Last October, Berjaya conglomerate founder and chair Tan Sri Dato Seri Vincent Tan pledged to help improve Filipino lives. True to his word, the Berjaya Group, through the Berjaya Philippines Group of Companies, has donated P44 million to Gawad Kalinga to help build more GK communities across the country.
Who doesn’t love a good bubbly, dahlings? I know I do!
For someone who wears costumes all year around, I’ve come to regard Halloween as an ordinary occasion. But I still look forward to doing some tricks and giving treats to all the kids.
When Ambassador Jose Cuisia arrived in Washington, he observed that most of the Filipino-American communities he encountered had a mature demographic. There was little participation from the youth in Philippine affairs.
“God has truly blessed my fashion career, perhaps because my life partner Edgar Medina and I have remained prayerful and obedient to His will,” said Eddie Baddeo. “And that is to share the talent I have borrowed and love doing by giving daily thanks to God and my clients.”
The PGH Medical Foundation recently sponsored a symposium on giving back with noted columnist Winnie Monsod as guest speaker. Here is how we Class 1962 (106 graduates, 87 alive) have measured up to this challenge.
How do you define “extreme” in the most explosive, home-building sense of the word? This is how TV5 defines it: For the season-ender of “Extreme Makeover Home Edition Philippines,” or EMHEP as we have come to know it on Twitter, the show is unveiling not just one new home for a deserving family, but 28 houses for an entire community!
Social enterprise, sustainable fashion, green movement, nationalism—these are concepts and ideologies that were once seen as extreme and exclusive to tree-hugging movements.
A walk through the village of the English bard in Stratford inspired this piece. Shakespeare is as relevant today as he was in his time, in our search for love in a world where people have grown cold and the climate is becoming abnormally and dangerously warm.
TODAY, I want to write about a ball. But not that ball yet. This week, I want to write about the Gawad Kalinga (GK) Hope Ball.
Rising gradually on 14 hectares of verdant, undulating terrain is a farm, home, village and “university” rolled into one, where people’s dreams and ideas are put to the test, nurtured and turned into reality. Gawad Kalinga’s (GK) Enchanted Farm in Barangay (village) Encanto in Angat, Bulacan is, as its name and location suggest, a special [...]
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