PBSP to hold 27th Visayas Membership Meeting
Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the largest business-led social development organization in the country, will hold its 27th Visayas Membership Meeting (VaMM) tomorrow, June 24, 2015 at the Casino Español de Cebu, Cebu City.
Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro will deliver the keynote speech before 300 business executives and development partners from 150 institutions.
Themed “Business Rebuilding Lives,” this year’s VaMM aims to report to member-companies the impact of PBSP’s Project New Dawn on its beneficiary communities who were affected by super typhoon Yolanda last November 2013.
Project New Dawn was launched in June 2014 to provide long-term rehabilitation interventions on the areas of Health, Education, the Environment and Livelihood & Enterprise Development (HEEL) in the affected communities.
The VaMM also seeks to reiterate PBSP’s vision in making its disaster response initiatives more efficient, more immediate, and more vertical, especially in the Visayas as part of the Foundation’s goal of strengthening its core programs on HEEL.
Other highlights of the event include the introduction of two new projects—a rehabilitation project with Help from Germany and the International Labor Organization for 800 households in northern Cebu and a sustainable coastal livelihood and resource management project in Daram, Samar with the Karl Kübel Stiftung für Kind und Familie (KKS) benefiting 12 coastal barangays—as well as the recognition of two new member-companies, Lear Corporation and City Savings Bank.
Since its inception in 1970, PBSP has been harnessing tried-and-tested business solutions of companies against poverty through different expressions of corporate citizenship. In the Visayas region, the organization’s continuing and growing operations started when the Visayas Executive Committee (VIXCOM) was convened in 1986 and when the regional office was opened in the same year.
Membership meetings are held annually in Manila and in its regional centers in Cebu and Davao, to efficiently communicate the work of the foundation to PBSP member-companies and partners from the public and private sectors.
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