Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) with employee volunteers from member company UBS recently visited Barangay Mascap in Rodriguez, Rizal to plant 157 coconut seedlings in a one hectare coconut nursery. This project, in partnership with the Ayaas-Kayrofa Farmers Associations, is one of the foundation’s efforts to support the rehabilitation of the Marikina Watershed. In photo…
Cathay Pacific employee volunteers spend their weekend helping improve the reading comprehension skills of public school students of the Kapt. Eddie Reyes Palar Annex Elementary School in Taguig, Metro Manila. Aside from employee volunteering, Cathay Pacific also donated supplemental reading books, bags, and other school items for the kindergarten students. This is part of Cathay…
The muddy trail leads one to a mountain-top village of T’nuos in Takunel, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. Mountains seem to touch the clouds in T’nuos, the high ground overlooking Lake Sebu is home to indigenous families belonging to the T’boli Tribe. Subsisting on rootcrops, vegetables, bananas, corn, and other food that abound in their mountain…
Baker & Mackenzie Global Services Manila Inc. turned over a thousand new books and references, shelves, tables and chairs, and other educational materials to Goa National High School in Taytay, Goa, Camarines Sur. This is part of Baker & Mackenzie’s Library Improvement Project to further assist the students and provide them with additional learning equipment.
Dr. Soe Nyunt-U, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in the Philippines hands out symbolic iFLY materials to Mr. Rafael Lopa, PBSP Executive Director at the WHO – PBSP iFLY Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Signing last 12 November 2012 at the Manila Hotel. iFLY (keep Fit. Live well. stay Young) is an initiative to promote…
In photo: Vivian Lee-Tiu, Metrobank Executive Vice President and Human Resources Management Group Head, signs a Memorandum of Agreement for an educational partnership initiative with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), represented by Rafael Lopa, Executive Director, PBSP Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and Metrobank recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement for…
Present at the ADBSA Elementary School launch in Iba, Zambales were: PBSP representatives and partners from the tribal council, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and Botolan Municipal Health Office. A project funded by the United Way of the Bay Area to reinforce health and hygiene was recently launched for 2 Aeta schools namely New San…
Christian R. Gonzales (left), of the International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) hands over to Rafael C. Lopa, Executive Director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), 6.7 million pesos to be used for the 6-month feeding of 1,828 daycare, kindergarten and Grade 1 pupils from Parola and Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila….
Citi Philippines recently hosted a breakfast for the beneficiaries of the Community Enterprise Assistance Project (CEAP), an enterprise development initiative that creates livelihood opportunities for urban poor households in Metro Manila.
Citi Foundation through United Way Worldwide provided the funding that organized 5 enterprise groups (3 manpower cooperatives, a water lily crafts cooperative and a wellness group) with 234 members from urban poor communities in the cities of Quezon, Navotas, Malabon, Pasig and Marikina. The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) was tapped to manage and implement the project.
The monsoon season has begun and floods and landslides are once again making headlines. For many schools in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, the after-effects of the devastation caused by Tropical storm Sendong are still evident. In support of DepEd’s goal to restore normal operations in the affected schools, the Australian Agency for International Development…
It was believed to be extinct because of massive deforestation in Cebu. But in 1998, bird ecologists rediscovered the existence of hawk owls in the small patches of forests in the town of Alcoy in the southern part of the island.
On Aug. 17, the Cebu Hawk Owl (Ninox rumseyi) was formally introduced to the world. It joins two other endemic bird species-the Cebu Flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) and the Cebu Black Shama (Copsychus cebuensis).
“The Cebu Hawk Owl might be critically endangered. The discovery tells us that we really have to go to the islands and implement separate conservation efforts because each island has its own endemism,” said Filipino bird ecologist Lisa Marie Paguntalan.
“Each island has its own provincial treasures which people should be proud of and take good care of,” she added.
The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and Philam Foundation recently signed a memorandum of agreement for the 11th and final year of the Aid for Basilan Children (ABC) Project.
The now more than a decade-old partnership between the largest corporate-led foundation and the leading life insurance company in the Philippines aims to support the education of less-fortunate children in the Basilan Island.
EVEN public school students and teachers are pitching in to build more classrooms for public schools under the “The Entire Nation [TEN] Moves” campaign spearheaded by the private sector. The target: Build 10,000 classrooms all over the country from a P10-donation a day from 2 million donors for 10 months.
Students, teachers pitch in to build more classrooms under DepEd’s TEN Moves
TEN Moves cash donations and pledges as of June 20 totaled P18.3 million.
Education Secretary Bro. Armin A. Luistro, FSC said the Ayala Foundation, on behalf of the 57-75 Education Reform Movement, has released part of the funds to the Philippine Business for Social Progress for the construction of a two-story, four-classroom schoolbuilding at the Indahag National High School in Cagayan de Oro.
Over 800 employees from 34 Philippine-based companies set aside their paperworks for a while and took off their suits to get garbed as eco-volunteers in the 20th run of the massive Cebu Hillylands Reforestation Caravan.
This joint effort to mobilize the various employee volunteers in a single cause to save the Tabunan forest was spearheaded by the non-profit Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in partnership with the Visayan Electric Company (Veco), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and KEEP Foundation.
About 15,000 native and endemic tree seedlings were planted in slopes of sitio Cantipla 2 in barangay Tabunan, Cebu City yesterday, the start of a series of Saturday planting sessions by volunteers of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).
The kick-off of PBSP’s annual Cebu Hillylands Reforestation Caravan was participated in by 750 volunteers from 35 companies.
The site is part of the 29,062-hectare Central Cebu Protected Landscape (CCPL).
Employees from member companies will continue to take turns planting in different parts of Tabunan every Saturday until October 27 to maximize the rainy reason.
“We don’t just plant trees; we let them grow.” This is the headlining campaign of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) as it launched the 20th run of its Cebu Hillylands Reforestation Caravan.
The annual event engages corporate and individual volunteers to not only plant trees but also help ensure their growth.
The event, also in partnership with the Visayan Electric Company (Veco), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and KEEP Foundation, will kick off on Saturday, June 23 in sitio Cantipla 2, barangay Tabunan, Cebu City. It will run for 18 Saturdays until Oct. 20.
The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently conducted the 5th Olango Challenge, an open-water swimming competition that aims to benefit the Olango Island residents in Cebu.
A start-up footwear company which sells fashionable shoes made out of scrap textile and recycled rubber bagged the top prize in the 5th Business in Development (BiD) Challenge Philippines, a business plan competition for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Habi Footwear, managed by 22-year old Albert Go, will represent the Philippines and compete in The Netherlands on November for the BiD Challenge international.
Habi Footwear bested 28 other SMEs present during the event.
The company started as a school project in 2011 which Go, with three other batchmates at the Ateneo de Manila University, worked on with a start-up capital of P40,000.
A footwear retail promoting social entrepreneurship by making fashionable shoes from scrap cloths and rubber won the top prize and the opportunity to compete in the Netherlands in the 5th PBSP Business in Development (BiD) Challenge Philippines.
Habi Footwear, a start-up business managed by the 22-year-old Albert Go, made it a goal to do something extraordinary for the country—one shoe at a time. By engaging its partner community, Go and his colleagues were able to provide a source of income for the financially-challenged families of their partner site by using their hand-woven materials in making shoes.
The Department of Education (DepEd)’s National Schools Maintenance Week, also known as Brigada Eskwela Week, kicks off todaw with several government agencies and private corporations expected to help public schools prepare for the opening classes next month.
Brigada Eskwela enjoins the community to help in repairing and cleaning public schools nationwide.
