Metro Cebu’s water supply will only last until 2030, claims the report of the Dutch-funded Central Cebu Water Resources Management through Integrated Development (Water REMIND) Project. Majority of the Metro Cebu’s 658,000 households are dirt-poor—so, access to sufficient and potable water for a better quality of life becomes a life-and-death struggle for the poor. Food…

     The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) unites with Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation (PDRF) in saving the Marikina Watershed. To rehabilitate the watershed and mitigate the threat of future flooding,  PDRF launched a multi-sectoral campaign that aims to reforest additional 34 per cent or 9,520 hectares of the degrad ed areas.   Since 2010,…

Brother International teamed up with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to reforest the denuded Marikina Watershed through Adopt a Hectare tree planting activity. A total of 625 Cupang, Macopa and Dungon seedlings were planted in Barangay Calawis, Antipolo City with the help of 36 employee volunteers. Brother International has been supporting the Save…

CEBU CITY, Philippines – In a bid to not only finance the construction of houses, the Home Mutual Development Fund (Pag-IBIG) has announced that it has turned over a spring box water system to upland farmers in Barangay Tabunan, Cebu City.

“As a financial and housing institution, we always stress how we maximize our efforts of completing a home by not only providing affordable shelter to our less-privileged communities,” said Pag-IBIG Fund Cebu Branch Manager III Rio Teves.

Teves — along with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) Visayas Executive Committee Member Rogelio Lim, PBSP Senior Program Officer Olivia Jabido, members of the Sayaw Farmers Association, and 48 Grade 6 pupils of Cantipla Integrated School — attended the turnover last Dec. 2.

Tech icon IBM recently turned over its ‘Community Grant’ to the social development foundation Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in support of IBM’s environmental sustainability programs operated in the country. “We are grateful to our member and trusted partner — IBM and the IBMers who participated in the Blue Mangrove reforestation project. Awarding PBSP…

MANILA— Movement to reforest the denuded areas of the Marikina Watershed took another step forward through Adopt-a-Hectare Tree Planting Activity in Sitio Binayoyo, Barangay Calawis, Antipolo City.

Filipino-owned freight forwarding company, All Transport Network (ATN) teamed up with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the biggest corporate-led foundation, in a long-term program to transform the degrading forest of the Marikina Watershed areas into a densely green landscape.

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) held a more proactive greening event this 2011 through its annual tree planting activity in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

MANILA — One firm empowers waste hauling trucks running on used vegetable oil, while another converts its shampoo sachets and detergent bar wrappers from plastic wastes into cement pavements.

Others recycle used rubber tires or lead acid batteries to fund their various education projects, such as donation of books or building of classrooms in public schools.