With our partners, we work to improve the well-being of communities in the Philippines. We support programs that address human needs, enhance education, protect the environment, and help small businesses.

Through our upstream and downstream business units, Chevron works to improve the social and economic well-being of communities where we operate.

Several of Chevron’s corporate responsibility programs in the Philippines are recipients of various local and international awards. Our most recent achievement is as Finalist in the prestigious 2009 US Secretary of State Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). Chevron was selected for implementing projects that address basic human needs, education, small business and entrepreneurial development, environment protection, establishing public-private partnerships and providing funds for the eradication of infectious diseases.

Health

Chevron partnered with The Global Fund with a contribution of $30 million over a three–year period (2008-2010) to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The Philippines is receiving a total of $5 million (Php 235M) to help fight tuberculosis (TB) which is the sixth leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the country. The partnership with Global Fund supports current efforts to strengthen Directly Observed Therapy-Short Course (DOTS) centers, engage the private sector in DOTS, increase demand for TB services and improve treatment management of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB).

Through its network of Caltex stations, Chevron plans to fight TB through an education and awareness campaign targeting Caltex retailers, their forecourt attendants, and public motorists. The focus will be on prevention and early detection of TB to help stop the spread of the disease.

Education and Training

At Chevron, we believe that education is an important factor in the economic growth and well-being of the communities in which we work.

Energy for Learning (EFL) is a long-term initiative by Chevron and its retail brand, Caltex, to support learning-based programs, which help people acquire new knowledge, gain new skills or be exposed to different ways of thinking.

EFL in the Philippines targets groups who do not have the opportunity to benefit from mainstream education. Chevron has proactively engaged local host communities, local governments and non-profit groups to provide relevant learning opportunities for many.

Through Energy for Learning, Chevron provides resource support (e.g. school supplies, refurbishing school libraries), curriculum support (e.g. literacy programs school talks and workshops) as well as livelihood skills and vocational training

Our main volunteer effort is the Caltex Mentor Program Drive to Literacy. Chevron employees and their key stakeholders that range from Caltex retailers, other business partners, and customers volunteer in public schools, helping elementary school children with reading difficulties accelerate their learning capacity and turn them into readers.

We offer high school and college scholarships to financially challenged, academically gifted students. After two decades, the program has helped 700 youths graduate.

In partnership with eSkills and Don Bosco School, we support vocational and technical skills training for out-of-school youths. Of the over 200 graduates of the program, 82 percent are either gainfully employed or work for themselves.

We support the Marcellin KAPATID (Sibling) Program, a skills training and employment project in General Santos City that trains out-of-school youth and children-in-conflict-with-the-law in welding, small engine and automotive engine repair. At least 337 trainees have graduated from the program as of January 2009 with 60% currently employed.

We finance programs that allow young people to gain skills that will help expand their job opportunities. Caltex supports a project in Makati that trains migrant youth in baking and marketing. The Caltex Loaves and Fishes Bakery in General Santos City was created in partnership with the Marcellin Foundation to help troubled youth. Barely a year in operation, this program now has added three new bakeries.

Chevron employees also volunteer to help the Brigada Eskwela (School Brigade), in partnership with the Philippine Department of Education, in supporting the maintenance of public school classrooms.

The My Library Project is a concerted effort of the Filipinas Heritage Library and Chevron to enhance the resources and capacity of the public library in Tiwi, Albay and the school library of San Antonio Elementary School in San Pascual, Batangas. The project calls for the upgrade of library resources, facilities, and services. Related activities are organized to promote a greater love of reading and learning. My Library promotes a greater awareness and appreciation of the locale’s heritage by integrating activities that highlight local stories, myths, characters, and heroes.

Caring for the Environment

We support the Project Seahorse Foundation – a Chevron Conservation Award winner – that works in the rich Visayan seas of the Philippines. For the past three years, we have been funding a multi-sectoral effort to conserve and promote the sustainable management of resources in the endangered Danahon Bank Double Barrier Reef.

Chevron Philippines is a founding member of the Philippine Eagle Foundation Inc., which helps protect and preserve this endangered national treasure and its habitat. We donated cryogenic equipment for the breeding program. Our annual donation supports other foundation operations.