Advocacies

Canadian Manufacturing marks its 60th anniversary with a partnership with Haribon Foundation for the launch of its new Bamboo Cotton Collection. Canadian's Get a Sheet, Adopt a Tree campaign, which supports Haribon's Adopt-a-Seedling program, encourages consumers to take part in bringing back the beauty of the country by helping rebuild its lost biodiversity. Canadian provides the best linen and...

Ayala Foundation and Microsoft Philippines recently launched CodeIT, a digital education project which aims to equip underserved Filipino youth with basic technology and computer science training. Present in the event were (L-R) Romualdo Katigbak, Chief Finance Officer, Ayala Foundation Inc; Joanna O. Duarte, Senior Director, Ayala Foundation Inc.; Vivien V. Reyes, Chief Information Officer, Ayala Foundation Inc.; Jaime Zobel...

Feed2Succeed, the organization started by three teen-age girls by fundraising through a yard sale on the corner of Third and Kenmore in Koreatown, Los Angeles to feed undernourished children in Busiing Elementary School in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, was named first place at the recent Epic Youth Leadership Awards (EYLA) held at the Google Campus in Sunnyvale, California. The...

International NGO named HWPL and civil society groups in cooperation opens a global advocacy movement of peace with the concept of sending “Peace Letters to National Leaders in 193 countries” on March 14 in 83 major cities around the world such as New York, Delhi, Frankfurt, Sydney, Cape Town, Istanbul, Seoul, Tokyo, and London and the Philippines. This event is...

Cement maker Holcim Philippines, Inc. directly helped over 350,000 in 2018 through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that are designed to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN). The summary of Holcim Philippines’s 2018 Stakeholder Engagement Plan showed that its CSR programs called Holcim Helps assisted 356,917 individuals in 2018. With this, the...

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is investing Php 10 million for its rehabilitation efforts in its adopted wetland in Boracay island. Its adopted 7.79-hectare Wetland No. 2 is one of the nine wetlands in the island identified by the DENR where environmental rehabilitation is needed. Just southwest of Diniwid beach, it is a brackish water swamp that has been...

Integrated Nutrition and Health Actions in the First 1,000 Days of Life Program to benefit 40,000 children under-5 and 57,000 pregnant/lactating women in Samar, Northern Samar and Zamboanga del Norte. Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and UN children’s agency UNICEF, in partnership with the Department of Health and National Nutrition Council, launch an integrated nutrition and health program targeting the...

A large-scale memorial ceremony was hosted by the Human Rights Association for Victims of Coercive Conversion Programs (HAC) on January 7, 2019 engaging different schools in Cavite, marking the first death anniversary of the young Korean lady named Gu Ji In, a victim of forceful conversion. Thousands of students from Imus National High School and Paliparan III Senior High School...

Environment advocates are calling for a two-pronged approach to address the nationwide problem on waste. Greenpeace Philippines and Break Free From Plastic Movement said a legislation banning single-use plastics should be passed as these are mostly thrown away afterwards -- polluting the environment & increasing volume of waste for disposal. In a press conference in Quezon City Tuesday, Greenpeace campaigner Abigail...

On February 8, a grand peace festival entitled “We are one for Peace to attain Sustainable Development” at the Philippine Sports Stadium, Bulacan, will be held to launch nationwide peace movement throughout the country’s State Universities and Colleges. This event is expected to have 30,000 participants including social representatives in the Philippines and international peace activists including the organizers...