In 2020, JAAF’s role in society has become relevant more than ever. As the nation struggled with several calamities, political turmoil, and a global pandemic, more Filipino families suffered greatly due to poverty and inequality.
These challenges put the Foundation’s thrust and values to the test. The pandemic compelled us to quickly re-examine our why’s, re-think our how’s, and focus on what really matters — to empower Filipino individuals and reach out to communities in need.
The values we inherited from Don Amado — generosity, excellence, pioneering, and commitment — have become the guiding principles for all
the actions of JAAF during the . pandemic After all, this is what the Araneta Legacy is all about. In a time when the nation is in great need, our presence must be strongly felt. And as we provided relief and comfort through our actions, we stay true to the mission that our namesake has wished for in this country.
Judy Araneta-Roxas President
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
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Income statement highlights
JAAF received a total of Php 1,599,248 receipts for the year
and disbursed a total of Php 13,407,523 for its programs (98%) and administration (2%).
Program costs were spread to
Grantmaking Scholarships Gateway Gallery Emergency Relief Operations Special Projects
14%
16%
2%
23%
45%
TIMELINE
COVID-19 RESPONSE
March 17 COVID-19 Test Kits Pledge to QC J. Amado Araneta Foundation and Araneta City pledged to donate local COVID-19 test kits to the Quezon City government.
Mr. Antonio T. Mardo, ACI Senior Vice President, relayed the pledge to Mayor Joy Belmonte last March 10, 2020 to assist the local government in the immediate mitigation and containment of the disease. Through its initiative, JAAF fosters a spirit of cooperation from the private sector in supporting the government.
March 27 Medical Supplies Donation to LGUs
Large containers of alcohol were donated by JAAF, together with some units of thermal scanners. These were distributed last 27 March 2020 to Roxas City, Capiz; Roxas City Isabela; and Roxas City, Mindoro, through Pres. Manuel Roxas Foundation.
April 3 #TWH Food Aid for Brgy. Socorro, QC
Araneta City provides support to the COVID-19 relief operations of its immediate community, Barangay Socorro in Quezon City, by donating additional food aid for indigent families. Done through JAAF, some 3,000 packs of food donations were turned over to the barangay officials, led by Brgy. Captain Dr. Ted Santos.
As of 20 April, beneficiaries of the food packs included the Barangay’s Senior Citizens, families in 14th Avenue, Santolan, Main Street and Liberty Street.
April 16 #TWH in Negros Occidental The JAAF Team in Negros Occidental began its food aid roll-out for Brgy. Don Jorge L. Araneta, Ma-ao, Bago City. A total of 1,150 families were recipients of food packs distributed by Team JAAF - Negros Occidental. The beneficiaries were families inside and also those outside the Ma-ao Central, as well as farmworkers. Priority was given to no and low-income earners, single parents, senior citizens, PWDs, and traysikad drivers.
April 24 #TogetherWeHeal with Art Heals: Portrait for a Cause Gateway Gallery mounted Portrait for a Cause. Those donating Php1,040 equivalent to three (3) food packs to the Together We Heal Donation Drive from April 24 to onwards gets a portrait in digital format.
Friends of Gateway Gallery, talented artist Cee Cadid, Raks Molata, Naning Molata-Gavin, Joem Chua, Ronald Lopez, Dave Temperamente, and Adrian Karl Gutierrez render portraits as a thank you for supporting our indigent neighbors in time of crisis.
May 11 #TWH in Gawad Kalinga – Munting Pamayanan They already received our food pack donations! Thank you for helping our PWD friends in Gawad Kalinga Munting Pamayanan of Quezon City.
May 15 #TWH in Caloocan City Our #TogetherWeHeal donations have reached Bgy. 131 - North Cemetery, Caloocan City.
May 20 WOW-N-WASH in Roxas City JAAF supported the GRF - Visayas’ continued program on the War on Worms, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WOW-N-WASH) in Roxas City. This was also a part of the City-wide Nutritional Feeding Program. Malnourished children in 2 coastal barangays benefited from the Project on its first tranche. They received 5 food packs a week containing powdered milk, eggs, and malunggay bread, with anti-bacterial soap. WOW-N-WASH was initiated in Roxas City by Mar Roxas, Honorary Chairman of GRF.
