The Center for Community Transformation, a faith-based organization and some business enterprises have joined forces to step up their distribution of relief packs worth P15 million, directed at 20,000 households in marginalized communities where CCT and these groups operate.
Two weeks ago, the CCT launched its “CCT Paglingap Program,” precisely to address the need to bring food on the table, following the imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) by the government. CCT, from then on, has been receiving donations in cash and in kind worth millions of pesos.
The Victory Christian Fellowship delivered a truckload of 3,000 relief packs consisting of food and medicines to CCT which, in turn, were distributed by CCT workers and volunteers to VCF’s target ministries nationwide.
Meanwhile, the Glory Evangelical Church initially donated a million pesos, so CCT can sustain its food distribution program covering Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
CCT has also distributed over 7,000 survival food packs consisting of five kilos of rice, canned goods and noodles. Hundreds of kilos of rice were sourced from CCT’s rice plantation at an integrated farming center in Lupang Pangako, a 32-hectare integrated social development center located in Kalikid, Nueva Ecija.
CCT has so far distributed over 10,000 survival packs, medicines, and health kits to several communities where CCT operates its various social amelioration programs and where CCT’s partner organizations run their ministries.
“This is a heartwarming response of our business and non-profit partners to be in solidarity with our people, especially our underprivileged brethren in these times of extreme need,” said Ruth S. Callanta, CCT president and CEO.
“In the next six weeks, we shall have distributed 20,000 relief packs worth P15 million,” revealed Callanta, adding, “these are all donations from our partners and donors here and abroad.”
CCT has made itself available to integrate otherwise unorganized efforts to bring much needed relief and assistance to marginalized members and beneficiaries of these organizations. CCT’s distribution network countrywide is made up of ministry centers, agricultural sites, and credit cooperative offices nationwide.
Among the donors are a leading condominium builder, the Philippines’ number one billboard company, the country’s largest generic pharmaceutical chain, a garment manufacturing complex, multinational bank, a logistics firm, a host of companies in various manufacturing and trading operations.
CCT has been active in social welfare ministries since 29 years ago, inspired by the vision of Callanta, who was formerly executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress, and published author on the state of poverty in the Philippines.
CCT is governed by a Board of Trustees made up of top executives of a leading builder of condominiums nationwide, the country’s number one billboard firm, the largest generics pharmaceutical chain, a multinational bank, global exporter of fragrances, a large garment manufacturer/exporter, a leading optical chain of shops, senior faculty members of the Asian Institute of Management University of the Philippines, and a renowned Christian author and broadcaster.
CCT runs integrated programs to develop and support micro enterprises through its hundreds of credit cooperatives nationwide with a P2 billion in loan portfolio, rescue and rehabilitate street children in training centers located in Puypoy and Magdalena towns in Laguna, and in Malungon, Sarangani province, in Mindanao.\
CCT provides leadership training for pastors, workers and volunteers in such training centers as the 7.5- hectare Tagaytay Retreat and Training Center in Cavite and the Manapla Training Center in Negros Occidental.
“Praise God for donors, ministry partners, co-workers, pastors, community servant leaders, and volunteers who have relentlessly worked together providing urgent assistance,” Callanta said. “Food must urgently be on the tables of households already complaining of hunger,” she said.