CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Community Development and Scholarship Programs

Community Development Program

To date APEC and its partners have invested PhP62.3M on Community Development projects identified by the beneficiary communities as shown below.

  Community Development Project Beneficiary % Completion
1 Multipurpose Pavement Colayo 100%
2 Aggregate and sand for Day Care Center Colayo 100%
3 Day Care Center Colayo 100%
4 Multi-Purpose Building Balatoc 100%
5 Computers and Generator Set Balatoc 100%
6 Desktop Computers Guina-ang (Upper Pasil) 100%
7 Livelihood (Blacksmithing/Electric Meter) Upper Uma 100%
8 Footpath at Sitio Bangtetan Upper Uma 100%
9 Mag Mag-an Washing Shed Upper Uma 100%
10 Barangay Hall Upper Uma 100%
11 Livelihood (Blacksmithing/Electric Meter) Lower Uma 100%
12 Barangay Hall Lower Uma 100%
13 Colong Community Irrigation System Lower Uma 100%
14 Payao Footpath/Walkway Lower Uma 100%
15 Livelihood (Blacksmithing/Electric Meter) Western Uma 100%
16 Latawan Water Source Western Uma 100%
17 Portable Rice Mills, Laptops and Cement Western Uma 100%
18 Hand Tractors Bangad (Tinglayan) 100%
19 Two-Room School Building Dangtalan (Lower Pasil) 100%

All of these Community Development Projects have been full and successfully completed and turned over to the respective community beneficiaries.

Kalinga Geothermal Scholarships

The Kalinga Geothermal Scholarship Program continues to provide quality tertiary education to 130 scholars every school year from the eight ancestral domains within the GRESC contract area. The program provides for full and partial scholarships, and subsidizes the tuition fees and stipends of grantees in the amount of PhP3.7 million annually.

For School Year 2023-2024, Full Scholars and Educational Assistance Program (EAP) grantees of Balatoc, Colayo, Dangtalan and Uma will continue being the resource area and road access. In other ancestral domains such as Tongrayan, Bangad, Guina-ang and Dalupa-Ableg, and Ableg, incumbent scholars will be allowed to continue until such time that they complete thier respective courses within prescribed timeframe.

From its inception in school year 2010-2011 up to 2023-2024, the Kalinga project partners have invested P51.0M in the program. To date, 431 scholarship grantees have been provided with opportunities for higher education. Of this number, 348 have graduated in the fields of earth sciences and engineering, accounting, law and medicine. Of this number, 12 are licensed engineers, 17 are licensed teachers, nine are policemen, six are licensed geologists, two are lawyers, two are social workers, five are nurses, two are pharmacists, three are decons and a psychometrician, priest, forensic and masteral.

Consistent with the scholarship program objective, it is noteworthy that five graduates in engineering and geology have been hired direclty for the Kalinga Geothermal project.