June 30 JAAF Donates RT-PCR Test Kits to QC JAAF’s Executive Director Diane Romero led the turnover today of COVID-19 RT-PCR test kits to the Quezon City Government. The test kits supplement the government’s initiative on the mitigation and containment of the Pandemic. Together in the photo are Dr. Mary Rochelle Paulino of QC Health Department and Maricar Ocampo RN of The Manila HealthTek Inc.
July 7 #ResilientPinoy If there is one realization in the times of COVID-19 Pandemic, it is the fact the struggle is real. This holds true for businesses. There are those in the micro, small, and medium scale industries who are not as well-equipped as those who are in the large scale. There were those who hit the bottom and quit, those who found new opportunities, and those who are resilient enough and bounced back. #ResilientPinoy was their story. It features resilient Pinoy entrepreneurs’ inspiring tales to stay relevant, be tough, and went on with business at this time of the new normal.
September 4 #TWH in Malabon City Seventy-three nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women and indigent families of Malabon City were the recipients of the last batch of relief goods for #TogetherWeHeal. The relief distribution was done through the Office of Malabon City Councilor Enzo Oreta.
December 25 Christmas Cheers for Frontliners The Araneta Group, through JAAF, helped spread Christmas Cheers to medical front liners at the Barangay Health Centers in Quezon City. Merienda bundles were sent to the Health Centers in District III of Quezon City to express their gratitude for their untiring service. The surprise was very much welcome, with the health workers enjoyed their pizza treat. Last December 25, surprise lunch bundles were sent to the medical teams of select public hospitals. The Emergency Rooms/COVID-19 Centers of Lung Center of the Philippines, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Philippine Children’s Medical Center, Philippine Heart Center, Quezon City General Hospital, and National Children’s Hospital received lunch treats on Christmas Day. Through this gesture, the Araneta Group intended to make Christmas Day like it should be – a reason to celebrate.
March 31 #TogetherWeHeal The campaign for COVID-19 relief efforts was launched. #TWH is a donation drive to help indigent Filipino families in Metro Manila with difficult access to basic food needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It supports the efforts of the local government units in the Metro. This was in partnership with Araneta City, TicketNet, and Bb. Pilipinas Charities, Inc.
April 14 #TWH Roxas City JAAF supported Roxas City LGU and the Gerry Roxas Foundation in responding to the needs of the local community during this COVID-19 pandemic. To give support to overwhelmed front liners, the GRF Convention Center provided daily meals to nearly 300 personnel of the City Command Center, the City Disaster and Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) task force, the security task force stationed at the eight borders of the City, health workers of the Provincial Health Office and volunteer sewers of PPEs of Capiz State University.
The GRF Convention Center also opened its dormitory and provided free meals and amenities for the quarantined 24 nurses and health workers of the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital who were exposed to persons under investigation or PUIs or patients with positive Covid-19. To increase morale and appreciate the 114 front liners of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital, Ganda Kits (Vanity Kits) were gifted to them along with some Easter goodies.
May 8 #TWH in Christ the King Parish in Greenmeadows, Quezon City Christ the King (CTK) Parish has been extending help to poor communities in the Cubao Diocese and medical frontliners in hospitals as part of its OPLAN COVID, an outreach to respond to those most affected by the pandemic. Among those that are supporting this effort is J. Amado Araneta Foundation and other generous benefactors from parish organizations and other entities.
May 13 #TWH in St. Martin de Porres 120 families from St. Martin de Porres of Quezon City received our #TogetherWeHeal family food packs.
May 15 #TWH in Gawad Kalinga - JIACT #TogetherWeHeal family food packs with vegetable seeds were distributed to the 160 families of Julio Iglesias - Araneta Center Gawad Kalinga Village in Tanay, Rizal.
May 26 #TWH in District VI, QC Our #TogetherWeHeal food packs were delivered to the 179 families living in the urban poor community in Bgy Tandang Sora and Kaingin Bukid in Bgy. Apolonio Samson, District 6, Quezon City. These areas are either under observation and assessment for possible lockdown or being prepared for lockdown.
July–December #AranetaBalikPasada Through the help of RiteMed, jeepney drivers, bus drivers and commuters received ascorbic acid tablets at the Jeepney Terminal and the Araneta City Bus. #AranetaBalikPasada was launched to support bouncing back drivers who are recovering from months of being idle.
Considering their overall welfare, vitamins, oral rinse, face mask, and fruit juices were distributed to them on different days. This was to ensure that they are protected from the risk of getting the COVID-19 virus. About 150 drivers, 1,000 commuters, and 650 front liners benefitted from the oral solution and face mask packages. Some 200 drivers plus 660 commuters got their share of the ascorbic acid tablets.
