The Chinese Filipino community in Metro Manila, through the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) led by its president Domingo Yap, recently turned over a donation of a new drug rehabilitation center for Ormoc City in Leyte province through Mayor Richard Gomez who said there are thousands of illegal drug surrenders in the city.
FFCCCII has committed to donate 15 rehab centers in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to help in reforming illegal drug users and to support President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s war on illegal drugs.
Gomez is a top actor and athlete, whose advocacies include promoting public health and sports.
He said, “Thank you very much to the Chinese Filipino community for always supporting my anti-illegal drugs advocacy, ever since I started the Mamamayan Ayaw sa Droga (MAD) in 1998 during the time of President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada up to now with this new rehab center for Ormoc City. I also thank FFCCCII and the whole Chinese Filipino community for the help to Ormoc City and our region during the typhoon Yolanda disaster.”
Upholding the local Chinese Filipino community’s centuries-old Confucian tradition of philanthropy in the Philippines, the FFCCCII has, for 63 years, mobilized donations from SMEs and big businesses to support charities in education, medical care, Chinese Filipino fire volunteer brigades, and disaster relief operations like typhoons or the Marawi crisis. FFCCCII believes that economic growth can be more sustainable if there is social progress and poverty alleviation.