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Marubeni Scholarship Foundation Inc.

Sharing the greatest gift: Education

For more than nine decades, Marubeni has considered the Filipino people its partners in success. The company is committed to continue making significant contributions not only to the economy but also to the lives of young Filipinos nationwide. This commitment is concretized in the activities of the Marubeni Scholarship Foundation, Inc.

Because education will always be one of the most important vehicle for the development of the Filipino youth, the Marubeni Scholarship Foundation expects its number of scholars to steadily increase through the years.

Laying the Foundations

The Foundation was established on October 16, 1989, to provide scholarship funds for less-privileged youth seeking a vocational education. An initial grant of US$200,000 was presented to then-Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino by Marubeni's Manila Branch General Manager Morihiko Maruyama. The Don Bosco Youth Center in Tondo became the pilot learning center. Marubeni then infused US$50,000 in 1993, and US$100,000 in 1999.

The Beneficiary Schools

Today, five Don Bosco Training Centers offer Marubeni scholarships to their outstanding applicants. At the centers located in Tondo, Makati, Tarlac, Mandaluyong, and Eastern Samar, out-of-school-youths train for one year to become qualified technicians in automotive, electrical, mechanical, refrigeration and air-conditioning, electronics, and instrumentation technology.

Marubeni scholars enrolled at the Dualtech Training Centers in Manila receive similar technical training. Graduates of Dualtech are specialists in automotive and electronic technology, and are well versed in welding, refrigeration, fiber optics, robotics, and other state-of-the-art technology.

The Family Farm Schools in Dagatan, Balete and Talon Batangas teach a basic high school program for children in rural farm communities. This is supplemented by professional agricultural training in processes such as agricultural technology and mechanics, cooperativism, farm management and marketing, and crop and animal production.

At the Punlaan School, young women hone skills that are valuable to a career in the food and beverage industry. The Foundation has sponsored more than 40 scholars at Punlaan since 1995. Many of these women are now employed and doing well in the industry.

Similarly, the Maligaya Institute of Culinary Arts and Residential Services trains service-oriented young women for employment in the restaurant and hotel industries.

Other schools, which offer scholarships from the Marubeni Scholarship Foundation, are CITE in Cebu, the Aemilianum Institute in Sorsogon, the De La Salle University in Dasmariñas, Cavite, the ERDA Tech and Vocational Secondary School in Pandacan, and the Lipa City Public College.

Professional & Environmental Programs

While its focus is the granting of scholarships to underprivileged youth, the Foundation likewise assists schools in their development of professional and environmental programs.

In 1990, it created a Philippine Science High School Foundation Teaching Chair. In 1994, it donated PhP 150,000 to the same institution to help rehabilitate a creek running along the school campus. In 1995, the Foundation supported the Bamboo Propagation Research Project of the Miriam College. The project studied a variety of bamboo plants to determine which type would grow better in marginal soil, an effort directed at preventing erosion. The Marubeni Scholarship Foundation likewise granted the Cahbriba Alternative School Foundation in Los Banos, Laguna a PhP 100,000 donation to help construct its science workshop. The school is a center for underprivileged students.

Mission Statement

• To provide scholarships, grants, fellowships and other forms of educational assistance to deserving Filipinos as well as provide training and development of human resources.
  
• To provide scholarships and educational grants to deserving students pr professionals and establish, endow, and support professional chairs in various fields of research and instruction; and
  
• To encourage, sponsor, promote, and finance projects and undertakings of an educational nature of character.
  

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