Chevron Philippines Inc. manifests its dedication to enabling human progress through its annual Volunteer Week, this year celebrating women and livelihood empowerment, education and career appreciation, and coastal sustainability.
Now on its 12th year, Chevron encourages its employees and business partners to volunteer their time and energy to work for the improvement of the communities where they operate, focusing on projects that positively impact the women, youth, marginalized sector and environment.
More than 300 Chevron employees, contractors, suppliers, Caltex retailers and other Chevron business units volunteered to help the less fortunate ones.
Mothers Leading the Move Forward
Chevron Philippines Inc. commenced Volunteer Week 2019 with “Project MOVE,” an initiative aimed at empowering mothers by equipping them with the skills needed to start a sustainable business as a form of livelihood.
Employee volunteers from Caltex Makati Credit Cooperative (CMCC), together with 12 mothers from Barangay San Isidro, Makati participated in a basic meat processing workshop by Negoskwela, a leading livelihood and technology training center in the Philippines that produces globally competitive Filipino professionals and volunteers.
The donated equipment will also serve to continue helping the migrant youth of Don Bosco Pugad run their bakery, located within the Don Bosco Makati compound.
Building Bridges for the Future
A total of eight Chevron volunteers and 43 teachers joined hands and shared their stories of hardships and eventual successes to the 429 junior high school students of San Pascual National High School (SPNHS) in a career talk and employment opportunities orientation in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for the second day of Volunteer Week 2019.
One for the Turtles
The spirit of community reigns as Chevron concluded its12th Volunteer Week with the much-awaited annual coastal cleanup. Volunteers from CPI, MSSC, the Batangas Terminal, as well as local farmers, retailers and suppliers, joined together to collect trash and segregate them into color coded garbage bags to clean the long coastline of the Chevron Batangas Terminal, a nesting site for the Olive-Ridley sea turtles.