July 9 JAAF Supported Roxas City’s “Crops for Creatives” Roxas City’s CROPS FOR CREATIVES, was the local-farmer-driven food security outreach program intended to support artists in time of COVID-19 Crisis. Sackbags-full of products for the arts and entertainment community were distributed. It contained local produce bought from small-scale farmers. The vegetables came from Bolo Vegetable Farms, while the rice was from Gabu-an and the dried fish from Dumolog. Crops for Creatives is a concerted effort of the Roxas City Government, Ang Panublion Museum, Gerry Roxas Foundation, Hublag Foundation, with the support of JAAF.
September 29 Bayang Hinabi JAAF supported a livelihood training project for Quezon City women entrepreneurs. Bayang Hinabi is a capacity-building training for the women in Barangay Greater Lagro and Barangay Sto. Cristo. Loline Estipona, in her 70’s, from Brgy. Greater Lagro was an Eco Aide (street sweeper) before the Pandemic. She volunteered to be part of the Bayang Hinabi Project and learn to be a sewer for a living. Ten (10) women who were selected are given free training sessions on making PPEs (personal protective equipment), an in- demand but very delicate commodity at the moment due to the pandemic. Once completed, these PPEs were donated to the public hospitals in Quezon City.
JAAF provided the micro-grant to support this Project. Together with its partners, SPARK Philippines, DTI Philippines, and the Quezon City Government, this project aims to provide economic opportunities for local women amidst the pandemic and the country’s economic recession and assist the local health sector through community participation.
October 21 Isopropyl Alcohol for Brgy. Socorro Health Center JAAF donated gallons of isopropyl alcohol to Barangay Socorro Health Center. The Barangay is one of those with the highest recorded cases of COVID-19 cases in District III of Quezon City. The donations was to prevent the transmission in the workplace without hindering the health services offered by the Health Center to its residents.
OUR REACH
15,000+
21
Indigent families, front liners, PUJ drivers, MSMEs, and Youth
NGO and LGU partners
Program Implementation Areas
COVID-19 Response
Education in the New Normal
Other Emergency Relief Response
Soaring, an acrylic on canvas painting by BENEDICT ABIGAN, 2020
SCHOLARSHIPS
Education in the New Normal
With the vast education gap that occurred in the “new normal,” JAAF pursued its internal Scholarship Program for deserving children of underprivileged Araneta Group employees. The Program was even expanded by providing 4-year scholarships to top public school graduates of Quezon City and Bago City in Negros Occidental. Also, JAAF maintained its partnership with Gerry Roxas Foundation and Caritas Manila for their youth development and scholarship programs, yielding close to 200 students aided in 2020.
Gateway Gallery Reinvented
Gateway Gallery launched on July its official app, the Gateway Gallery Pocket Museum. This provides the public 24/7 access to content on exhibits, art, history, and other cultural materials in the museum.
The app was developed primarily to host the SiningSaysay Augmented Reality which provides the user with a compact, multi-sensory experience of Philippine history from prehistory up to the contemporary period by adding the elements of sound, music, motion, space, and narration to a two- dimensional image.
Due to the IATF guidelines, the Gateway Gallery has been closed since March. It was, however, given a special permit to open in November by the Quezon City government as it temporarily converted its space into a Learning Lab for those in need of a quiet, sanitized, and conducive-for-learning nook with free internet connection.
KulturaSerye
The Gateway Gallery responded to the Pandemic and the quarantine restrictions with a series of KulturaSerye webinars, which feature resource speakers who discuss timely cultural issues facing the country today. The events are broadcasted live every month starting July on Gateway Gallery’s Facebook Page. The webinars are FREE, with Gateway Gallery providing an e-certificate for educators’ attendance.
Gateway Gallery completed and launched with Adarna House Publishing the SiningSaya Children’s Workbook, a workbook based on the SiningSaysay Exhibit filled with fun tasks and activities related to Philippine history and culture. It was sold at Php 200, with one book donated to a sponsored child. Sales proceeds were diverted to Operation R.E.A.C.H. in November to help Filipinos displaced by Typhoon Ulysses.
Tanglaw Online Reading Program
It also launched Tanglaw Online Reading Program. Tanglaw means light or guide in Filipino. The program was meant to periodically provide a list of reading materials in Filipino for culture, history, and heritage appreciation.
