Wong Chu King Foundation, a non-government organization that supports education is funding the construction of the Sacred Heart Chapel of the Senior High School Building of Xavier School in San Juan, Metro Manila.
Wong Chu King Foundation Vice President Caesar Wongchuking said that the project was in line with the passion of his father to help the poor through various programs particularly centered on education.
The new Sacred Heart Chapel is dedicated “in loving memory of the friendship” of Mr. Wongchuking and Jesuit priests Jean Desautels and Ismael Zuloaga.
Fr. Desautels, a French-Canadian Jesuit priest was one of the school’s founders and its first president and director. While Fr. Zuloaga was the school’s longest-serving president and director at 19 years, from 1966 to 1985. The school is named after St. Francis Xavier, one of the first leaders of the Jesuit missions in China.
A lot of people didn't know that Wongchuking was one of the school’s founding donors.
“All of us, my siblings and I, graduated from Xavier School and imbibed the Jesuit’s God, education and service-centered mission,” Caesar Wongchuking recalled.
Meanwhile, Wong Chu King Foundation Executive Director Alex Wongchuking said, “This project is our way of honoring our father’s friendship with the Jesuit community and paying forward for the excellent education we received from the school.”
The foundation also funds the education of hundreds of poor but deserving students all over the country.
Wong Chu King Foundation is the corporate social arm of Mighty Corporation or Mighty Corp, the only wholly Filipino-owned cigarette manufacturing company in the Philippines.
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