First Theme: Education and Awareness
The program will focus on providing access to education and build awareness in renewable energy.
External stakeholders who will serve as key partners will be universities and local government.
Program 1.1: The Usbong Scholarship Program “A help that grows”
The Usbong Scholarship Program will provide financial, technical and moral support to young students to pursue tertiary education focusing in Agriculture, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. The goal is to equip scholars with the necessary educational and technical foundations needed to enter the future workforce as an industry professional and provide them with vital economic opportunities necessary to pull both themselves and their associated families out of poverty.
Program 1.2: Bantay Basa and Brigada Eskwela
The Bantay Basa Program is literacy program offering an unconventional approach in encouraging students to read and write by utilizing learning enforcement tools. The goal is to supplement Department of Education’s Literacy Program within Citicore host communities where resources are scarce and limited.
The Bantay Basa Literacy Program was piloted in Citicore Biomass as majority of the parents especially women in the communities are employed in Citicore Plantations where mostly are non-readers and/or lacking the skills to teach their children at home. Teaching parents to teach their children is the program’s long -term plan as Program implementation is extended to communities in partnership with the host schools to encourage Non-readers/Non-writing parents to learn with their children.
Brigada Eskwela is an annual provision of support to Schools where Citicore operates before the opening of classes.
Program 1.3: Internship and Citicore Scholars Outreach Program
The Internship Program offers university students a venue to experience working in the field of biotechnology and renewable energy. Interns will be embedded into various company departments and will essentially work for free in exchange for gaining experience.
Scholars Outreach program provides scholars an opportunity to give back to the Company through community service, participation on implementing community programs and conducting IECs within their communities.
Program 1.4: Stakeholder Study Tour Program
The Stakeholder Study Tour Program is about building awareness on renewable energy for a target stakeholder. The program aims to provide stakeholders with a first-hand look on the advantages of renewable energy and the necessary benefits it can provide with their communities. The program will target mainly LGUs, Regulatory bodies, Universities and attached agencies.
Program 1.5: Procurement of Calamity or Crop Insurance for the Communities
Philippines being a country often visited with natural calamities, procurement of Calamity or Crop Insurance for the communities where we operate is beneficial and appropriate. The goal of this program is to generate funds from other sources to fund foundation’s relief operations and/or prevent farmers in the communities from total lost.
