Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven Robinson AO recently travelled to Lambunao in Iloilo to visit the classrooms built at the Don Eugenio Ladrido Memorial Elementary School (DELMES) in 2015 through the support of the Australian Embassy in partnership with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP). Mr. Robinson is the first ambassador from any country…
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…
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…
For the first time, a 300-meter swim for young swimmers aged 11 to 13 will be included in the 12th Olango Challenge, the country’s premier open-water swimming event in Pacific Cebu Resort, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu. The Olango Challenge is an open-water swimming event jointly organized by Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and Philippine Swimming,…
Two years after Marawi had been besieged by the Maute Group, there are still thousands of families living in tent cities. Those who returned to their homes live among the ruins, lacking in funds and livelihood to rebuild. Project Marawi Tibayanihan aims to train a crew of skilled workers to help rebuild their city. It…
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…
