Phoenix Philippines Foundation Inc. lives up to its core value of stewardship through projects in service of the community. As stewards, we nurture our resources responsibly. By giving back, we contribute to elevating the quality of life of the people we help, because we believe that life comes first.
The foundation’s primary purpose is to engage, support and or participate in social activities and functions geared towards the development, protection, alleviation, education and empowerment of less privileged members of the society.
Our core programs are Education, Environment, Health and Safety, and Outreach and Disaster Relief.
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EDUCATION
We at Phoenix Petroleum Philippines are doing our small part to help improve education. The Phoenix for Education program is based in Davao City, where we hold our main office. It has three major components. All three projects are ongoing and are flagship projects of Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. through our foundation Phoenix Philippines Foundation, Inc.
Adopt a School
Since 2008, Phoenix Foundation participates in the government’s “Adopt A School Program.”
From one school, we now have four adopted schools: Vicente Hizon Elementary School, Asuncion Hizon Elementary School, and San Roque Central Elementary School in Davao City; and Talisayan Elementary School in Zamboanga City.
Phoenix shoulders the salary of the pre-school teachers including budget for instructional materials, so that young students can study for free.
From 2008 to March 2011, a total of 324 Phoenix Scholars already graduated.
Phoenix Alternative Learning System Program
The ALS Livelihood Education is a free education program implemented by the Department of Education under the Bureau of Alternative Learning System. While the ALS is initiated by the government, they need institutional support to sustain it.
Phoenix Petroleum, since August 2009, provides the finances and resources of the ALS program of the Doña Asuncion Hizon Elementary School. We shoulder the salary of four ALS teachers.
The program of the ALS in Doña Asuncion Hizon Elementary School consists of the Livelihood Education and the Accreditation & Equivalency (A&E).
Courses offered in Livelihood Education this term are Welding, Electronics, Electricity, Plumbing, and Cosmetology. Other courses are Cellphone Repair, Computer Repair, Hair Science, and Manicure/Pedicure. The Accreditation & Equivalency classes are held on Sundays to accommodate working students or those who cannot afford formal high school.
Because it is free to students, ALS helps the less fortunate and provides opportunities to out-of-school youths (OSY) and adults, industry-based workers, housewives, maids, factory workers, drivers, members of cultural minorities, and indigenous people.
In August 2010, we inaugurated the Phoenix ALS Livelihood Training Center and donated welding materials and equipment.
In February 2011, some 10 Cosmetology students conducted a Libreng Gupit or Free Haircut at the school to anyone who would come.
Book Donations
Since adopting the V. Hizon Elementary School in 2008, we not only shoulder the salaries of teachers but also donate a monthly budget for instructional materials. The school uses this to buy new and colorful reference books and story books.
In 2010, the school’s small library was extended to house a pre-school section. It was inaugurated in July 2010 and named “Phoenix Library” by the school in gratitude of our support. Aside from more books, we donated chairs.
On October 2010, we donated to the San Roque Central Elementary School story books, reference books, dictionaries, and English, math, and science books for use of pre-school and grades one to four students. We also gave a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
On March 12, 2011, we held the 1st Phoenix Run to coincide with the annual city founding festival. The run, dubbed “Takbo Para Sa KinaBOOKasan” (Run for the Future) benefited our adopted schools. We turned over P30,000 worth of books to Vicente Hizon, Asuncion Hizon, and San Roque Central Elementary Schools.
The Kadayawan Phoenix Run held on August 21, 2011 provided books to schools that were hit hard by the recent flash flood in Davao. The six school beneficiaries were Davao City Special School (SPED-Bangkal), Matina Central Elem. School, Mabini Elem. School, Don Manuel Gutierrez Sr. Elem. School, Doña Soledad Dolor Elem. School, and Matina Pangi Elem. School.
Phoenix also donated books to Talisayan Elementary School in Zamboanga, Vicente N. Chaves Memorial Central School and Dumaguit Elem. School in Misamis Oriental.
We are proud that the Phoenix for Education CSR program received an Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award for Social Empowerment last June 2011, from leading Asian entrepreneurship organization Enterprise Asia. It is the first time the awards included Philippine companies.
ENVIRONMENT
Pawikan Conservation
The Phoenix Petroterminals and Industrial Park in Calaca, Batangas is home to the Pawikan Conservation Project ongoing for many years in partnership with the local government and DENR-Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau. Pawikan eggs are incubated at the make-shift hatchery just outside the terminal walls. These hatchlings are eventually released to sea.
Since 2005 to 2011, we have incubated 2,093 eggs, and released 692 hatchlings and 106 adults to sea.
Coastal Clean-ups
Phoenix staff regularly participate in the annual International Coastal Clean-up events organized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, local government, and other environmental groups. In Davao, Team Phoenix cleans the shoreline and beachfront of Brgy. Pampanga, Coaco Beach in Lanang. Phoenix staff at the Manila office and the Phoenix Petroterminals and Industrial Park in Calaca, Batangas regularly join coastal cleanups in Batangas.
Adopt a Riverbank – Save Davao River Project
In August 2009, Phoenix Philippines Foundation adopted three kilometers of the El Rio Vista Riverbank as part of our efforts to save the Davao River. Every year we have planted thousands of malibago seedlings and released thousands of tilapia fingerlings. Phoenix holds this project in partnership with Brgy. 19-B, Protect Davao River Movement, Solidarity of Multisectoral Group in Davao City (Solid Davao), Gagmayng Kristohanong Katilingban (GKK), and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-XI.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Phoenix Petroleum holds blood-letting projects in Davao, Manila, and recently in Zamboanga, in coordination with the Philippine National Red Cross. Phoenix employees and partners such as teachers donate the gift of blood. The foundation also donates to the Dr. Gerry Cunanan Mindanao Heart Fund. Donation of traffic vests were also turned over to the Davao City Traffic Management Center and the Board of Traffic Administration in Cagayan De Oro in 2011.
To protect Phoenix property and aid Davao City during fires, Phoenix Petroleum acquired a fire truck on March 2008. The fire truck is especially equipped with a foam proportioning system, designed to put out residential and industrial fires. The fire truck is based in the Phoenix Bulk Depot Compound in Lanang, Davao City.
In cooperation with the Davao City Fire Brigade, Phoenix holds regular training to its firefighters. The Phoenix firefighting team was first to respond to a fire incident in Sasa in June 2009, and some other fire incidents near the area.
OUTREACH AND DISASTER RELIEF
Since 2007, Phoenix Foundation has made it an annual event to give a Christmas party to children. We also hold medical and dental missions in Davao and Batangas. In December 2011 we built the “Phoenix Play Station” for the children at the Missionaries of Charity’s Home for the Abandoned and Malnourished in Davao City.
Our two Phoenix Runs in Tagum City and Compostela Valley supported housing programs of the local governmanet. The Tagum City Phoenix Night Run was organized for the city’s “Bahay Lingap Program”, while the run in Comval supported the provincial government of Compostela Valley in its “Uswag Gawad Kalinga House Build” to municipalities of Pantukan, Mabini and Mawab, as well as the construction of Sibol Schools in Uswag Gawad Kalinga sites.
In times of disasters, Phoenix Foundation quickly organizes disaster relief operations. We distributed relief goods to victims of typhoon Frank in Western Visayas in 2008, Comval landslide in 2008, typhoon Ondoy in 2009, and flashflood in Davao City and typhoon Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in 2011.