For 35 years, the Toyota Motor Philippines Foundation, the social and humanitarian arm of Toyota Motors Philippines, the country’s leading automobile manufacturer and distributor of automobiles has continuously served the Filipino people, guided by its late founding chairman’s words.
The foundation focuses on four main pillars of advocacy: health, education, environment and community service.
Since its beginning in 1992, the TMP Foundation has provided 101,700 needy medical and dental patients with useful aid. It has donated vehicles transformed into mobile diagnostic clinics and laboratories in partnership with the Lab for All program of First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos, and more than 140 beneficiaries served under the Medical-Surgical Outreach Program in partnership with the Makati Medical Center, the Santa Rosa Community Hospital and the City Government of Santa Rosa.
The TMP Foundation also serves over 120 residents at regular dental missions in the Gawad Kalinga (GK) Village in Santa Rosa City, a village which Toyota helped build as part of its Community Service Initiative. In this GK village, the Foundation has helped build 160 homes for Santa Rosa City’s needy constituents, alongside a Multipurpose Community Hall for the residents of the village. Santa Rosa City is where the production facility of Toyota Motor Philippines calls its home. Aside from Santa Rosa, TMP Foundation has also donated traffic outposts Paranaque City. Additionally, during each time a natural calamity or disaster struck our nation, TMP Foundation would always step up to help the hardest hit communities in the for of relief drives and in some cases emergency evacuation.
Toyota as a whole has always been conscious of the environment, hence its push to build more efficient vehicles with lower emissions which include battery electric vehicles and hybrids, hydrogen powered vehicles and more. The TMP Foundation shares this vision of a cleaner and fgreener environment and thus puts this as a core pillar. It helps nurture the adopted 10-hectare reforestation area in Makiling Botanic Gardens, with 9,190 trees and 95 palm seedlings planted. It supports the U$3 Million Dollar reforestation project in Peñablanca, Cagayan Province. The Foundation also supports the development of the Puerto Galera Biodiversity and Environmental Research and Outreach Center in partnership with the UP Marine Science Institute. Recently, TMP Foundation has donated brand-new Tamaraw service vehicles and Bantay Tamaraw (indigenous water buffalo) Kits in support of the Depart,ent of Environment and Natural Resources’ Tamaraw Conservation Program, the namesake of Toyota’s best-selling utility vehicle. Over the years, TMP Foundation has participated in more than 15 coastal and river clean-up activities nationwide.
Its final pillar for the last 35 years is education, the key to truly battling poverty, corruption and social injustice. To date, Toyota has 19 partner institutions in its Automotive Education Program. Over 1,200 graduates have received assistance from the TMP Foundation’s scholarship program, and is supporting the 100 Million Peso-Project of the University of the Philippines and Toyota Motor Philippines’ GT Toyota Asian Cultural Center in the Diliman Campus of the University of the Philippines. The Cultural Center sits on a one hectare property that serves to help facilitate both culture; and intellectual exchange amongst the country’s brightest minds. The Foundation has in the past donated numerous training vehicles to partner technical schools. For primary school levels, Toyota also had a project called Quest For the Best, which saw 330 grade-school students participate. Indeed, the Foundation, much like the automobile company itself have been busy, becoming pillars of society through its advocacy as well as providing numerous jobs and foreign direct investments to the company. On their 35th Anniversary, Toyota Motor Philippines Foundation adds a new advocacy, a new pillar to its goal of uplifting the Filipino people: Mobility+
“In synergy with the other pillars, it will be instrumental in creating a bigger impact through the mobility of people, mobility of things, mobility of information and mobility of free and creative ideas for many Filipinos,” TMP and TMP Foundation chairman Alfred Ty said during TMP Foundation’s 35th-anniversary celebration.
In line with the new advocacy pillar, the TMP Foundation is teaming up with the Toyota Mobility Foundation of Japan and the UP-PGH Hospital for the Healthcare Mobility for All, or HEAL Project, which aims to improve the mobility and accessibility of health care services for both patients and health care workers in the country. It is a pilot program which the stake-holders hope to be replicated by other entities to help provide healthcare accessibility to all Filipinos, especially to those who are in dire need of affordable and reliable healthcare access but are hampered by cost, logistical concerns and overall accessibility.
“In the Philippines, we recognize that mobility can enhance the availability of transportation for health care professionals, and also improve health care accessibility for the Philippine public,” Toyota Mobility Foundation Program general manager Nanako Kumamoto said.
The project, which will run from July 2025 to December 2026, will introduce two mobility solutions: a mobile clinic and a shuttle service. The mobile clinic will, outfitted with the latest diagnostic equipment will initially service Ternate, Cavite and will eventually service New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac. Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, UP-PGH Director noted that the vast majority of patients coming to PGH for assistance are from CALABARZON Region, and most of them originating from Cavite. The Municipality of Ternate seemed a good fit and was thus chosen to be a partner in this pilot program.
TMP Foundation Chairman Alfred V. Ty noted that the Foundation, since its inception has donated over P800 Million back to Philippine society, and that number will continue to grow through the years.
35 years of service to the Filipino people. This is the Toyota Motor Philippines Foundation.
