{"id":4296,"date":"2018-08-06T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2018-08-06T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:25:07","slug":"holcim-ph-targets-400000-beneficiaries-of-csr-programs-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/holcim-ph-targets-400000-beneficiaries-of-csr-programs-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Holcim PH targets 400,000 beneficiaries of CSR programs by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0612856480x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Building solutions provider Holcim Philippines, Inc. aims to help close to 400,000 people in its communities by 2020 through programs for shelter, infrastructure, education, livelihood, health and safety as part of its social responsibility and sustainability commitments to have a more positive impact on development.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4297\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Holcim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4297\" src=\"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Holcim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Holcim.jpg 620w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Holcim-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>John Stull &#8211; President &amp; CEO;Cara Ramirez &#8211; Head Communication;Steph Fogoso &#8211; Environment Manager; and Ram Maganti &#8211; Senior Vice President for Marketing and innovations<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv0612856480x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Holcim Philippines unveiled these plans on July 26 during the launch of \u201c<i>Holcim Helps<\/i>,\u201d a campaign which standardizes the communication programs of its various sites for their communities particularly on social and environmental initiatives. The campaign also follows the LafargeHolcim Group\u2019s sustainable development strategy which includes a set of actionable goals to contribute to the global efforts in tackling the pressing issues stated in the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0612856480x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Holcim Philippines president and CEO John Stull said that\u00a0<i>\u201cHolcim Helps\u201d<\/i>\u00a0aims to make its communities and the public better understand and appreciate that Holcim Philippines\u2019 programs are about working with our partners for a future for keeps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0612856480x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cHolcim Helps\u201d also underscores our goal of making our programs a collaboration with our communities instead of charitable donations as the primary form of assistance. Instead, our goal is to partner with them to better understand their needs and equip them with the means to improve their lives through capability-building initiatives for a more sustainable and lasting positive impact,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0612856480x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since 2015, Holcim Philippines corporate citizenship programs have benefited close to 300,000 people in its communities and beyond. Education programs have received the largest share of funds for social programs at 32%, followed by livelihood and employment, as well as shelter and infrastructure that have each cornered a quarter of the budget, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building solutions provider Holcim Philippines, Inc. aims to help close to 400,000 people in its communities by 2020 through programs for shelter, infrastructure, education, livelihood, health and safety as part of its social responsibility and sustainability commitments to have a more positive impact on development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[219,2065,2066],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-csr","tag-holcim","tag-holcim-helps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}