Kwentuhang Adarna Sa Gateway Gallery
JAAF diverted its Kwentuhang Adarna sa Gateway Gallery activities to a series of online reading session with Adarna House to encourage children to read books and spend time with family.
Digital campaigns
Youth Opines
Launched in July, Youth Opines (YO) made the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages of JAAF became more vibrant with content provided by select YO Correspondents, who are JAAF Scholars. This digital program aims to convey the pulse of the youth and provide a unique mentorship opportunity for the participants.
JAAF #LivingHeroes
Where the people are, JAAF went too. JAAF rode on major social issues for our campaigns that kickstarted advocacy support and enriched community engagements. For one, JAAF acknowledged the heroic efforts of outstanding people who helped make a difference during the COVID-19 Pandemic and recognized them as JAAF #LivingHeroes.
Acts of Kindness
Innovators
Inspiring Stories
#ResilientPinoy
JAAF put MSMEs in the spotlight with #ResilientPinoy. Those who have a story of bouncing back, rebooting, or pivoting your business at the time of the new normal were featured #ResilientPinoy stories in JAAF’s digital pages. The aim was to help and inspire other entrepreneurs to navigate through the crisis and win in the new world. Chosen #ResilientPinoys, aside from published stories, were also rewarded with a 1-week free lessee space at the Araneta City Christmas Bazaar on December 2020 for the Christmas Edition.
Art Heals: Echoes of the Pandemic
This online exhibit was launched on July 10 to document the critical times through the art of more than forty Filipino artists.
#YouMatter: Gallery In Your Hands
In partnership with Araneta City, Gateway Gallery launched this digital gallery on October 11. #YouMatter, a visual art exhibit by 11 Filipino artists who are dealing with mental health issues, was meant to validate mental health crisis and stimulate discussions and awareness on this overlooked social problem.
Php 665,280
Worth of COVID-19 testing kits pledged to Quezon City
31,704
Meals given to COVID-19 frontliners
7,257
Food aid with edible seed packs distributed
Php 274,500
Worth of medical supplies contributed to various LGUs
1,000+
Araneta City front liners benefitted from The Kalabasa Project
19
COVID-19-related advocacies and projects provided with micro grants
COVID-19 RESPONSE AT A GLANCE
Other Emergency Response Operations
This campaign started with an internal call for donations from ACI employees for Taal volcanic eruption victims on January 15. After two days, JAAF gathered enough donations for 300 families, which were turned over for an outreach on January 19. The campaign was then expanded to cover malls as drop-off centers. By February 10, with close to 5,500 individual beneficiaries:
Four outreach activities were done to turn over the donations: three through partner organizations who did on-ground activities, and one co-led by JAAF with the Gerry Roxas Leadership Awardees, Inc.
Operation Relief Efforts of Araneta City to Help (REACH) was launched in response to Typhoon Ulysses. Araneta City, through JAAF, also welcomed cash & in-kind donations for displaced families in Metro Manila. By December 2:
Operation R.E.A.C.H.
762,277.60
Amount raised
503
Family food packs
8,250
Kilos of rice
Christine Diane C. Romero Glenda Dawn B. Carlota Gregorio R. Apolonio May Anne B. Geronimo Helen N. Valenzuela
Executive Director Deputy Director Gateway Gallery Curator Program Coordinator and Administrator Gallery Officer
Fulltime Staff
Jorge L. Araneta Judy A. Roxas John Peter Chick B. Castelo Atty. Philip U. Ang
Chairman President Treasurer Corporate Secretary
Officers & Appointees
Jorge L. Araneta Judy A. Roxas Maria Lourdes A. Fores Maria Stella Marquez Z. Araneta Manuel A. Roxas Dr. Benjamin Alimurung Joseph Delano Bernardo Victor Lazatin Jose T. Pardo John Peter Chick B. Castelo Juan Rowell L. Recinto
Board of Trustees
Judy A. Roxas Maria Lourdes Socorro R. Ojeda Margarita A. Fores Atty. Philip U. Ang John Peter Chick B. Castelo Bethilda Castillo Lorna D. Fabian Virgilio Ignacio Antonio T. Mardo Juan Rowell L. Recinto Christine Diane C. Romero Janet Ruth M. Solsoloy
Executive Committee
TEAM
Address: 26F, Gateway Tower, Araneta City, Quezon City, Philippines 0810 Email: jaafoundation@aranetagroup.com Tel. No: +63 8 588-4000 local 7297