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Metro Pacific Tollways South (MPT South) just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) to address cases of stray animals wandering in the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway (CAVITEX), CAVITEX C5 Link, and the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX).

Pitmaster Foundation has so far donated 137 ambulances to beneficiary local governments and provides assistance the government’s vaccination campaign.

Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) signed a multi-year agreement with UNICEF to help support 100 schools in high-risk areas, reaching potentially 20,000 children. The project aims to support improved road safety and safe journeys for school-children in high-risk areas, with road safety awareness, health systems strengthening, child responsive urban planning, and enhanced child rights principles in business practices, in support of global targets to reduce road traffic fatalities by fifty percent (50%) by 2030.

While sustainability is just flourishing as a battle cry and pursuit for many corporations in the Philippines as underpinned by the implementation of the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) framework this year, First Gen Corporation Chairman and CEO Federico R. Lopez highlighted that “corporate sustainability that seeks to simply ‘tick the box’ or do less harm is no longer good enough.”

Thousands of people, dozens of communities and hectares of forests carry the signs of good deeds of companies in the Philippine automotive industry. These are recognized by the Driven To Serve awards of the Society of Philippine Motoring Journalists (SPMJ)