For
this blog, I would like to highlight what I have written in my Individual CSR
project proposal for my company.
I
work for the National Electrification Administration (NEA), a government owned
or controlled corporation (GOCC) under the Department of Energy. We are the
agency tasked to implement the Rural Electrification Program (REP) of the
country. Our vision is “Total electrification on an area coverage by 2020” and
our mission is “To pursue the mandate of rural electrification and to provide
financial, institutional and technical assistance to electric distribution
utilities (electric cooperatives) to make them highly competitive in delivering
quality service.”
Guided
by our core values of “Absolute Honesty, Maximum Efficiency and Total
Solidarity”, we have spread the gospel of rural electrification for the past 46
years to tell the story of rural Filipinos freed from the crippling effects of
darkness.
In
the class session about CSR, one of the topics was about the “Boat of Life”
wherein there is an unequal access to integral human development and that
corporations are described as “Maintaining”, “Exploiting” or “Ameliorating” in
their operations.
I
am proud to say that we at NEA can be considered as an “Ameliorating” corporate
boat, for what can be nobler than uplifting the lives of our fellow Filipinos
that live in the countryside by providing them with the benefits of electricity;
a benefit that most of us already take for granted but for the rest of our
countrymen is just a dream. We at NEA are vigorously turning that dream into a
reality.
This
is confirmed by the numerous awards and citations received by NEA, most
recently is the Islands of Good Governance (IGG) award, in which public sector
agencies were recognized by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) for
their efforts in transformative and sustainable good governance reforms.
To
end this blog, I would like to quote our Administrator that “The journey of
energizing the countryside is a journey taken on not by the agency and the
electric cooperatives alone. It is, above all, a journey of a nation that has
learned to remain hopeful for an energized future.
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