COTABATO CITY — The Aboitiz group of companies through the Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (AFI) is set to build at least 45 Silid Pangarap schoolhouses all over the country, with the first one recently constructed for the Cotabato City Central Pilot School (CCCPS), in partnership with the Cotabato Light and Power Co. and the Aklat, Gabay,…
The corporate-led Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently handed over food for the 600 families of Barangay Gugo in Calumpit, Bulacan. After more than a week since typhoons Pedring and Quiel hit Central Luzon, many parts of Bulacan are still underwater. The food relief package consists of 10 kilos of rice, assorted canned goods,…
Jannie Corpus-Sampani, 12, was among the first one to arrive at the Paraiso Verde where a gathering of teachers, local officials and stakeholders of education will be held. The 45-minute jeep ride from Sto. Niño Elementary School where she is presently in Grade VI, did not dampen her eagerness to join in the daylong round table dialogue (RTD).
This will be her first time to speak before a big crowd, not of children, but of teachers, parents, local officials, dignitaries from USAID, the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Education Development Center (EDC) and other representatives from member-organizations of the Education & Livelihood Skills Alliance or ELSA.
MANILA— Malnutrition among children is an alarming health problem which poses an opportunity for private and non-profit organizations to provide immediate help and keep that help in the ring sustainable.
This is why the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), and ICTSI Foundation held a partnership to launch the Lusog Dunong Supplemental Feeding Project Year 2.City Mayor Alfredo S. Lim joined the Project Launch and MOA Signing of Lusog Dunong Year 2 which is a partnership between International Container Terminal Services, Inc. – Foundation Inc. (ICTSI-FI) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) at the Rosauro Almario Elementary School (RAES) in Tondo, Manila. Lusog Dunong Year 2 is a…
MANILA— Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has transformed from being a business expense into an investment and significant force in uplifting the lives of less-fortunate Filipinos. To achieve maximum result through CSR, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) Executive Director Rafael Lopa will discuss how corporate citizenship can create a powerful impact in the upcoming LCF…
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — Experts at the non-profit International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) here are learning a thing or two about “worms for a greener earth” called African night crawlers, as well as breeding food fish like the increasingly popular cream dory and the high-value ornamental fish Japanese koi or carp.
MANILA — Farmers from Central Luzon to Northern Mindanao are benefitting from being part of the value chain systems of the country’s largest corporations, particularly in the onions used for the burger patties of Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) and in the cassava supplies as the principal tapioca (sago) ingredient of San Miguel Foods Inc. (SMFI) – San Miguel Pure Foods.
THE REDUCTION of extreme poverty incidence in the country has remained and will always remain the heart of the matter. With this core issue in mind, the Philippine Business for Social Progress will define its unwavering commitment to reduce widespread poverty in the country by 2015 through four of the critical Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): education, health, sustainable livelihood and enterprise development, and the environment. Towards this end, PBSP has begun to realign its programs guided by the program descriptions as follows:
MANILA — President Benigno Aquino III is set to revisit his roots at the Philippine Business for Social Progress when he graces a gathering of the country’s top corporate leaders and chief executive officers during the PBSP 40th anniversary gala dinner at the Makati Central Business District on January 25.
MANILA — At least 96,030 landless rural workers, sustenance fisherfolks and marginal upland farmers, urban poor and indigenous people comprising of 694 cooperatives, fisherfolk and peasant groups, and urban poor associations and peoples’ organizations were sheltered for the last 20 years in a building project for livelihood and community development.
