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The plight of the Philippine people have been distributed to the affected helping make a positive impact on society

touched everyone’s hearts and millions of communities.
and in building a stronger nation.
people all over the world donated funds and As the impact of the storm, which has left These projects include a community

help for the disaster survivors. Thome most people in the typhoon-torn communities service programme at Taguig National
Group and TSM Group, with their strong with almost nothing, became more apparent High School which, since 2010, has seen

business links and history in the Philippines, TSM Group received further donations from 24 volunteers help repair and clean up the
were quick to put their support behind the its board of directors, management, school; and Christmas gift giving schemes

relief operations.
Principals and partners and the company has in Iloilo City and Cebu City which have
Many of our seafarers and their families now raised more than P8.5 million.
been attended by more than 160 seafarers

have been directly affected by the typhoon. and their families. In addition, a gift Our commitment to helping is made all
Everyone in the company has voluntarily giving scheme at the Jose Reyes Memorial the stronger by the knowledge that more

pulled together to make a difference to the Medical Center, now on its sixth year, has than 1,208 of our seafarers live in the
communities that urgently need help.
enabled the distribution of 420 grocery affected areas. We were particularly anxious

bags,donated byTSMGroupstaff,tothe Itisintimesofcriseslikethiswhenthe tohelplocateseafarers’missingfamilies.
patients of this government hospital.
best in every human being comes out. We have established a dedicated bank

Strongly determined and with unquestionable account for donations which has already The Chief Executive Officer of TSM
compassion, TSM Group staff gladly helped more than 40 people and are in the Group said: “We have a strong
contributed P500 of their earnings to the process of helping at least 55 more.
commitment to corporate social

company’s calamity fund to assist the needs responsibility and a culture of TSM Group has vowed to remain of
of the typhoon survivors and even went volunteering and giving. I am very proud service to those affected by typhoon Haiyan

without their Christmas party in order to that our staff and business colleagues have in the best way we can by contributing to
donate more funds to the relief efforts.
been able to give so much support to the rehabilitation projects. We are also

ongoing relief efforts in the Philippines To date, employee donations have continuing the humanitarian efforts and
and we will continue to work hard to help reached nearly P900,000 and this money community involvement programs that we

the Filipino people recover from this has been used to purchase two batches of have been running for several years and
terrible disaster.”
relief packages, totaling 2,256 bags which
which endorse our company commitment to

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