Filipino-Chinese group raises P270 M for relief

The Filipino Chinese community’s 11 major Filipino-Chinese business, civic and cultural organizations have formed the Filipino Chinese Community Calamity Fund (FCCCF), raising P270 million in donations from March 12 to April 30, in order to undertake charities and civic projects to support medical, police and military frontliners as well as help marginalized people whose livelihoods have been disrupted.

Among the continuing FCCCF distributions of relief assistance include medical supplies and donations of food packs for the urban poor families all over Metro Manila and to the rural poor in the provinces from Luzon, Visayas to Mindanao.

The FCCCF is led by chairman Henry Lim Bon Liong, who is president of the business and civic organization FFCCCII. The two vice-chairmen of the FCCCF are Yang Huahong of the Federation of Filipino Chinese Associations of the Philippines and Lugene Ang of the Philippine Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.

Among the 11 major Filipino Chinese organizations behind the FCCCF are the following: Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) and its philanthropic arm FFCCCII Foundation Inc., Federation of Filipino Chinese Associations of the Philippines, Philippine Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (PCCCII), Overseas Chinese Alumni Association of the Philippines, World News Daily, Filipino Chinese Amity Club, Filipino Chinese Shin Lian Association.