No one is safe until everyone is safe. To help curb the spread of COVID-19, Filinvest Development Corp. recently signed an agreement to donate 5,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the people of the municipality of Malay, Aklan. The donation was facilitated through Filinvest Hospitality, Chroma Hospitality and Crimson Resort and Spa, Boracay.
The memorandum of agreement was formally signed by Chroma Hospitality country manager James Montenegro and Frolibar S. Bautista, acting mayor of Malay, during a virtual ceremony held recently. Also witnessing the event was Patrick Manthe, general manager of Crimson Boracay.
The donation is in keeping with the company’s commitment to ensure the health and safety of all its stakeholders. It’s also part of Chroma Hospitality’s Culture of Clean program for safer, healthier experiences for guests, staff and its host communities throughout the country.
“We firmly believe that the only way we can get through this pandemic is if we have a stronger partnership between government and the private sector or private stakeholders of the island,” Montenegro said. “We chose Malay as the first beneficiary for these vaccines, and we have prioritized this because we believe that the people of Malay and the island of Boracay have been through a lot in the last few years, with the closure and now the COVID pandemic.”
For his part, Bautista expressed the municipality’s gratitude for the donation, stating that the vaccines would help tourism on the island to bounce back from the impact of the pandemic. “This is a very big help to the [people of Malay] in order to complete the possibility of 100 percent vaccination not only on tourism workers, but also for the residents of Boracay,” he said.
Crimson Boracay is also the first hotel/resort on the island to make such a timely donation to the people of Malay. The vaccines are set to be distributed among those belonging to priority groups stated in the implementing guidelines of the National Vaccine Deployment Plan for COVID-19, including those working in the tourism and hospitality industries.
In doing so, Crimson Boracay is honoring its commitment to making Boracay “better than ever,” as the gesture aims to help the people of the island return to a more normal way of life as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, as a way of taking the lead in protecting its employees and stakeholders against the virus, Crimson Boracay rolled out a rigorous testing protocol among its staff. The initiative has also been implemented at Crimson’s properties in Mactan and Manila, as well as to Quest Hotels in Cebu, Clark and Tagaytay.
Likewise, FDC and Chroma Hospitality are set to donate additional vaccines to communities in Cebu and in Clark Field, Pampanga.
Through active testing and ongoing vaccination initiatives, it is hoped that Boracay will soon be back on its feet and Crimson Boracay can once again open its doors to the public.
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