Nestlé Philippines desires to make a meaningful difference in the lives of communities close to its heart – the barangays where its factories are situated, the farmers who produce the coffee it manufacturers, and the youth who make up a significant percentage of its consumers. Beyond these specific communities, Nestlé is also sensitive to the plight of families whose lives have been overturned by natural misfortunes, coming to their aid to help them recover from their losses.

Nestlé’s outreach programs thus span a wide scope, ranging from skills training to livelihood opportunities, from disaster relief to village reconstruction. Using its resources in great measure and encouraging voluntary services from its employees, the Company carries out community development with vigor that remains fresh through all these decades, ever inspired by the continuing evidence of countless lives it has touched, uplifted, and, in some cases, redeemed from hopelessness.

Helping Farmers Do Good Business
Coffee farmers are Nestlé’s fundamental partners in producing coffee products of the highest possible quality of Filipino consumers. Knowing this, the Company pursues an agronomy program aimed at helping farmers improve both the quality and quantity of their coffee yield. At the center of this program is the Nestlé Experimental and Demonstration Farm (NEDF) in Tagum City, Davao Del Norte, which was built in 1994 to serve as the hub of the Company’s agricultural research and training activities.

“Planting coffee and selling to NESCAFÉ are two of the most important decisions I have made in my life. It allowed me to send my 12 kids to school and to live comfortably.” Claudio Arandio of Silang, Cavite, aged 81, coffee farmer since 1975