As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility,
the Makati Business Club supports and operates special
projects in areas which we feel requires special attention
by the business community. Over the years, these projects
have centered on education, the judiciary, environment,
and disaster preparedness and relief. Our current programs
include:
Invest
in Education Program
The Makati Business Club's Invest in Education
Program (IEP) was launched in December 1990 in response
to what MBC found was the "sorry state" of the
education sector. That time, for every 100 pupils who
entered Grade 1, only 60 finished Grade 6, and eventually
only 40 made it to High School graduation. Economic difficulties
forced these children out of school. More
Children's Hour
The Children's
Hour symbolizes our growing
concern for the many abused and disadvantaged children
in the world. It is a global fundraising campaign led
by the International Youth Foundation, which calls upon
all working individuals and companies worldwide to donate
their earnings from the last working hour of the millennium
to meaningful and sustainable programs for our children.
Corporate
Network for Disaster Response
The Corporate Network for Disaster Response is a network
of business groups and associations whose objective is
to rationalize and institutionalize disaster relief efforts
from the business and NGO community during times of disaster
and crisis. CNDR specializes in disaster prevention, mitigation,
and preparedness as well as relief operations. When natural
disaster strikes, the network is mobilized to conduct
damage assessments, source relief goods and financial
resources from donors, and distribute the goods through
a network of NGOs already existent in the communities
targetted for assistance.
connectEd.ph
connectEd.ph is a private sector program, in support of
the PCs for Public Schools project,
which provides public high schools across the Philippines
with computer laboratories, software, training and education,
local area networks, and internet or e-mail connections.
Each computer laboratory is equipped with 10 to 20 Pentium
computers. More
MBC-Visa
credit card
This unique "card with a heart"
program is in partnership with Bankard and Visa International.
As a distinct feature of the card, Bankard will donate
1% of all your charges here and abroad made via the MBC-Bankard
Visa goes to a charitable pool of funds managed by MBC.
Habitat
for Humanity
The Makati Business Club is committed to a project with
great potential for significant social impact in the Philippines.
MBC recently sponsored and helped build its second house
for Habitat
for Humanity during its YouthBuild
2002 session. This is the second year that MBC has
sponsored a house. On April 15, the entire MBC staff took
the day off from work to help build a house at the Muntinlupa
jobsite of Habitat for Humanity. More
National
Movement for Free Elections
National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL)
is a voluntary organization dedicated to promoting democracy
through free and fair elections and good governance. It
carries out its mission by serving as a pollwatcher group
during elections in the Philippines. Founded in 1983,
NAMFREL has monitored every major election since then
as an advocacy group for honesty in elections, as a pollwatching
group, and as the accredited organization for carrying
out Operation Quick Count. NAMFREL is staffed by a volunteer
workforce numbering over 250,000 during elections.
connectEd.ph
