, donated 100,000
surgical masks and 3,000 coronavirus test kits approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
The masks were distributed to over 40 hospitals across Luzon.

Sun Life Financial-Philippines Foundation

Sun Life Financial Philippines, through its philanthropic arm Sun Life Foundation, is donating
digital life insurance to health workers directly involved in fighting COVID-19 and are registered
members of Lazada Philippines. The company is giving away a total of 3,000 Life Armor
products with up to P75 million in coverage.

The company has also donated 3,000 PPE sets to medical workers as well as equipment to a
number of hospitals including PGH and RITM. Sun Life Philippines is also part of the Project
Ugnayan consortium that collectively aims to help 1.5 million families.

Alliance Global Incorporated (AGI)

Andrew Tan's AGI, through the DOH, is donating one million liters of 70% disinfectant ethyl
alcohol to hospitals and other medical institutions, the Philippine National Police (PNP), the
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and LGUs.

Araneta City

Araneta City is waiving the rent of all tenants which are not operating due to the lockdown. The
company also advanced its employees’ salary for the end of March and promised to pay them
until the lockdown ends on April 14.

Moreover, Araneta City has donated food packs to communities in Quezon City and is planning
to launch the #TogetherWeHeal Donation Drive in coordination with the J. Amado Araneta
Foundation. The foundation has pledged to donate test kits to the Quezon City General
Hospital.

accommodate the floating hospital vessels being deployed by the Department of Transportation
(DOTr).
Bank of China Manila Branch

The Bank of China donated 500,000 disposable medical masks to the DOH, for distribution to
hospitals and vulnerable communities all over Luzon.

Bounty Agro Ventures Incorporated (BAVI)

BAVI, the company behind brands Chooks-to-Go, Bounty Fresh, Uling Roasters, Adobo
Connection, and the Meat Market by Holly Farms, prepared packed meals for health workers
and checkpoint officers across Luzon.

From March 24 to March 29, the company is also distributing a total of 100,000 kilograms of
fully-dressed chicken to Bulacan, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Bataan, Rizal, Taguig, Pasig, and
Caloocan.

On top of this, BAVI is providing meals to stranded dormers of UP at its Diliman, Los Baños,
and Mindanao campuses.

Clark Development Corporation

Clark Development Corporation, in cooperation with Widus Foundation, donated P1.5 million
worth of PPE to 16 government hospitals in Pampanga and Tarlac. It also distributed relief
goods worth P500,000 to around 1,000 families.

Eagle Cement Corporation

Eagle Cement Corporation donated thousands of food packs containing rice and canned goods,
vitamins, and other medicines to 20 barangays in San Ildefonso and Doña Remedios Trinidad in
Bulacan.

The company also provided free water supply for residents experiencing water shortages in the
area. On top of this, Eagle Cement is planning to provide essential hygiene products such as
soaps and sanitizers to the same communities.

eBET
eBET, a mobile gaming systems provider, donated 9,800 PPE sets to the Makati Medical
Center on April 3.

Hotel Sogo

The motel chain donated P60 million worth of accommodations equivalent to over 800 rooms as
free temporary lodging for frontliners. Ten of its branches provided rooms to medical workers of
25 hospitals in key cities in the country, including Manila, Caloocan,

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