Nissan dealerships pay tribute to COVID-19 frontliners
NISSAN dealer partners around the country have united to pay tribute to the modern day heroes of COVID-19, by conducting relief efforts for frontliners in the fight against the pandemic.
Nissan Clark employees prepared and distributed 270 food packs with messages of gratitude to various frontline health workers in Pampanga City’s major hospitals. The dealership, owned and managed by the Laus Group of Companies, also donated face masks, personal protective equipment and face shields to the City Government of Pampanga. They also gave face masks and personal protective equipment to the provincial government of Bulacan. The group also donated face masks and personal protective equipment to the provincial hospital of Pampanga and Diosdado Macapagal Hospital.
Tetra Sales and Services and its LICA Group affiliates offered free Nissan vehicle rentals for frontliners. In partnership with Hertz Philippines, medical personnel and health workers were offered free self-drive Nissan vehicle rentals of units such as Nissan Sylphy, Almera, and Urvan to transport themselves to various health facilities.
In addition, the Nissan dealers have also been supporting the frontliners in other ways, such as accommodating medical workers in LICA Group-owned hotels and dormitories in the Manila area, and have been distributing meal packs for frontline workers at various hospitals in Metro Manila.
Nissan Tacloban, owned by the Chan Group, has been distributing food for soldiers and police officers assigned at the checkpoints in Ormoc City and Tacloban City, as well as medical workers.
Finally, Nissan in the Philippines General Manager for Sales Rolando Navarro paid tribute to the front liners by offering an original song he wrote and produced titled“Hibla ng Alaala.”
Geely donates 100,000 surgical masks for medical frontliners
Geely Holding Grouphas made another donation of 100,000 pieces of surgical masks. Last March, the company, through Li Shufu Charity Foundation, has successfully shipped 20,000 pieces of surgical masks to the Department of Health. This is an initial response to the country’s medical sector’s appeal for medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPEs), which were already running out as the number of Covid-19 cases rapidly increased.
With a theme “Mutual Assistance and Solidarity”, a ceremonial turnover of surgical mask donations to ASEAN countries was led by the China-ASEAN Entrepreneurs Association Preparatory Committee.
Geely Holding Group, together with Li Shufu Charity Foundation donated a total of 200,000 medical surgical masks amounting to about 4 million pesos to different countries in Asia like the Philippines, Malaysia, and Laos. Of the 200,000 pieces, 100,000 pieces were given to the Philippines.
Geely Automobile International Sales Company Deputy General Manager Jin Guangyu, said that Geely Automobile will continue to pay attention to the Covid-19 situation in the Philippines, cooperate with its local partners, and use Geely Automobile’s global resources to help in overcoming the pandemic. Meantime, amid the crisis, Geely Group underscored its vow to focus on providing customers with safe and healthy cars.
Many models of Geely have been equipped with CN95 filter elements such as the Geely Coolray and the Azkarra which are currently being sold in the Philippines.
