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34 CEMEX+ME 1st Half of 2004 /MANILA, PHILIPPINES RIGHT CEMEX offers basic medical services to communities where they operate through a series of medical missions. FAR RIGHT Residents of far-flung communities line up for basic health services that they usually don't have access to. APO and SOLID reach out to their neighbors through backto-back medical missions CEMEX Philippines’ APO and SOLID Cement Plants held back-toback medical missions within each of their communities in April 2004. These medical missions are part of the “CEMEX with a Heart Program,” that provides, among others, sustained health and education services to community residents. On April 22, APO gave approximately 400 patients free medical consultation and medicine at the APO Multi-purpose Complex. CEMEX Philippines President Jaime Ruiz de Haro and Naga City Vice Mayor Val Chiong were there to take part in the activity. This was soon followed by Operation Second Chance, where the APO Cement staff and volunteers visited a detention center for minor offenders in Cebu City. Aside from conducting a free medical mission and distributing medicines, the volunteers also distributed personal hygiene kits. Solid Cement also conducted a Free Clinic on April 24, where volunteers gave free medical attention and medicine to approximately 300 patients. CEMEX Philippines Vice President for Planning Alejandro Ramirez Cantu participated in this mission. This medical mission program is a joint effort of the Planning and Human Resources departments, with support from the APO Ladies Club and the Solid Ladies Club. 5,000 5,000 5,000 community community residents residents from from Antipolo Antipolo and and Cebu Cebu benefitbenefit from from CEMEX CEMEX PhilipPhilip- pines’ pines’ free free health health health programs programs Approximately five thousand community residents from Antipolo, Rizal and Tina-an, Naga, Cebu have benefited from free health services since the CEMEX Philippines Group of Companies began conducting medical missions and feeding programs in these areas in January 2004. The free monthly medical missions are part of “CEMEX with a Heart Program”, which was created in 2002 as a holistic approach to community relations—a way of giving back to the communities where it operates. For the first trimester of this year alone, CEMEX has already conducted 12 medical missions in various barangays, benefiting approximately 5,000 community residents in San Jose, Antipolo and Naga, Cebu, where the company’s cement manufacturing plants are located. Local residents and officials alike have warmly welcomed this effort, especially since most of the beneficiaries of the program live in far-flung areas, and who don’t have access to basic health care services. CEMEX Philippines brings medical mission to Tabaco, Albay CEMEX Philippines crossed new territories on May 2 when it brought its medical mission to the Ziga Memorial Hospital, in Tabaco, Albay. The company provided Tabaco residents with free medical consultation and
CEMEX NEWS medicine, as well as free circumcision that was done with the help of three surgeons from the Ziga Memorial Hospital and the Regional Health Unit organized by former Albay representative Krisel Lagman-Luistro and her father, Congressman Edcel Lagman. Congressman Lagman was sincerely happy and thankful that his district was a recipient of CEMEX Philippines’ support and commitment to help address the basic health needs of the people. CEMEX helps young students map out their futures Aware of the difficulty that young students face today in choosing college courses—and, eventually, careers—to pursue, CEMEX Philippines in March 12, 2004 organized a Career Orientation for over a thousand graduating students from Naga National High School (NNHS) in the APO Multipurpose Complex in the APO Cement Plant, Tinaan, Naga, Cebu, and Mayamot National High School (MNHS) in Antipolo City. Both are adopted schools of CEMEX Philippines. Speakers from the CEMEX Makati office, as well as from APO Cement and Solid Cement Corporations, gave the students inspiring talks to encourage them to take their career choices seriously, as these will largely determine their professional and personal success. The speakers offered different insights on the various challenges and opportunities awaiting the students in various professional fields, perhaps helping to crystallize the youngsters’ choices as early as now. APO employees and volunteers donate blood for a cause On February 17, 2004, APO plant employees, contractors, and community residents trooped to the APO Multipurpose Complex in the APO Cement Plant, in Tina-an, Naga, Cebu to support the Philippine National Red Cross’ (PNRC) blood-letting program.The activity was done through the efforts of APO employees and the APO Ladies Club, in coordination with the PNRC Cebu Chapter. The PNRC is the government’s auxiliary arm that provides relief, health, and welfare services to those in need, including victims of disaster and other emergencies.
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