Aboitiz Equity Ventures : team members bring smiles to over 500 children at annual Christmas Outreach

Aboitiz team members bring smiles to over 500 children at annual Christmas Outreach
December 28, 2015

To share the spirit of the yuletide season, Aboitiz team members in the company's Cebu and Taguig corporate centers simultaneously conducted their annual Christmas Outreach last December 5.

A total of 372 Aboitiz team members, scholars, and Aboitiz Future Leaders Business Summit alumni served as big brothers and sisters to the Christmas Outreach beneficiaries, composed of 250 children in Barangay Hagonoy, Taguig City and 296 children from Cebu City's Agsungot Integrated School, Badjao Tribe in Sitio Puntod, Alaska, Mambaling, and SOS Children's Village Talamban.

The Aboitiz Christmas Outreach, a team member-initiated activity, has become an annual tradition for Aboitiz team members to give back and bring joy to less fortunate children during Christmas.

Led by a Christmas Outreach Committee, Aboitiz team members this year initiated fundraising activities such as a trivia night, a rummage sale, and 'Love in a Shoe Box.'

Meanwhile, to supplement the Aboitiz team members' own efforts, the Aboitiz Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the Aboitiz Group, matched the amount raised from these activities. The funds raised were used to prepare the outreach activities and and purchase gifts and grocery packs for the children and their families.

'We are here to show how we live out our core value of responsibility. You can be sure that we value our time together and hope to make a positive impact, particularly on the lives of these children,' Erramon I. Aboitiz, Aboitiz Equity Ventures President and Chief Executive Officer, said.

'Seeing them smile reminds us that our purpose is being fulfilled. After all, Christmas and excited kids go hand in hand,' Aboitiz added.

The Aboitiz Group encourages active involvement from its team members for various corporate social responsibility activities such as the annual Christmas outreach. This forms part of the Aboitiz Group's drive to make Aboitiz a truly sustainable enterprise that can be entrusted to future generations.