Mighty Corp pursued their good deed thru corporate social responsibility projects

Filipino-owned manufacturer of cigarettes, Mighty Corp pursued social responsibility projects thru Wong Chu King Foundation.  They have commended by San Fernando City Bishop. Rodolfo Beltran. He said that Mighty helped them to spread the faith in the Philippines and for prioritizing apostolic works and education in its programs and projects.

According to Beltran, the said foundation donated to church projects and also funded the education of deserving students in Lagawe, Bontoc. The lucky beneficiaries are four seminarians and students of vocational courses.

“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.”

The bishop also praised Mighty Corp for their outreach project launched for 65,000 organized tobacco farmers of Northern Luzon. He has witnessed the signing of an agreement on the project between Mighty and 200 farmer leaders of the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives Inc. from Pangasinan, La Union, Abra, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.
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Under the memorandum agreement between the two, Mighty will donate 16 hand tractors worth P2.5 million and 90 irrigation pumps worth P1.1 million to the farmers.

“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.”

Aside from the donations, Wong Chu King Foundation did the renovation of the Basilica Minore of the Our Lady of Piat Church in Piat, Cagayan in 2012, and Diocesan Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Naic, Cavite.

Auxiliary Ricardo Baccay of Tuguegarao City described WCKF’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.”

Meanwhile, Archbishop Rolando Tirona of the Archdiocese of Caceres in Naga City, Camarines Sur describes the owner of Mighty Corp 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.”