Maritime talent development programme & Donation to hospital in the Philippines

Holy Cross of Davao College, Mindanao, Philippines

Extensive talent development programme

NORDEN has an extensive talent development programme for maritime students at the Holy Cross of Davao College (HCDC) in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The programme consists of two parts: Scholarships for four top students in their third year of studying maritime navigation and 20 scholarships for four first-year students starting in March 2008. In addition to receiving full scholarships, the four third-year students will also receive intensive tutoring in English. Also, they will be offered employment contracts as cadets in the NORDEN fleet for 12 months after passing their third-year examinations. The 20 first-year students will also receive full scholarships and will receive special training in English. Depending on their individual merits, NORDEN will evaluate the options for further funding or development programmes.

The Holy Cross of Davao College has more than 8,000 students enrolled in various courses and studies. The number of maritime programme students totalled 533 in November 2007.

Read the full original article in NORDEN News Magazine. In Danish.  

Philippine union AMOSUP’s hospital

Donation to health work in the Philippines

D/S Orient’s Fond has, on behalf of NORDEN, made a donation to the Philippine union AMOSUP’s hospital in the capital Manila in the Philippines.The donation, which is going to be spent on equipment for diagnosing neurological diseases, was presented at a ceremony in the beginning of July 2007 in Manila.

The Philippine mariners and their relatives are very reliant on the free medical treatment which they as members of the union have access to at AMOSUP’s hospitals. NORDEN has visited the hospital and the neurological centre in Manila, and were very impressed with the dedicated work and expertise to be found there - and also with the large inflow of mariners and their relatives. It is therefore only natural for us to aid in this work.

General health insurance

The Philippines is a large island kingdom, and with a population of 90 million distributed on 300,000 square kilometres and more than 7,000 islands, far from everyone has easy access to the facilities provided by AMOSUP in the capital Manila and in other large cities. NORDEN has therefore also introduced a general health insurance scheme for all our Philippine employees. The scheme provides the employees and their relatives with access to free medical treatment at local practitioners and specialists in all of the Philippines.