Transmission operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines started the distribution of P500 million worth of grocery items over the weekend in line with its P1-billion assistance to the national government’s COVID-19 relief and response efforts.
“We are very pleased to turn over these relief packs as we hope these will help sustain our partner communities given the extension of the Enhanced Community Quarantine. Distribution in select locations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will be made over the next weeks,” the company said in a statement.
NGCP, a privately owned company in charge of operating, maintaining and developing the country’s power grid and led by majority shareholders Henry Sy Jr. and Robert Coyiuto, Jr., wrote President Rodrigo Duterte on March 30 pledging P1 billion to help the national government in its efforts to fight the pandemic.
“NGCP’s pledge of medical equipment is also in the process of procurement. The much-needed equipment will be distributed to identified hospitals as soon as they arrive,” the company said.
The donation is over and above earlier NGCP donations of personal protective equipment, meals and other equipment for medical frontliners and the Meals on Wheels program where hot meals are distributed to indigent members of the community.