Many smallholder farmers in the Southern Philippines live in poverty because of small farm plots, ageing farmers, lack of knowledge, and lack of economic opportunities. To help address this problem, PBSP, in partnership with Kennemer Foods International, Mars Foods and Agronomika Finance Corporation, has gotten the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark…
In spite of the Philippines’ rich and bountiful agricultural lands, majority of Filipino farmers still live in poverty. Many smallholder Filipino farmers even have difficulty selling their crops in the market and lack opportunities to supply their produce to the food manufacturing industry. In the Southern Philippines, some of the common problems among farmers include…
Around 200,000 teens aged 15 to 19 and 2,000 children aged 10 to 14 get pregnant every year. This was reported recently by Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) Executive Director Dr. Juan Antonio Perez III, MD, MPH during the policy agenda workshop on population, health and environment last October 21, 2019 at the Sequoia…
Life has been difficult for Mary Ann Razos, a mother of eight from Baseco, Manila who has to work hard to support her children. At exactly two in the morning, Razos would wake up and begin her day by storing water, preparing food for her children, and cleaning their small sari-sari store which also doubles…
Freshwater is only 2.56 percent of the world’s water based on a report of the National Geographic. As population continues to grow, demand for water also increases despite the diminishing water resources. In the Philippines, there are only 146 billion cubic meters of freshwater for over 107 million people, leading the country to experience what…
The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and NALCO Water Philippines (NALCO) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement for a water system project in Calauan, Laguna. The project titled ‘NALCO Brings Safe Water to Site 2 of Southville 7,’ aims to build a water treatment system that will provide safe drinking water to at least…
Fluor Daniel Inc., Philippines (FDIP) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently marked International Coastal Clean-up Day in Naga City, Cebu with their own clean-up activity as part of their environmental initiatives to keep coastlines in the country clean. Over 90 employee-volunteers from FDIP gathered together to collect and clear the trash littering the…
Every day for 15 years, Babylin Palban would cross a small portion of the Sapangdaku river in Cebu several times just to monitor her teachers and teach students who are attending classes in two different locations. Her kindergarteners as well as the first, second and third graders are housed in the barangay hall on one…
In the town of San Vicente, Catbalogan City, there is an abandoned jailhouse with nine hectares of mostly forested land. Archimedes Fabellar did not know why he signed up for the monumental task of transforming it into a senior high school for agriculture but from the way things have turned out, he is glad he…
Myra D. Vinson topped this year’s batch of the Beauty for a Better Life (BFBL) Program of L’Oreal Philippines. Her batch in Barangay Western Bicutan is one of three batches that graduated in August 2019 from the program. Vinson, a mother of four, who used to skip class just to be with her friends in…
PhilPacific Insurance Brokers and Managers, Inc. (Philinsure), together with Philippine Business for Social Progress, launched the Supplemental Feeding Program ‘NutriSapat, Batang Angat,’ in support to the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (2017-2022) at Barangay San Luis in Antipolo City. There are 30 wasted and undernourished children who will be part of the program of…
Over 60 representatives from PBSP’s member companies and partners gathered recently during the 31st Visayas Annual Membership Meeting of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) at the City Sports Club in Cebu City. They celebrated the accomplishments of PBSP with its member-companies and partners in the Visayas in the previous year, and also discussed…
Over 80 representatives from PBSP’s member-companies and partners gathered today for the 31st Visayas Annual Membership Meeting of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) at the City Sports Club in Cebu City. National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Region VII Director Efren Carreon was the keynote speaker in the event themed “Greater Corporate Engagement and…
In spite of the bad weather, around 500 employee-volunteers from 27 companies, professionals, athletes, enthusiasts, and families trooped to the Marikina Sports Complex last Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 to run for the reforestation of the Marikina Watershed during the 2nd Marikina Watershed Family Fun Run (MWFFR) organized by the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP),…
Over 50 employee-volunteers and 10 executives of Hino Motors Philippines recently joined the tree planting activity of Philippine Business for Social Progress at the La Mesa Watershed in Quezon City. They planted 1,000 Molave seedlings as part of their commitment to their mission to make the world a better place to live in by helping…
Over 600 employee-volunteers from the Aboitiz Group and several of its business units communed with nature last July 13 for the Aboitiz group-wide Simultaneous Tree Planting (STP), in partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress. The Cebu-based employees planted 12,000 native tree seedlings in Barangay Pamutan, Cebu City as part of the Aboitiz Group’s A-Park…
For their 7-Eleven Day celebration, employee-volunteers of Philippine Seven Corporation (PSC or 7-Eleven) joined the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) during the organization’s kick-off of this year’s reforestation caravan in the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMRBPL), popularly known as the Marikina Watershed in Calawis, Antipolo, Rizal. The company’s executives led their 45…
To improve the global competitiveness of future employees in Negros Oriental, business leader Edward Du pushed for the digitization of the basic education system in all public senior high schools in the region. Du, who serves as the Regional Governor of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce in Central Visayas, underscored that digitization is the answer…
An army of over 400 employee-volunteers from various companies and institutions recently came together on a sunny day in Barangay Buhisan, Cebu, with just one goal in mind: to plant 7,500 tree seedlings in the Buhisan Watershed and Forest Reserve (BWFR). The employee-volunteers from PLDT, Inc., AAI Worldwide Logistics, Inc., Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc., Ludo…
