Almost two years after the Marawi Siege, evacuees in transitional shelters still need access to basic health services. Some evacuees experience illnesses and are unable to avail of essential services. The health centers, which are still affected by the siege, are far from transitional shelters. To improve the situation, various organizations, including the Philippine Business…
Did you know that the human hair can strengthen cement bricks or that you can use cigarette butts to make paper? These are just some of the innovative investigative projects that senior high school students of Pasay City South High School came up with during the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Boot Camp organized…
Telstra Foundation Philippines, in partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently conducted the ninth session of an 11-day boot camp for senior high school (SHS) students of Pasay City South High School in Pasay City. The activity aims to encourage students to pursue careers in the Science and Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)…
Roslyn Chavez, a housewife from Bantayan island in Cebu, believes she can contribute to the family’s daily financial needs if she could manage a sari-sari store in their area. With four children who are still studying and a husband who works as a construction worker, a sari-sari store is one of the easiest options she…
As a mother, it was painful for 32-year-old Judith Anor to find her children short and underweight for their ages, but with only her husband’s income as a construction worker to depend on, making ends meet was tough. They mostly live on rice, salt, vegetables, and dried fish to cut down expenses, but even that…
The Hershey Company (THC) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently recognized the top students of Manila Daycare Center 5 and 6 in Baseco, Manila. THC and PBSP adopted the daycare center to provide good food and nutrition to malnourished children through the “Nourishing Minds-The Filipino Way” project. When the supplemental feeding started, 37…
At the heart of the roundtable event co-organised by the Philippines Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (PPSA) and the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which welcomed around 50 participants from Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and PPSA member-companies and partners in Makati City. The OECD works with governments, business and civil society on international standards on responsible…
On her first year as principal of Cunalum Elementary School (ES) in 2015, Jessica Castrillo had to stop pupils from drinking through the school’s water tank and other surrounding sources when one of her kindergarten pupils got ill. After drinking from the tank, the girl suffered from vomiting and severe bowel movement for more than…
One of the challenges in reducing Tuberculosis in the Philippines is the low notification and low utilization of the GeneXpert machine, a confirmatory diagnostic tool for TB that is recommended by the World Health Organization. In 2017, notification of Drug-Resistant TB (DRTB) cases was only at 84 percent despite the availability of 335 GeneXpert machines….
About 90 frontline health service providers in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) recently attended a training on how to administer Progestin Sub-dermal Implants (PSI) through the ARCHES Project or “Improving the Availability of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.” The project aims to improve the availability…
Intellicare (Asalus Corporation) continues its long-time partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to work together in uplifting lives through projects in health and environment. As part of the partnership, Intellicare and PBSP will implement 25 Safe Motherhood Caravans, four batches of Trainers’ training on safe motherhood, the reforestation of three hectares in the…
