DAVAO, Philippines – Top of her class. Finishing high school as a scholar of the International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) Foundation was only one of the many challenges that Shaina Jane Hugo had overcome. Hugo not only earned and maintained her scholarship, but also surpassed everyone’s expectations when she graduated as the batch topnotcher,…
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THE MANILA Electric Co. (Meralco) recently donated its used lead acid batteries (ULABs) to Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in support of the PBSP-Motolite Balik Baterya project. The ULABs were valued at P484,102, according to PBSP data. PBSP said the turnover ceremony held last April 22 at the Meralco compound in Pasig City was…
Gexel Rose Gonzales, a Petron Tulong Aral scholar is part of a team that won 5th place in the Hyundai New Thinkers Camp, besting 20 other schools in the country. Beyond excelling in school, he is also thankful for Petron’s Best U Can Be (BUCB) life skills workshops that inspired him to carry on amid his struggles In his freshman year…
Cathay Pacific Airways, U freight Philippines and Transglobal Consolidators, with the collaboration of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently brought Christmas cheer as well as fun learning to the students of Poo Elementary School on Olango Island, LapuLapu City. After building the first library on the island and turning it over in June…
Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc. (CCFPI), in collaboration with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and Department of Education (DepEd), recently turned over a two-storey, six-classroom school building to school officials of the Yolanda-torn Marasbaras Elementary School (ES) in Tacloban, Leyte to help bring back a better and more conducive learning environment to its schoolchildren. Leading the turnover…
In San Fernando Central Elementary School in Tacloban City before super typhoon “Yolanda” struck some provinces in the Eastern Visayas region in November last year, around 2,940 students had been trying to fit themselves in only 35 classrooms. Their situation was only one among other schools suffering from congested classrooms and overpopulation. When the whole…
Education stalwarts – Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Insular Foundation and the Department of Education partner for the construction of a classroom building to help Typhoon Yolanda survivors in Leyte. In photo during the Memorandum of Agreement signing are: (from left) Rafael C. Lopa, PBSP Executive Director; Vicente R. Ayllón, Insular Life Chairman of the Board…
Employees of Ace Insurance of the Philippines work together to cover donated books for the students of Ususan Elementary School. The Brigada Eskwela campaign of the Department of Education, in collaboration with the private sector, has already ended after school opening in June, but Insurance Company of North America (Ace Philippine Branch) continues to implement it…
Through its Joy Schools Program, Mondelez Philippines invests in, or more appropriately, builds the future of young people. A school in Tacloban, Leyte, is their newest success story. In less than a month, it will be exactly one year since super typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) hit the Philippines. During its aftermath, international aid…
Peer to peer participants are divided into smaller groups to facilitate the sharing and lessons. Preparing young students for the future by unlocking their full potentials. In partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Petron recently conducted another BUCB leadership and life skills development activity at the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) in…
Organizers, facilitators, and participants of Petron’s ‘Star Struck (Dream, Believe, Thrive)’ training. Preparing young students for the future by unlocking their full potential One of the most valuable lessons that can be passed on to a person is to provide him with the courage to pursue his dreams. Although no amount of preparation will ever…
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA — The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) has been pursuing several social programs aimed at improving the country’s education sector. During the local celebration of the World Teachers’ Day, the organization honored several Filipino educators who have dedicated their lives to being role models to students but as agents of…
The first anniversary of the 7.2magnitude earthquake that struck Bohol on October 15, 2013, approaches, Australian Ambassador Bill Tweddell returned to the province last week to launch the “Abot Alam” program for outofschool (OSY) youth, turn over 40,000 books under the Books for Asia program, lead groundbreaking ceremonies for the construction of classrooms under the…
THROUGH a shared passion for education, Lo-ok Elementary School principal Rustico Entero and his teachers work together with Petron Foundation and Philippine Business for Social Progress to rebuild their school and the lives of their students in Lamitan, Basilan. A principal and teachers’ collective efforts to rebuild their school A classroom is a place where…
Maribel Daisog, P. Manalo Elementary School’s remedial coordinator, passionately strives to help students become proficient in reading. How a teacher’s passion imparts more than reading proficiency to her students How crucial is education in a child’s formative years? Many would agree that the first five years are when milestones are supposed to occur—one of them,…
The Australian government, DepEd, and Philippine Business for Social Progress partner to build schools in Bohol. (Read more) Source: Manila Bulletin, www.mb.com.ph, October 3. 2014
The Australian government, in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) is stepping up the construction of new classrooms in at least seven regions as part of the joint “Basic Education Sector Transformation” (BEST) program. (Read more) Source: Alexander Villafania, local.ph, October 3. 2014
Top officials from the Australian Embassy in Manila, DepEd, and PBSP led the groundbreaking rites dubbed “BEST (Basic Education Sector Transformation) and Bayanihang Pampaaralan: One for Bohol Education!” at the San Miguel Central Elementary School where some students, teachers and school officials shared their experiences and hopes for the building of their new classrooms. (Read…
The Australian government, the Department of Education (DepEd) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) are working together to build schools in Bohol. The BEST program steps up PBSP’s Bayanihang Pampaaralan campaign through an A$15million funding for the construction of 252 classrooms in Bicol, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao and Metro Manila, with potential to grow in the…
