In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some 20 top business groups, including the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC), raised over PhP 1.5 Billion to fund Project Ugnayan, which had targeted the distribution of grocery vouchers to urban poor residents in the Metro Manila Area.

When asked for the YGC involvement in Project Ugnayan, YGC Chairperson Helen Y. Dee said: “The crisis brought about by the COVID pandemic was unprecedented. As a Filipino company with over a century of history in the country, it was natural for us to look for ways to help overcome the crisis.”

 

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