In their effort to help and assist the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) Realpage employees turned over their contribution to Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).    Photo shows Jenny Constantino (right), RealPage Philippines’ Vice President for Operations handing the check over to Maria Lourdes G. Arroyo (left), Finance Director, PBSP

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KPGroup Philippines Inc., through Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently turned over PhP 1 M for the benefit of early recovery efforts for the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in Visayas. In photo are (from L-R): Kanepackage Philippine Inc. President, Hirotaka Kanehira; KPGroup Chairman Sakutaro Kanehira; and PBSP Relationship Management Head, Victoria San Juan-Co.

Kanepackage Philippine Inc. and sister company Super Flex Logistic, Inc. recently turned over to Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) their contributions to benefit early recovery of areas in Visayas that were struck by Super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). Photo shows PBSP Relationship Management Head, Victoria SJ Co receiving the cheque from Kanepackage Philippine Inc. President,Hirotaka…

Megaworld Corporation, a Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) member recently turned over a cheque donation worth Php 500,000 to benefit the relief, early recovery, and reconstruction operations for various areas in the Visayas region that was devastated by Haiyan (Yolanda). Photo shows (from L-R): Jerica Inna A. Lechuga, CSR Representative, Megaworld; Maria Lyn B….

PBSP convened DTI, FMCGs, MFIs, Aid Agencies, and other organizations last Monday, 2 December 2013, to discuss how to jump start the sari-sari store economy in typhoon Yolanda affected areas.

Paul Corbett, Country Manager of Leighton Contractors Philippines hands over a check for PhP 2.5 Million to Rafael C. Lopa, Executive Director of PBSP for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda. Thank you Leighton Contractors Philippines for helping us reach more!

Ryan Orteza, Community Relations Officer, STEAG turned over medicines to Dr. Rodel Agbulos, City Health Officer – Zamboanga City

Dr. Ted Yu, Jr., Team Leader, USAID-IMPACT Project Zamboanga hands over medicines from PBSP member company, The Generics Pharmacy to Dr. Rodel Agbulos, City Health Officer – Zamboanga City.

In celebration of National Reading month, PBSP would like to thank PLDT for graciously donating 43 reading corners through the PBSP – Motolite Balik Baterya Program.  Recipients of the first batch of PBSP and PLDT Donated Library Packages are schools in La Union, namely: Aringay CentralCabaruan Intergrated SchoolMangaan Elementary School Rimos Elementary School Sengngat Elementary School Sto. Tomas Central…

Due to the massive devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), multinational financial services corporation, Citi took action and launched a global fund raising for the affected areas. Asia Pacific CEO Stephen Bird petitioned to employees around the locality to assist Citi Philippines in gathering assistance for the super typhoon ravaged Visayas Region. “Our thoughts are…

Makati Garden Club (MGC) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently celebrated the gift of sharing with “The Art of Giving”, the 17th Festival of Trees. Hosted by journalist and TV personality Cito Beltran, the event was held at the Jaguar/Land Rover Showroom at The Fort. Highlights include the silent auction, wherein the patrons…

Member companies and partners of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) have been pooling resources for Typhoon Yolanda (International name Haiyan) relief efforts for the last several days.   Cash contributions have been given by the following: Epson Precision Philippines: PhP2M; Brother International Philippines: PhP500,000; and Mr. Jose Antonio Aboitiz: PhP1M through the PBSP Visayas…

PBSP has ground staff on site at target areas for our relief efforts in the Samar-Leyte vicinity. We are focusing efforts on the towns of Guiuan, Giporlos and Balangkayan which are heavily damaged and in ruins. The town of Llorente, while there is no reported casualty, is also heavily damaged. Most municipalities are 90% devastated….

TRANSCRIPT from CNN interview of PBSP Executive Director, Rafael Lopa

“So I’m going to turn now to Rafael Lopa, who is in Davao City in the Philippines. He is the executive director of the United Way for that country.

I know you’re very busy, so thank you for spending some time with us. Your group is focusing on the long-term recovery. We are taking a look at these images, people who are desperate, who need food, who need water, who are saying they’re still — their children are getting sick. What are you seeing on the ground today?

RAFAEL LOPA, EXEC. DIRECTOR, UNITED WAY IN THE PHILIPPINES: Well, pretty much the same, but what’s reported on TV, it’s really just at the present sites, very overwhelming. Again, you have to understand, this is a – this is the third largest disaster that we’ve experienced in just a span of about two months. We had, of course, a manmade disaster in Zamboanga when rebels invaded the city. But then we had an earthquake in neighboring province of Bohol and now this one.

And really I guess the fatigue of everyone trying to just address the problem, just trying to address this numerous needs of our different disaster victims is just too overwhelming and — but at the end of the day, I think, well, we just can’t stop. We just have to start pushing and pushing and trying to figure out how else we could reach out to our people.

SAMBOLIN: I know there are just some horrific images of devastation and we’re looking that the pictures of these babies. But over the last four days, have you seen any improvements at all?

LOPA: I think it’s really a slow process that’s happening right now. Even we, in the private sector, are still trying to find ways and means to even send some of the relief – relief that we have also put – we’ve been able to assemble independently of what government’s been able to do. Clearly everybody’s trying to augment this. But the transport of these goods and the logistics that need – that are needed is just becoming more and more difficult. We, of course, it’s further aggravated by the peace and order situation that’s happening in Tacloban. So it’s really very difficult to really bring stuff right now, even as we have it. And that continues to be a challenge. But we’re still pushing. We’re still pushing.

SAMBOLIN: Well, Rafael Lopa, executive director of the United Way, we appreciate your time and we wish you a lot of luck.

LOPA: Thank you very much. And just like to take this occasion to ask some of our – some of our friends there in the United States, if you could visit our giving page,www.unitedway.org/philippines. We’ve sort of — we put a portal together with the United Way Worldwide Network to raise additional funds to actually augment whatever relief and rehabilitation efforts that we need to do now and, of course, in the future. We need to rebuild those schoolhouses. We need to rebuild homes. We need to provide additional health services. Definitely there’s going to be a lot of impact on that, not only on the physical, but even on the mental trauma that’s happening there. We do need your help. So, please —

SAMBOLIN: No, absolutely. No, absolutely. Mr. Lopa, absolutely. We will make sure that we have that information available on our website. Thank you so much for your time.