True to its mission of extending social advocacies, cultural development, and economic prosperity and abundance to member-consumer-owners or MCOs, the One EC Network Foundation, Inc. (OECNF) has pledged to donate a total of P12.1 million to all electric cooperatives (EC) or about P100,000 per EC.
In its regular meeting held last April 22, 2020, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution “[A]pproving the donation of P100,000.00 to each of the 121 electric cooperatives as the Foundation’s contribution to ECs’ budget for the implementation of the Pantawid Liwanag Program or CSR (corporate social responsibility) programs to be implemented by the ECs.”
This significant donation is in line with its mandate to provide aid.
While OECNF has expressed its full support to the Pantawid Liwanag Program of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Inc. (PHILRECA) and its 121 member-ECs, it added that there is no condition to exclusively donate the P100,000 to the implementation of CSR programs. OECNF is PHILRECA’s corporate social responsibility arm.
Although the foundation has been supporting ECs and MCOs in the past, it said that this significant donation is in line with its mandate to provide aid and support those who are affected by calamities and crises, among other things.
OECNF is in full support of the sector’s Pantawid Liwanag Program which aims to assist more than 3 million beneficiaries who are mostly lifeline consumers.
Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), OECNF is already one of the key players in mobilizing Task Force Kapatid Tisoy and Ursula. The task force helped in the restoration of electricity distribution network in typhoon-hit regions. It also made monetary and in kind contributions to areas affected by other recent calamities such as the series of earthquakes in Mindanao and the eruption of Taal Volcano in Batangas.
Other than these disaster relief operation services and rehabilitation of ECs, OECNF is also heavily involved in medical and dental missions, the training or capacity building od MCOs, medical assistance to members who are in need of urgent financial assistance, and other activities geared towards helping MCOs.