Foundation offers scholarships to tobacco farmers’ children

MightyCorporation  or Mighty Corp announced that through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm Wong Chu King Foundation (WCKF), they will be providing educational assistance, consisting of 100 colleege scholarship grants, to poor but deserving students who are children of tobacco farmers in Northern Luzon.

Mighty Corp President Edilberto Adan pointed out, “Formal schooling is often too expensive and priced well beyond the reach of the poor, including tobacco farmers.  This is our way of thanking the farmers for helping to make our company what it is today.”

Adan added that the new scholarship program is one of three components of a P10-million joint CSR project of Mighty Corp and the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives (NAFTAC) that aims to benefit 65,000 farmers in Pangasinan, La Union, Abra, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.

The formal signing rites for the project  was held in a hotel in La Union and is to expected help 65,000 tobacco farmers in the Philippines. 200 farmer leaders who are members of the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives (NFTFC)

NAFTAC National President Mario Cabasal pointed out, “We are happy that Mighty Corporation, through its Wong Chu King Foundation, has stood firm on its commitment to help 65,000 tobacco farmers in the Philippines.”

The scholarship program is in support of the educational project for poor but deserving graduate meeting high school students and dependents of tobacco farmers. Other components of the project include agricultural production assistance, consisting of 16 hand tractors worth P2.5 million and 90 irrigation pumps worth P1.1 million; and institutional support for the annual search for outstanding tobacco farmers and cooperatives by the National Tobacco Administration (NTA).