After a 2-year hiatus, De La Salle University’s Council of Student Organizations (CSO) brings back its annual event TUKLAS, Towards Uplifting Knowledge and Leadership Advancement Series. TUKLAS is a three-day webinar series that puts in motion an effort to educate members of Generation Z, being the next set of leaders, through imparting values and lessons […]
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To mark its 12th year, the Geodetic Engineering Student Conference (GESC) goes online with the theme “Burgeon: Emergence of Geodetic Engineering and Science in the 21st Century.” First launched by UP Geodetic Engineering Club in 2009, the GESC is an annual gathering of Geodetic Engineering students from across the Philippines. GESC 2021 introduces young and […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) is stepping up its Covid-19 pandemic assistance by allocating close to P10 million worth of relief goods to cities and provinces in the NCR Plus bubble, a Church official said on April 18, 2021. INC’s humanitarian drive, under its Lingap sa Mamamayan program, will distribute “goody bags” to densely populated […]
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is spending close to a billion pesos for a program to vaccinate all its 70,000 employees and extended workforce for free and help the country in its effort to build a collective defense against COVID-19, which has claimed millions of lives worldwide. The company has secured COVID-19 vaccine doses from various […]
In response to the urgent need to replenish the blood supply at the Philippine Red Cross–and contribute to the treatment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients–San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has launched a quarterly blood and convalescent plasma donation drive across its facilities nationwide. SMC, which is marking its 130th anniversary, is the first private company in […]
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) said it has completed providing life insurance coverage to about 5,000 medical frontliners from 18 hospitals across Cebu, who are now insured for P2 million each. “We started this initiative several months ago, at the height of COVID-19 cases in Cebu, when our medical front liners there were really having a […]
“Climate change and the collapse of ecosystems are threats whose impact is likely to far outweigh even a pandemic,” said Joan Gregerson, Writer, Founder of Green Team Academy. “We need to act boldly and quickly for system-wide transformative change and we don’t have time to waste.”Environmental issues such as pollution and lack of access to […]
THE BEST IN PEOPLE
“There is no place like home” – a common sentiment during these unusual and challenging times when a number of people find themselves away from their families – frontliners whose jobs require them to be away from home, and workers from out-of-town who unexpectedly find themselves stranded with the implementation of the quarantine. While I, too, […]
WHEN WORDS HEAL
Imagine a young nurse, cool and tip-top in a white scrub suit, surveying her anxious household before waving goodbye — generously, unflinchingly. Imagine that from an island barangay southeast of Manila, she heads into the mainland hospital wary of the unseen that this pandemic has brought every doorstep worldwide. Imagine that outside her house she is […]
Unprecedented, trying, uncertain times. The COVID-19 pandemic and the drastic changes it is bringing with it at its wake are described in bold statements but often through an impersonal, third-person point of view. For frontline workers and those who are allowed to work outside, however, the present realities are far from being impersonal. Not when you […]