e love stories about
cars and the people
who drive them.
What we enjoy
more, though, are
tales of people actually using their
cars to help others.
It’s timely that we’re featuring the
Mini Car Club of the Philippines (MCCP)
this month, considering all the crazy rain we’ve been
getting lately. The members know that the typhoon
season greatly affects our less fortunate brothers
and sisters. So they’ve made a yearly tradition, in the
Filipino spirit of bayanihan, to pool resources for food,
clothing and water to donate to affected communities.
Once enough supplies are collected, the club makes a
fun drive out of delivering relief goods to emergency
assistance centers—using their Minis, of course.
The club’s generous activities stand out, because
more than just creating a venue for networking,
holding track days and fun runs, and sharing a
certain camaraderie over the little car they all love,
the members are very driven to lend a helping hand
to those who need one. Other socially responsible
activities they have done include setting up a small
public library in Barangay Bagong Ilog in Pasig, and
doing yearly Christmas toy runs in
which they visit an orphanage, spend
time with the kids, and give them
presents. These folks who drive
such small cars do indeed have very
big hearts.
The MCCP is vocal about the
fun and sense of fulfillment they
get when they do these charitable
acts, and this is perhaps because each
of the 218 members is centered on the
concept of family. The club schedules
regular family movie nights, and even overnight
fun runs with the spouses and kids in tow. Also, Sunday
is still considered sacred among MCCP members as
family day, so fun runs and any other activities are held
on Saturdays instead.
When it all comes down to it, the MCCP is a group
of people who feel strongly about the world’s most
famous small car. But more important, it’s a group of
like-minded individuals who see how a little car, when
driven by the spirit of giving, can be the biggest thing on
the road and in everyone’s heart.
Mini Car Club of the PhiliPPines
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Being big
on giving
Words by enrico miguel subido PhotograPhy by J
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ramos
they love their minis, but for these
guys, it’s not always just about cars
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The marque is Brit, but
the club activities are
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