TWO companies operating the Masbate gold project in Aroroy town have sustained their financial and other relief assistance to calamity-stricken residents affected by the series of typhoons that hit Albay, Masbate, and Leyte provinces.
The two firms, Filminera Resources Corporation and Phil. Gold Processing & Refining Corp., gave away emergency kits to the needy residents of the three provinces.
Their latest humanitarian endeavors amounted to P 2.2 million for Albay involving the distribution of emergency kits and firefighting gear worth P6.8 million since the start of their philanthropic programs in 2021. Earlier this year, the two firms also donated fire-fighting equipment and emergency kits to the fire departments in Manila, Masbate and Leyte.
Through the two firms’ partnership with GlobalMedic, a humanitarian aid organization based in Ontario, Canada, more than 2,000 families in Legazpi City, Daraga and other municipalities of Albay received the family emergency kits. Each kit contained solar lights, a household water filtration system, two water buckets with lids, spigot, sponge, and filter, and hygiene kits with several pieces of soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste.
Filminera holds the mining tenements in the Masbate Gold Project site while Phil. Gold operates the processing plant. Phil Gold is fully owned by B2Gold Corp., one of the world’s largest gold producers with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, and three operating gold mines and numerous development and exploration projects in various countries including Mali, the Philippines, Namibia, Canada, Colombia, Finland and Uzbekistan.
The kits were distributed in Matanag, Mabinit at Bonga Evacuation Areas in Legazpi City, Gabawan Evacuation Area in Daraga and Comun Elementary School in Camalig. The Tabang Bicol Relief Operations in Camalig, a joint project of Filminera, Phil Gold, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the local government unit of Camalig Albay, also distributed food buckets along with the family emergency kits to families in several barangays in Camalig such as Anoling, Taladong, Cumon and Bungkaras.
